Position: Engineer, Java
Company: Surprise
Experience required: 2y
English level: intermediate

**Description**
Surprise.com is on a mission to help people make a positive impact on themselves, their teams, and their communities. Our flagship product, Surprise for Teams™, is the world’s first and only SuccessOS™. Surprise for Teams makes it fun and irresistible to perform better, which creates a positive, long-lasting impact on people and their organizations.

We are looking for a talented and capable Backend Java Engineer to join our Lviv (Magnus) team. You'll be working closely with a stellar team of engineers on our Teams product to ensure our consumers continue to enjoy our world-class product.

**What will you be doing?**
- Building a unique and innovative product;
- Joining a cross-functional team comprising all the expertise necessary to design, build, deploy, operate, and support;
- Participating in technical design sessions;
- Building a product according to microservice architecture principles;
- Working with real feedback from live users worldwide to adjust and improve the product.

**What are we looking for?**
- Software development professional with 2+ years in production with Java;
- Good knowledge of Java Core;
- Ability to produce clean, accurate, high-quality code;
- Proficient working with Spring Framework (Core, Boot, Web and others);
- Practical understanding of software design patterns and data structures;
- Good understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and CI/CD concepts;
- Experience with Docker;
- Hands-on using relational databases and SQL;
- Experience with unit testing;
- Intermediate English or higher (B1+).

**What skills will come in handy?**
- Experience with Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Kubernetes);
- Understanding of microservices architecture;
- Knowledge of NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Couchbase);
- Ability to document the technical design of your solution prior to implementing it;
- Experience troubleshooting live issues in a production environment.

**About us**
At Surprise.com, we’re committed to hiring builders who are inspired by our team’s guiding principle: to derive a tremendous sense of purpose from the inner quest for excellence itself, being driven from within to make anything we touch to be the best it can be. We take pride in developing deep user understanding, obsess about the details, and go the extra mile to show our users we love them. We are first and foremost customer-driven – engineering, product, and design collaborate as equals to create a phenomenal end-user experience.

**Benefits**
Work on interesting and challenging projects, while building a pioneering software category;
Great atmosphere, with the vibe and energy of a high-growth tech company;
Competitive salaries;
Option of equity;
Close collaboration between UA and US team members;
Ultramodern offices in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Gulliver);
Flexible working hours;
Complimentary dinners (like Pizza Friday!);
English classes and an immersive English-speaking work environment (we have a lot of native speakers at the office);
Ability to travel to the US;
Corporate activities and parties;
Dedicated wellness area in the office;
20 working days of paid vacation;
15 days of paid sick leave;
And, of course, we use Surprise internally!