Senior Back End Developer

Skills needed

• Technical competencies
  • A higher education in Computer Science or comparable knowledge through professional experience;
  • Relevant work experience in software development with an emphasis on browser-based user interfaces;
  • Typescript or ES6;
  • SASS or SCSS experience;
  • Mobile, Responsive Design or UX experience;
    • Test frameworks: JUnit, Mockito, AssertJ;
    • Web UI: JavaScript, Angular, Bootstrap;
    • Cloud: AWS (S3, Elastic Beanstalk, KMS etc.) and GCP
    • Web Services: REST, SOAP;
    • IDE: IntelliJ, Eclipse etc.;
    • Familiar with tools like Jenkins, Maven, Vagrant etc.; 
    • Databases: SQL, NoSQL;
    • Version Control: Git, GitFlow;
    • Test driven design, automated testing and continuous integration;
  • Fullstack Java technologies: Java frameworks & libraries - Spring/Spring Boot, JavaEE (JBoss/WildFly), Play! Framework, Dropwizard, Liquibase, Quartz.
• Behavior competencies
• Communication - clear, concise, coherent and complete written and verbal communication, both in local language and English;
• Critical thinking - ability to search, classify, interpret, synthetize and present information;
• Ability to plan, prioritize and deliver autonomously the job tasks and responsibilities;
• Ability to work with distributed teams, people from different cultures and countries, and constructively deal with differences of opinions and views;
• Proactive, takes ownership, focuses on problem solving more than problem finding and adapts to changing environment and priorities; 
• Innovation - curious about new technologies and development methods, thinks about continuous improvement and finds new tools and methods for yourself and your colleagues;
• Availability to travel abroad (no more than 1-2 times per year for about 1 week), if needed.

Job grading

• Experienced level: Experienced professional, proficient in applying knowledge acquired from several years of experience; works mostly independently or under limited supervision and guidance and may instruct or coach other colleagues;
• Impact and autonomy to perform - accountable for quality and accuracy of own output.  Errors may have an impact on the project. Independent and self-directed with ability to perform a variety of moderate to complex tasks within the area of responsibility. 
• Knowledge and experience - typically, previous relevant experience of 2 - 5 years. May train, coach and mentor other colleagues - entry & junior profiles and / or new comers in the team (functional training). Intermediate level of technical and behaviour skills.
• Innovation - applies commonly recognised concepts within the field of expertise to deliver a variety of complex tasks. Demonstrates initiative and adaptability to changing business environments, contributes to problem solving and may contribute to process improvements.
• Representation - may take part in recruiting interviews and employer branding events (meet-ups, university events);