Back-End Engineer

Your Technical Skills Should Include

Academic qualification in a computer science or STEM (science, technology, engineering

or mathematics) related field or the foreign equivalent

Professional experience working in an agile, dynamic and customer facing environment

At least 6 years of recent hands-on professional experience (actively coding) working as

a back-end software engineer

Extensive experience with using a JVM language (Java/Scala/Kotlin, preferably Java 8+)

Understanding of distributed systems and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)

Understanding of AOP and dependency injection frameworks (Spring / SpringBoot,

Guice, etc.)

Understanding of microservices architecture

Understanding of RESTful APIs and web technologies

Understanding of relational and no-SQL databases

Desired understanding of security frameworks (Spring Security, SSL, TLS, HTTPS, etc.)

Desired understanding of data streaming and processing frameworks (Kafka, Spark,

etc.)

Desired understanding of distributed tracing and monitoring (Zipkin, OpenTracing,

Prometheus, ELK stack, Micrometer metrics, etc.)

Desired experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)

Experience in the all stages of software development lifecycle (requirements, design,

architecture, development, testing, deployment, release and support)

Experience in automating deployment, releases and testing in continuous integration,

continuous delivery pipelines

A solid approach to writing unit level tests using mocking frameworks, as well as

automating integration and end-to-end tests

Your Soft Skills Should Include

Experienced mentor with the ability to work in a collaborative environment and coach

other team members on coding practices, design principles, and implementation

patterns that lead to high-quality maintainable solutions.

Ability to work in a dynamic, agile environment within a geographically distributed team

Ability to focus on promptly addressing customer needs

Technically curious, versatile and solution oriented

Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English