Senior 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 9 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!

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.

Qualifications

Must have

• 6+ years of experience with Java and Spring framework;
• You are able to understand full architecture landscape and be able technically to investigate and implement new features independently
• Being responsible for the quality of the solution you deliver is natural for you. You have experience with unit-testing and Test-Driven Development;
• Experience with DevOps tools and practices (container orchestration, CI, monitoring and alerting, AWS & Kubernetes)
• Interested in growing as a software engineer participating in the whole development cycle (frontend, backend, testing, DevOps)
• You are able mentor less experience colleagues, structure and clarify requirements for them;
• Empathetic and able to easily build relationships
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience working within Agile practices and knowledge of Agile values & principles
• Experience working with Microservices
• Experience in e-commerce domain

Your responsibilities

• Participate in solution investigation, estimations, planning, alignment with other teams;
• Design, implement, deliver and support backend solutions (restful webservices) using micro-services architecture
• Work in close collaboration with other teams to integrate their solutions in Checkout flow
• Promote and implement tests automation (e.g: unit tests, integration tests, e2e tests and performance tests)
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration, development, 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 activities such as code reviews, pair programming, knowledge sharing, and incident coordination.
• Maintain existing applications and reduce technical debt