Senior software engineer

Sr. Software Engineer

POSITION DESCRIPTION & BUSINESS PRIORITIES

Job contents (responsibilities, tasks, amount of travel)

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS 

 Work as part of an Agile development team, taking ownership for one or more services.

 Take ownership of features and epics, working as part of a team – ensuring excellence in design,

code, test and operation

 A willingness to embrace change and foster a Growth and Learning culture on the team.

 Mentoring team members through code review, design reviews

 Work with product owners to help refine the backlog, breaking down features and epics into

executable stories.

 Have a high quality software mindset – making sure that the code you write works.

QUALIFICATIONS 

Education: 

 Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in computer science or equivalent.  

Mandatory Skills: 

 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience 

 Recent experience in Java 

 Experience in developing REST services. 

 Experience in unit test frameworks. 

 Ability to provide solutions based on the business requirements. 

 Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams. 

 Ability to work with global teams and a flexible work schedule. 

 Must have excellent problem-solving skills and be customer centric. 

 Excellent communication skills. 

Preferred Skills: 

 Experience with Microservices, CI/CD, Event Oriented Architectures and Distributed Systems 

 Experience with cloud environments (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Amazon Web Services,

etc.) 

 Familiarity with web technologies (e,g,, JavaScript, HTML, CSS), data manipulation (e.g., SQL), and

version control systems (e.g., GitHub) 

 Familiarity with DevOps practices/principles, Agile/Scrum methodologies, CI/CD pipelines and the

product development lifecycle 

 Familiarity with modern web APIs and full stack frameworks. 

 Experience with Java, Elastic Search, Kubernetes, Spring, Spring Boot,  

 Experience developing eCommerce systems – especially B2B eCommerce – is a plus.