Position: Java Software Engineer
Company: Distant Crew
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

500-people strong, our Product and Tech team keeps us ahead of the ever-changing digital landscape by delivering cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers every day. Our plans for growth rely on a diverse, dedicated and dynamic group of product, tech, delivery and data specialists - everyone’s welcome in this friendly, forward-thinking team. And with entrepreneurial spirit, intelligence and opportunity at every turn, there’s no limits to where your career in our company will take you.

**Position Summary **

The company brings together key digital assets like:

•	Content and Metadata - enabling content publishing, smart metadata annotations, content discoverability and delivery in various forms and formats.
•	Search and Recommendation - offering end-user search, recommendation and insights APIs bridging the gap between content and user data.
•	Subscriptions Platform - powering a seamless subscription/payments/access and the whole newspaper distribution customer journeys
•	Access and Identity - enabling multiple authorizations and authentication mechanisms as well as a powerful access decision engine
•	Data Platform - enabling storing, processing and getting insights from readership data
You will have the autonomy to select the tools and technologies you need to build and operate services responsible brand critical capabilities. 
You will be responsible for delivering innovative technical solutions as you build and operate world-class platforms. You will have the autonomy, within defined guard rails, to select the tools and technologies you need to build and operate services.

**This role will be right for you if you are happy to**

•	Work directly with product managers and more senior engineers to fully shape solutions from inception to deployment and beyond
•	Work within a team of engineers in an agile delivery team
•	Design and implement low maintenance, well monitored, secure and scalable solutions, from cradle to grave
•	Understand and play an active part in designing the architecture, tooling and release cycle processes used by the engineering teams across Product & Technology
•	Contribute to company-wide processes, frameworks and guidelines
•	Develop a close relationship with our customers and provide operational support

**The ideal candidate profile is**

**Essential**

•	Extensive development experience in Java
•	Has a track record of delivering well engineered solutions using current technologies and best practices such as SOLID, TDD, CI/CD and pair programming
•	An active member of the broader technology community with an understand of current leading trends
•	Experience working as part of an Agile delivery team, using methodologies like Scrum and Kanban
•	Good understanding of the principles and trade-offs of a microservices architecture
•	Good SQL knowledge
•	Comfortable working in a Linux environment

**Desirable**

•	Experience of at least one cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
•	Experience in an environment where operational support and monitoring of code and systems is part of the culture (DevOps)
•	Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs
•	Experience with Spring or Dropwizard Java Frameworks is a plus