senior java developer

When it comes to being successful at Sportserve, there's more to it than just being really good at the technical stuff. It's also your ability to be an awesome problem solver. And here's the thing, we totally get that we can't all be experts in everything, right? So, it's all about having that thirst for knowledge and being passionate about learning. You'll also need amazing attention to detail, so if something seems off, you won't rest until you've figured out what's going on. We see ourselves as a cool group of people who love coming up with new ideas and making things happen. As long as you have a true passion for creating awesome stuff, you'll fit right in.

What you'll be getting up to:

• Working across several business areas providing development, maintenance and support.

• Complete tasks & deliver projects on time and to the highest standards.

• Discuss/Meet key stakeholders to understand the problems they wish to address.

• Liaise with architects, analysts, business representatives, infrastructure specialists to jointly develop proposals for technical solutions including implementation deployment, support, and troubleshooting overviews.

• Scope and conduct needed Proof of Concepts when necessary.

• Help identify probable causes and provide immediate solutions during an incident.

• Provide assistance to other developers/projects as needed.

• Attend daily catch ups to report on assigned tasks’ progress and attend Scrum ceremonies for project planning and other purposes from time to time.

• Contribute significant ideas for making the applications better and easier to use.

• Mentor more junior members of the team

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or any related technical field.

• At least 5+ years of working experience in serving as a Java Developer working on varied types of software development projects.

• Strong grasp of established and emerging technologies, systems, platforms, and software.

• Expert knowledge of Java and open-source software (e.g. Spring).

• Advanced knowledge of SQL, preferably with Oracle databases.

• Experience with monolithic applications as well as designing and implementing microservices architecture.

• Experience designing and building RESTful web service APIs.

• Distributed caching (Hazelcast or Redis).

• Knowledge of Asynchronous Messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or JMS).

• Familiarity with observability tools like Elastic stack, Grafana, etc.

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, Docker, GitLab, Ansible playbook, etc.

• Previously worked on large-scale multi-threaded projects.

• Demonstrable knowledge of Maven and Linux.

• Experience building highly transactional, high-volume distributed server applications.

• Knowledge of JVM monitoring and performance tuning Java applications, as well as troubleshooting issues in production.

• Knowledge and/or experience of Python is appreciated.

• Background in Agile Software Development using Scrum Methodology is preferred but not required.

• Background in Online Gaming is preferred but not required.

• Nice to have experience with SWT, Swing or similar.

• Extra points if you have developed web apps in HTML/JavaScript.

Others:

• Passion for writing high-quality, rock-solid software.

• Ability to write and interpret technical documentation.
  

• Good team player, good oral and written English communication skills.

• Creative, analytical, and with strong problem-solving skills, with a desire to continuously learn and go outside the comfort zone.