Senior Java Back-end Engineer

On behalf of our client, an award-winning insurance company with international expansion, we are looking for an experienced Senior Java Back-end Engineer to join their highly empowered team of dynamic and talented professionals. The company is based in Athens but you will have the opportunity to work on a 100% remote basis!

A day in the life of a ‘Senior Java Back-end Engineer’

You will be a valuable member of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications, utilizing emerging technologies and trends. Υour role includes Java application development while being present to the full software development life-cycle, from concept to design and testing. The ecosystem is based on a service oriented architecture, Spring Boot microservices dockerized on AWS Kubernetes.

 Your day-to-day

• Build advanced back end applications and develop software programs on the Java platform
• Optimize applications performance and recommend software upgrades for existing systems
• Contribute in all phases of the development life-cycle, prepare and produce releases of software components
• Monitor and improve application reliability and present innovative ideas for system improvements
• Produce detailed specifications and implement the program codes accordingly
• Follow test driven development through continuous integration and agile methodologies

What you will need

Software Engineering/Development using Java as the main programming language (Spring Boot) with at least 5 years of experience in the languages specified below as required.

Strong understanding of below concepts:

• SOLID Principles - Clean Architecture/Clean code practices.
• Microservices Architecture - REST
• CI/CD - Unit Testing

Required experience with the technologies below:

• Spring Boot and Spring Cloud latest features
• AMQP - RabbitMQ
• PostgreSQL or any other database

Nice to have experience with the technologies below:

• Gitlab-CI
• Maven
• Kubernetes
• MongoDB
• S3 (AWS)
• Redis

We love your personality if you

• have excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills
• like to contribute to a positive team environment
• are organized and methodical
• have a growth mind-set

What’s in it for you

You will have the opportunity to work in a motivating and multicultural environment working on a global scale projects and using latest technologies. Additionally, you will enjoy the following benefits:

• Attractive remuneration package plus performance related reward
• Private health insurance
• Intellectually stimulating work environment
• Customized training plan