Senior Backend Developer

About the Project

You are part of an agile team and build underwriting tools for a global underwriter community. The tools incorporate the two central parts of our client’s value chain: they transparently model the underwriting process and combine it with the actual pricing. We use a micro-service architecture, with Java, Kotlin, Spring, Kafka on the backend, and Angular, NodeJS, Express, Fastify on the frontend.  

What you'll be doing

• Design and implement complex software applications based on REST microservices with Kotlin, Java, Spring, and Junit  
• Ensure development best practices such as code quality, scalability, and maintainability incl. unit tests and documentation 
• Monitor product quality, ensure proper code validation and design patterns.   
• Actively collaborate  

• within an Agile development team throughout the entire software development lifecycle 
• with multinational teams within PO, Business Analysts, internal and client-side developers across Europe, provide full support, agree and meet deadlines  
• with stakeholders from different hierarchy levels and diverse backgrounds, understand project’s environment, obstacles and identify possible solutions, demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills 

• Encourage technical discussions within the team aiming relentless product improvement 

Your Skills and Your Experience

• Strong motivation to jointly design & build IT tools useful for the client  
• Bachelor's or master's degree in an IT-related field or an equivalent practical track record  
• Proficiency in English (minimum B2 level)  

• Sound knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) 
• Commitment to product quality, knowledge of testing approaches, code verification and analysis, and design patterns  
• Strong analytical capabilities 
• Eagerness to solve complex problems by breaking 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  
  

Key experience: 

• Solid hands-on work with Java, Spring and SQL. 
• Willingness to work with Kotlin  
• Build distributed systems and microservices, knowledge of typical patterns and service integration issues  
• Design REST services  
• Work with relational databases  

Will be a plus:

• NoSQL and MongoDB is a plus  
• proof-of-concept projects  
• warehouse optimization for growing application load, data collection acceleration, and aggregation for analytics 
• work within SAFe environment