Position: Lead Software Engineer (Poland)
Company: StoryPoint
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**Challenges & responsibilities:**
Are you an enthusiastic **Software Craftsman** with passion for innovation and quality? Do you know how to build robust and scalable backend data streaming applications? We’re looking for an enthusiastic and proactive individual who is passionate about technology to join our team and:
- own, develop and maintain brand new and enhance existing **Java-based ** applications,
- provide **technical expertise** and recommendations in assessing design of applications,
- apply best development practices to produce code and utilise full potential of the technologies used,
- deliver assigned project, collaborate with business, and other teams around the globe,
- facilitate analysis and requirements gathering and build relationships with users.

**Your expertise:**
- experience in designing and implementing **Java-based** (**Java 8**, **Spring**, **Spring Boot**) backend applications.
- solid Object-Oriented analysis and design skills, understanding of design patterns, clean code principles and concepts like **OOD**, **TDD**, **BDD**, **DDD**, **CI/CD**.
- good understanding of deploying, maintaining, and monitoring complex cloud-native **Java applications**.
- knowledge of modern technical architectures and know-how of how to leverage their benefits in practice.
- good understanding of applied solutions to meet non-functional requirements including supportability, resiliency, capacity, and scalability management.
- excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- strong written and verbal **communication skills in English**.

**Nice to have:**
- familiarity with event-driven architectures and stream processing
- experience with **Azure**, **Kafka**, **Kubernetes**, **Docker**, **ELK Stack**, **GitLab**, **Linux**.
- hands-on experience in **Agile **methodologies such as **Scrum**, **Kanban**, **XP**.
- experience or basic knowledge about investment banking and financial products.

**We offer:**
- **Healthcare**. Private Medical cover is provided with two suppliers.
- **Insurance**. Provided with General Insurance – Life & Health Insurance up to 150,000 PLN.
- **Additional**. MultiSport Gym Card (30% is covered by the employee) or alternative benefits (Multikafeteria system).
- **Holidays**.  20/26 days depending on your work experience.
- **Additional**. 2 recovery days and 2 charity days/ per year, fresh fruits 2 times per week, you will be able to buy shares of UBS.
- **Annual bonus**. Based on performance – paid in March.

**Interview stages:**
- technical questions.
- soft skills questions, another half is coding task, they expect candidate coding solution, while implementations.
- Basic java questions, architecture, design solutions, Dev ops principles, cloud, docker, Kafka, - they try to find full knowledge of the candidate.