Senior Java Engineer

About the client - The client is a company in the food ordering/delivery field.

Responsibilities:

• You'll gain expertise in your domain and build highly scalable & reliable additions to our platform
• You'll be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring the performance of your applications and the platform as a whole
• You'll evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members
• You'll write performant and concise code to meet the defined standards, review the code of peers, and ensure security and scalability of the features you work on
• You'll help to create the backlog of tech debt and features, suggesting areas for improvement and enhancement
• You'll actively work with other team members in the domain and be a team player

Requirements:

• 7+ years experience with Java and building highly-scalable consumer-facing applications
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault tolerant, and performant software with emphasis on future evolution
• Experience with complex systems composed of multiple components spread across the network
• AWS experience, or similar cloud based offerings
• Automated testing experience applicable for services (junit/testing, mockito + jmeter/ gattlin.io)
• Strong fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)
• Experience developing highly-available distributed systems (4x9's uptime etc.)
• Building observability as part of the application
• Experience modeling system resource requirements as system load changes
• Interest in working for a fast paced, product oriented tech company
• Distributed database experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL database experience preferred
• Docker, or similar containerized solutions
• CI / CD tools experience like Gradle, Jenkins, or similar technologies
• Experience as an individual contributor, i.e. time prioritization, self-management, and working within and across teams to drive results
• Dedication to improving the customer experience and designing systems to avoid poor customer experience during outages and guarantee the availability of services
• Passion for challenging the status quo, understanding new things, and solving problems in creative and unconventional ways
• A sense of accountability for developed software and ownership of upstream and downstream dependency

Additional information

• Work with some of the most dynamic US tech companies, building and iterating on new features and platforms.
• Long-term projects with real technical challenges.
• Fully remote work with flexible hours.
• Collaboration flexibility: We work with B2B (PFA/SRL) contracts.
• 30 paid days off per year.
• We provide equipment as needed (laptop, desktop, etc.).
• Continuous learning: We sponsor career-improving courses, seminars, and certifications.
• Opportunity for annual business visits to the US, depending on project needs.