Senior Java Developer

Description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Java Developer to join our team full-time in Poland.

We are a leading global product engineering and digital services company that unites 4000+ seasoned professionals globally on various projects in healthcare, fintech, travel, sportswear, entertainment, and security. Ciklum delivers high-impact technology solutions to Fortune 500 and fast-growing organisations worldwide.

About the role:
As a Senior Java Developer, become a part of a cross-functional development team working for our Client.

Project description:

Our client is one of the UK’s leading fintech scale-ups. We are looking for a number of software engineers to join our rapidly expanding technology team. You will be part of a scaling business in a high-quality team that is working on new products and features while solving interesting technical challenges. In this role, you will work in a cross-functional co-located team who are asked to solve a problem, rather than handed a task to do. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a high-growth environment with a fast-paced and collaborative culture where you will have access to the latest technologies.

About the Client:

Our client is a payments business providing API-based solutions for commercial and wholesale customers. Client’s customers include neobanks, crypto platforms, travel companies and payroll/accountancy software providers. Businesses no longer tolerate the slow and costly infrastructure provided by legacy institutions – with client’s services, businesses can eliminate historic hidden inefficiencies and build fast-to-market products on top of our award-winning.

Responsibilities

• Back-end development to meet customer’s business needs and implement components according to modern software development environment (cloud-based platforms, microservice architecture, etc.)
• Taking part in the decision-making process in design application architecture, solution development, architecture and code review
• Developing and reviewing feature design documents and providing inputs/updates to specifications for the solution
• Designing and implementing a set of various types of tests (unit, integration, functional, etc)
• Communicating with PMs, engineers, Architects, QA and other colleagues and stakeholders
• Delivering the product roadmap and plannings
• Using high coding standards, software best practices and writing highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC

Requirements

• Experience in software development for 5+ years
• Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:
  • Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID, DDD, TDD, BDD)
  • Database theory (RDBMS, NoSQL)
  • Code testing practices
  • Algorithms
  • Data structures
  • Architectural, Enterprise and Design Patterns
  • Security patterns, Reverse engineering resistance, Common attacks types (OWASP)
• Understanding of network interactions:
  • protocols
  • conventions (e.g. REST, RPC)
  • authentication and authorization flows
  • standards and practices (e.g. oAuth, JWT)
• Excellent knowledge and 3+ years experience in Java (ideally Java 11)
• Practical commercial experience with:
  • REST API development
  • Web application frameworks (e.g. Spring Boot Framework) (2+ years)
  • Testing frameworks (e.g.g. JUnit, PowerMock, WiresMock) (2+ years)
  • Java-related Open Source technologies, such as Spring and Hibernate
  • RDBMS (e.g MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle) (2+ years)
  • Key-value storages (e.g. Redis, Memcached)
  • Messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Active MQ, AWS SQS, Azure Service Bus, Google Pub/Sub)
  • Web Servers
  • Version control systems (GIT)
  • Cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure)
  • Docker
  • Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)
  • Builders
  • Experience with micro-services using SpringBoot or similar
  • Strong understanding of OOP and design patterns
• Experience with:
  • Troubleshooting, profiling and debugging applications
  • Creation of software architecture and design of complex applications, platforms, microservices solutions
  • Agile software processes and technologies
  • Code Review process
  • Refactoring process
  • Experience in building a high-performance services-based platform
• Fluent or Upper-Intermediate English

You can:

• Perform a broad range of complex technical or professional activities, in a variety of contexts. Investigate, define and resolve complex issues
• Work in distributed cross-functional teams in an Agile environment
• Influence customers and team members on the project level
• Supervise others or make decisions that impact the work assigned to individuals or phases of projects

Desirable

• Certifications on:
  • Java
  • Spring Frameworks
  • Cloud computing platforms (AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure)
• Understanding of orchestration and containerization (e.g. Kubernetes, Swarm)
• Knowledge in Deployment patterns
• Practical commercial experience with:
  • Serverless architecture
  • Integration with 3rd party solutions
  • NoSQL (e.g. MongoDB, ElasticSearch, CouchDB)
  • Experience with Search Engines (e.g. ElasticSearch, Azure Search, Apache Solr)
  • Provisioning tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
  • Quality tools (e.g. SonarQube)

What's in it for you

• Close cooperation with the client
• A constant flow of new projects
• Ability to influence project technologies
• Projects from scratch
• Realization of your innovative ideas in building new Ciklum Solutions and Services
• Friendly collaborative teams and enjoyable working environment
• Professional skills development and training programs
• Variety of knowledge sharing, training and self-development opportunities
• State of the art, cool, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere which creates really good working conditions Gdansk or Wroclaw
• Work from home/100% remote
• Private medical healthcare fully covered by Ciklum with a possibility to cover family members
• Fully covered life insurance – 100 000 PLN
• Fully covered drug insurance – up to 2 000 PLN/year
• Multisport card 100% covered by Ciklum – Benefit System, Plus package
• Parking space 50% covered by Ciklum

Be bold, not bored!

Are you already interested? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.