About the role

  • You are efficient with resource usage (e.g., system hardware, database, memory/CPU, etc.).
  • You own parts of product and technology & strive to become a subject matter expert.
  • You write simple and extendable code following standards and best practices.
  • You test your code thoroughly.
  • You help balance customer requirements with the team requirements.
  • You help your team evolve by actively participating in the code review process, design discussions, team planning, and support ticket reviews.
  • You take on projects and make software enhancements that improve the team software and processes.
  • You work to resolve the root cause of complex problems, leaving software better and easier to maintain than when you found it.
  • You estimate stories/tasks accurately and deliver them in time.
  • You keep yourself up to date with industry tools, utilities, and open-source frameworks.
  • You write technical documentation that shares knowledge effectively.
  • You mentor and provide guidance to junior colleagues.
  • Most importantly, you are humble, pragmatic, self-managed, thirsty for knowledge, never satisfied and always challenging the norm.
  • Responsible for the state of the code you both inherit and produce.

Requirements

  • Proven experience writing distributed, highly scalable, and available backend systems & APIs using Java SE and/or Java EE: beans, concurrency, transactions, I/O, servlets, messaging, application monitoring, ORM (Hibernate, JPA)
  • Knowledge of release process best practices for APIs and services within production systems - build tools (e.g. BuildKite, Maven, Gradle), version control (e.g. git) and continuous integration systems (e.g. Jenkins).
  • Experience working with cloud-based infrastructure and technologies, preferably AWS.
  • A fundamental understanding of data structures and algorithms.
  • Hands-on experience with unit testing/mocking frameworks (e.g. junit, mockito).
  • Strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive.
  • Demonstrated abilities driving operational excellence and software best practices.
  • Experience with testing concepts, test tools, and integrating testing and best practices in the SDLC
  • Desire to learn and develop your skills through a growth mindset
  • Passion for working within a fast-paced environment and can adapt to change
  • Experience with using AI coding assistants and agentic models such as CoPilot, Cursor in a business setting (Desirable)
  • Exposure to Linux operating systems (Desirable)
  • Experience using non-relational databases (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, Couchbase) (Desirable)
  • Familiarity with AWS / Cloud Computing (e.g. S3, SQS, SNS) (Desirable)
  • Experience with analysis & monitoring tools (e.g. DataDog, NewRelic) (Desirable)
  • Contact with messaging technologies (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka) (Desirable)
  • Container experience (e.g. Docker) (Desirable)
  • Knowledge of caching systems (e.g. Redis) (Desirable)
  • Understanding of the full development cycle and some experience of Agile development methodologies and supporting tools e.g. JIRA, Confluence (Desirable)

Benefits

  • Hybrid & remote working options
  • €1,000 per year for self-development
  • Company share scheme
  • 25 days of annual leave per year
  • 20 days per year to work abroad
  • 5 personal days/year
  • Flexible benefits: travel, sports, hobbies
  • Extended health, dental and travel insurances
  • Customized well-being programmes
  • Career growth sessions
  • Thousands of online courses through Udemy
  • A variety of engaging office events

Job title

Senior Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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