Backend Software Engineer

Senior Backend Software

As our Senior Backend Software Engineer and QA expert:

• with your Team and Product Owner, you will work in a challenging Agile environment in close collaboration with other teams.
• you will participate in the team’s technical/architectural discussions and decisions.
• you will develop and continuously deliver applications for one of the most successful pet e-commerce platforms in Europe.
• you will participate in the complete software development life cycle from discovery through coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
• daily, you will learn and grow your skills, striving for mastery using state-of-the-art technologies and practices such as AWS, Microservices, Docker and much more!
• Assess, define, implement and maintain, with the support of the team and of the QA Center of Practice team, the testing approach toward complete automated testing and continuous validation of your applications.

Requirements:

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills

• 6+ years of experience with Java 11+ and Spring framework

• TDD/BDD practical experience.

• 2+ years of working within Agile practices and knowledge of Agile values & principles.

• Focus on automated testing and good experience with different levels of tests (unit tests, integration tests, end-to-end tests)

• Passionate about writing clean, modular, testable code designed with architectural principles in mind and proper use of design patterns

• Experience with DevOps tools and practices (container orchestration, CI, monitoring and alerting, AWS & Kubernetes)

• Experience working with Microservices.

• Experience with relational/non-relational databases.

• Ready to work with on-call duties - approximately 1 week on call every 8 weeks.

Nice to have

• Experience integrating with Klarna

• Recent and hands-on experience with end-to-end payment processes and systems and integration with PayPal via providers, especially Adyen

• Understanding frontend technologies like React, NPM, Javascript, and Angular is a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in solution investigation, estimations, planning, and alignment with other teams;

• Design, implement, deliver and support backend solutions (restful web services) using micro-services architecture.

• Work in close collaboration with QA CoP (Center of Practice) teams to integrate quality assurance tooling and processes within your team’s application.

• Promote and implement test automation (e.g: unit tests, integration tests, e2e tests and performance tests)

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, development, testing and deployment.

• Deploy applications on the cloud using technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, AWS and Terraform.

• Work closely with the team in an agile and collaborative environment. This will involve code reviews, pair programming, knowledge sharing, and incident coordination.

• Maintain existing applications and reduce technical debt.

Technologies we leverage:

• Kotlin, Java 11+, Spring framework (Boot, Hibernate)

• Oracle, PostgreSQL

• CI/CD with Jenkins pipeline

• InfluxDB, Grafana, Sensu, ELK stack

• infrastructure as a code, one-click deployment, C4 diagrams

• Mesos/Marathon, Docker, Kubernetes

• Amazon Web Services and cloud deployments (S3, SNS, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.), using tools such as Terraform or AWS CLI

• Git, Scrum, Pair Programming, Peer Reviewing