Java Tech Lead

Your Responsibilities

Reporting to the Engineering Manager of the team, you will be responsible for designing, building and shipping software. Right from prototyping and designing functional code to coding and testing. You take ownership of the software until it is handed over to the client. Our aim is to enable features to be created on a larger scale, faster and with a higher quality than any other company in the sector. 

You will be part of a team of 5 people and contribute to deliver on objectives.

• Contribute to a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company's values.
• Applying software engineering principles to analyze and problem-solve, and design a solution
• Developing and executing project plans
• Creating technical specifications
• Designing and developing test cases
• Adopting Agile methodologies to develop software
• Analyzing existing systems to provide recommendations for improvement
• Ensuring proper documentation
• Monitoring system performance and performing predictive maintenance
• Performing system risk and reliability analysis
• Assessing new technologies before adoption and implementation

What You Need to be Successful

Essential:

• 7+ years of experience as a Java developer.
• Strong proficiency in Spring Reactive (WebFlux).
• Strong knowledge of Spring/SpringBoot framework, containers (Docker/Docker Compose), and Kafka ecosystem.
• Deep understanding of software development best practices (microservices architecture, design patterns, testable code, BDD/TDD).
• Experience coaching and mentoring junior developers.
• Proven experience in Agile/DevOps development environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes as a developer.
• Experience building APIs and services using REST, SOAP, JSON, RPC.
• Knowledge of SOLID principles.
• Experience with Async API.

Preferred:

• Experience with PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 security principles.
• Experience with automation technologies such as GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud APIs and SDKs.
• Experience with Metrics tools (Datadog, Dynatrace, Prometheus).
• Knowledge of Apache ActiveMQ and JMS.
• Understanding and belief in the "You build it, you run it" philosophy."

What We Offer

• A great office based in Amsterdam and Lille
• Free choice of work tool (Mac, Windows)
• Local project team and sharing with the global network (international career path)
• Skills development and mentoring (diversity of projects, languages and technologies, certification, events)
• Possibility of certification in the first year (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Internal and external training
• Employee shareholding
• Monthly and quarterly bonuses