Java Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join our Checkout Team and bring to life new features and support the move of Checkout products to modern architecture. You will be working closely with Product Owner, Area Architect and your team members clarifying business needs and technical requirements and defining how to support them in the best way. In close collaboration with other teams, your team will introduce new features and improvements for Checkout process to provide better experience for more than 11 millions of our customers!

As our Senior Backend Software Engineer:

• with your Team and Product Owner, you will be working in a challenging Agile environment in close collaboration with other teams;
• you will participate in 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;
• on daily basis 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!

Project Overview:

• At the Checkout team, our primary responsibility is to manage the process of customers purchasing products from our shops. This includes overseeing the addition of items to the shopping cart, collecting shipping, and billing information, and facilitating the payment process. Our system is responsible for calculating the total cost of an order, based on the prices of the items in the cart, and any applicable discounts, promotions, and fees. We play a crucial role in the shopping process, as we handle the final steps of the shopping experience and ensure that orders are placed successfully.

Requirements:

• Qualifications
• Must have
• 6+ years of experience with Java 11+ and Spring framework.
• You can understand the architectural landscape and technically investigate and implement new features independently.
• Strong experience with DevOps tools and practices (container orchestration, CI, monitoring and alerting, AWS & Kubernetes)
• Experience working within Agile practices and knowledge of Agile values & principles.
• Experience working with Microservices.
• Eagerness to expand skill set and collaborate with frontend teams
• Good English verbal and written communication skills.
• Nice to have
• Experience in e-commerce domain

Responsibilities:

• Your 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Why this position:

• Here are several aspects of our team and work environment that contributes to a positive and fulfilling experience:
• We work in self-organized teams following Scrum methodology, respecting and valuing everyone´s opinion.
• We learn from each other and share knowledge, through pair programming, code reviews, and many training opportunities.
• We deliver value by developing new features, maintaining existing products and improving all the infrastructure we need for it, so we also would like to have a colleague that likes to be cross-functional.
• We are committed to delivering high-quality products, and believe that continuous delivery, clean code, and a DevOps mindset are key to achieving this goal
• Our team values a friendly and collaborative environment, and we greatly encourage open communication and teamwork. We believe in a team approach and do not assign blame, instead working together to build and maintain the system.
• We embrace diversity, having colleagues from over 50 countries. This means our working language is English.
• These are some of the technologies/frameworks/practices we use:
• Java 11+, Spring framework (Boot, Hibernate, MVC)
• Oracle, PostgreSQL
• CI/CD with Jenkins pipeline
• AWS and Terraform
• infrastructure as a code, one-click deployment, C4 diagrams
• 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
• InfluxDB, Kibana, Grafana, Sensu, ELK and prometheus