Relocation: Java Software Engineer

Our Backend Engineering team plays a pivotal role in ensuring the robustness, speed, and security of our Product. Dedicated to enhancing performance, providing a best-in-class user experience, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding data, the team’s efforts directly impact our ability to offer clients a seamless and secure trading journey.

We are seeking a skilled Java Backend Engineer to join our growing team. You will be responsible for developing and optimising our backend systems that power our Product. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our systems, with a focus on enhancing the performance and user experience for our clients.

Experience & Domain Knowledge Requirements:

• Backend: Strong understanding of distributed applications and client-server model
• Financial Applications Proficiency: Experience in FinTech, Banking, or similar areas is a must
• Scalability Technologies: Knowledge about technologies that allow for platform scaling to handle sudden influxes of user activities or transactions
• High-Performance Platforms: Experience in designing, building, and optimising high-performance systems is a plus
• Security: Knowledge of potential threats and security measures for transactional data is a plus

Technical skills requirements:

• Java and Spring: Strong experience with Java Core technologies and knowledge of the Spring framework
• Database Mastery: Strong SQL knowledge (PostgreSQL)
• Asynchronous Programming: Advanced understanding and hands-on experience in asynchronous programming methods
• Version Control & Development Practices: Proficiency in Git Flow and XP practices
• Operational Proficiency: Understanding and hands-on experience with Ops activities, Kubernetes, pipelines, and modern CI/CD patterns and strategies
• Cloud Platforms: Understanding of the Cloud Native applications principles and basic knowledge of resources and use cases for public cloud (AWS, Azure, and GCP)
• Events streaming: Understanding of the event driven architecture (Kafka or similar solutions)
• Language: Business level proficiency in English or above (equivalent to B2 or above in CEFR)

Soft skills requirements:

• Communication: Effective communication skills, especially with teams responsible for security, operations and product
• Analytical thinking: Ability to tackle and investigate complicated problems and convert it to the task
• Adaptability to Rapid Changes: Demonstrated capability to adjust to quick technological shifts and evolving business requirements
• Ownership and Accountability: Readiness to take ownership of tasks, issues as well as demonstrate accountability of the results and outcome
• Ways of working: hybrid (3 times a week in the office - Sofia, Filip Kutev Str)