Senior 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.