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Romania Remote Java

Expert Java Developer

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Description

Ciklum is looking for an Expert Java Developer to join our team full-time in Romania.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As an Expert Java Developer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

Our customer is transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. They are the leading developer data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity.

Their Professional Services (PS) works with customers of all shapes and sizes, in all verticals, from tier-1 banks to small web startups, on a variety of exciting use cases. This role solves technically sophisticated problems, gains incredible cross-stack experience, works with top- notch people in the business, networks with industry leaders, and sees new places – all in a day’s work!

PS exists to support the development of their customers’ vision, accelerate customers’ time to value, and drive a multitude of customer adoption scenarios – from building new solutions to modernizing legacy applications or migrating to cloud.

Work as a software developer in a small Agile team delivering solutions onsite for customers focussed on migrating their customers’ legacy relational-based Java applications to a more modern cloud-based architecture running on MongoDB, leveraging the latest GenAI tools and approaches to accelerate this process. During each project, successful candidates will be required to innovate on potential new GenAI-based solutions for specific challenges in addition to applying existing playbooks and tooling for migration.

Responsibilities

  • Be open to adopting new technologies and approaches on projects as they evolve, especially those relating to GenAI advancements
  • Stay at the forefront of the industry by staying abreast of the latest GenAI advancements and leveraging cutting-edge developments to fulfill migration projects
  • Participates as a software developer on small Agile teams, delivering software-based solutions for migrating and modernizing customer legacy applications to MongoDB
  • Follow existing best practice migration playbooks where applicable and be prepared to innovate to fill in gaps with creative solutions to solve challenges on each specific project
  • Actively participate in sprint grooming, planning, and showcases with ideas and suggestions
  • Take direction from the technical lead and project manager on projects, raising identified challenges and potential solutions to the team when applicable
  • Study the current state of each legacy application and the desired target state outlined by the customer and contribute to the planning, design, and solution from getting from source state to target state on each project
  • Be prepared to change project direction if customer or account team priorities change

Requirements

  • 7+ years’ of experience working as a software developer
  • Strong proficiency in Java
  • Strong experience in building applications that interact with relational databases using SQL
  • Some experience of Enterprise Java (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring) application architectures 
  • History of delivering high-cadence modern applications with applied Agile methodologies, test-first development approaches, adopting CI/CD pipelines and using Git version control

Desirable

  • Working knowledge of microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design approaches
  • Some experience and knowledge of Python
  • Some experience and knowledge of JavaScript/Node.js
  • Some experience and knowledge of ORMs like Hibernate or JPA

Extra bonus skills (if missing, we will provide rapid onboarding enablement on these):

  • Some experience in nascent GenAI technologies and approaches, such as using OpenAI API with GPT LLMs
  • Practical experience of using MongoDB

What's in it for you

  • Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance and Mental Health programs. We also provide you with meal vouchers to fuel your mind and body
  • Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Pluralsight licenses, language courses and company-paid certifications
  • Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
  • Flexibility: Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just don’t miss your regular team stand-up  
  • Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them
  • Our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfill your potential
  • Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
  • Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events

About us:
Seize global opportunities by working with us! 
Enjoy our robust experience in various domains, a caring attitude and incredible team spirit. 
Together we will grow our business in Romania and globally!

Be bold, not bored!

Experiences of tomorrow. Engineered together

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We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. Can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.

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