Software Engineer (Java) (f/m/d)

Requirements

• Developing in Java with clean and maintainable code, having design patterns and the application’s architecture in mind.
• Experience architecting cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Good knowledge of engineering processes, structural design, and system optimization.
• Excellent engineering skills and a good understanding of Computer Science fundamentals.
• Leadership: you’re able to take initiative and bring a subject to completion with little to no supervision. You have experience supporting and mentoring other team members.
• Experience with relational RDBMS (such as Postgres) and SQL.
• Code Quality practices (experience in using testing frameworks), constructive code reviews.
• Tooling: Knowledge of build tools (Maven or Gradle); Experience with a version control system such as git

What you'll be doing

• Work with Product Managers and UX designers to specify new features and improve our products.
• Develop those new features with the end user in mind, and write unit tests and integration tests for them.
• Participate in the definition of the architecture of our applications on AWS.
• Have strong ownership of the team’s work and drive sprints to completion.
• Deploy and monitor our new features in production.
• Help solve production problems related to our team’s features.
• Provide mentorship to engineers to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy.
• Work with agile methodologies.
• Contribute to the definition of the team’s short and long-term goals.

Nice to haves

Perks and benefits

• This role is based in Bochum. Relocation assistance is available for the right candidate.