Senior Backend Developer

About the Project

Our project is a commercial insurance pricing tool for medium to large-sized companies. It is built on a microservice architecture using Java, Kotlin, Spring on the backend, and Angular, NodeJS, Express, Fastify on the frontend. It allows the user to capture all necessary exposure data, apply advanced terms and conditions, value the risks and calculate the cost of the policy. In addition, we use a central data store on PostgresDB to meet the client’s specific reporting needs.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, implementing, performing unit tests and document large, complex software applications based on REST microservices with Kotlin, Java, Spring, and Junit 
• Collaborating within an Agile development team throughout the entire SDLC 
• Ensuring development best practices such as code quality, scalability, and maintainability 
• Monitoring product quality, ensure proper code validation and design patterns.  
• Encouraging technical discussions within the team aiming continuous product improvement 
• Actively collaborating with multinational teams within PO, Business Analysts, internal and client-side developers across Europe, providing full support and defining deadlines 
• Actively communicating with stakeholders from different hierarchies' levels and diverse backgrounds, understanding projects’ environment, obstacles and identifying possible solutions, demonstrating analytical and problem-solving skills

Your Skills and Your Experience

• Bachelor's or master's degree in an IT-related field or an equivalent practical track record 
• Proficiency in English (minimum B2 level) 
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle 

• Solid hands-on work experience with Java, Spring and SQL. 
• Experience or willingness to work with Kotlin 
• Experience in building distributed systems and microservices, knowledge of typical patterns and service integration issues 
• Experience in designing REST services 
• Proven experience working with relational databases 
• Commitment to product quality, knowledge of testing approaches, code verification and analysis, and design patterns  
• Strong analytical capabilities   
• Ability to abstract complex problems and break them down into meaningful, well-planned steps  
• Ability to communicate with stakeholders on different hierarchical levels and with diverse backgrounds 
• Proactive, reliable and self-driven team player 
• Service-orientation with a strong focus on customer satisfaction 

Nice to have 

• Experience with NoSQL and MongoDB is a plus 
• Experience in proof-of-concept projects  
• Experience with warehouse optimization for growing application load, data collection acceleration, and aggregation for analytics