Position: Expert Java Developer for Ciklum Digital
Company: ciklum.com
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

As Ciklum employee, you'll have the unique possibility to communicate directly with the client when working in Extended Teams. Besides, Ciklum is the place to make your tech ideas tangible. The Vital Signs Monitor for the Children’s Cardiac Center as well as Smart Defibrillator, the winner of the US IoT World Hackathon, are among the cool things Ciklumers have developed.

Ciklum is a technology partner for Google, Intel, Micron, and hundreds of world-known companies. We are looking forward to seeing you as a part of our team!

Description

On behalf of Ciklum Digital, Ciklum is looking for an Expert Java Developer to join our UA team on a full-time basis.

You will join a highly motivated team and will be working on a modern solution for our existing client. We are looking for technology experts who want to make an impact on new business by applying best practices and taking ownership.

Ciklum will build the collaborative sportswear design platform for TOP-5 company of the sportswear market. Scalable solution that will be used by famous worldwide sportswear designers to create and bring to market new sports fashion collections. Part of the larger Product Lifecycle Management ecosystem the platform delivered within the current project will become a market differentiator and key comparative advantage for multi-billion business. Project will use proven and edge technologies and concepts, such as SAFe, Behaviour-Driven Development, DevOps, Event-Driven architecture.

Responsibilities
- Design and implement a set of various types of tests (unit, integration, functional, etc)
- Lead development team
- Lead development of new and change of existing integrations
- Plan and execute data and functionality migrations
- Lead and improve the decision-making process in design solution architecture, solution development, architecture and code review
- Back-end development to meet customer’s business needs and implement components according to modern software development environment (cloud-based platforms, microservice architecture, etc.)
- Develop and review feature design documents and provide inputs/update to specifications for the solution
- Proactive position in architecture preparation, solution development, processes improvements
- Working in an international distributed team in an Agile environment
- Communicate with PMs, engineers, Architects, QA and other colleagues and stakeholders;
- Delivering the product roadmap and plannings
- To use high coding standards, software best practices and write highly testable, automatable and performant code over the whole SDLC

Requirements
- Web Servers
- Experience in software development for more than 10 years
- Experience in event-based and SOAP-based integration design and development
- Experience with complex data migrations and batch processing
- Excellent knowledge in Computer Science, Computing Theory:
- Paradigm & Principles (OOP, SOLID, DDD, TDD, BDD)
- Database theory (RDBMS, NoSQL)
- Code testing practices
- Algorithms
- Data structures
- Architectural, Enterprise and Design Patterns
- Deployment patterns
- Security patterns, Reverse engineering resistance, Common attacks types (OWASP)
- Understanding of network interactions:
- protocols
- conventions (e.g. REST, RPC)
- authentication and authorization flows
- standards and practices (e.g. oAuth, JWT)
- Excellent knowledge and experience in Java 8+ years
- Practical commercial experience with:
- Spring Boot Framework 6+ years
- Messaging systems, specifically Apache Kafka 4+ years
- SOAP and REST API development
- Search engines, either Elasticsearch 4+ years
- NoSQL, specifically Cassandra or Mongo
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- ORM (e.g. Hibernate)
- RDBMS (e.g PostgreSQL, Oracle)
- Version control systems (GIT)
- Cloud solutions (AWS)
- Integration with 3rd party solutions
- Quality tools (SonarQube)
- VMWare and Linux
- Docker
- Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Gitlab Pipeline, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bamboo)
- Builders
- Experience with:
- Leading Team
- Troubleshooting, profiling and debugging applications
- Creation software architecture and design of complex applications, platforms, microservices solutions with Event-Driven design and CQRS
- API Documentation (Swagger)
- Agile software processes and technologies
- Code Review process
- Refactoring process
- Fluent English

Desirable
- Certifications on:
- Java
- Spring Frameworks
- Cloud providers
- Delivery processes (SAFe, Agile, etc)
- Experience with Product Lifecycle Management solutions
- Experience with Leading and Supporting large size solution delivery projects
- Practical commercial experience with:
- Monitoring & Logging tools (e.g. ELK, AWS CloudWatch)
- Service Discovery & Configuration tools
- API Gateways
- Serverless architecture
- Provisioning tools (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)

Personal skills
- Good analytical skills
- Good team player, motivated to solve complex tasks
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
- Self-motivated, self-disciplined and result-oriented
- Strong attention to details and accuracy

What's in it for you
- Close cooperation with client
- Dynamic and challenging tasks
- Ability to influence project technologies
- Projects from scratch
- Team of professionals: learn from colleagues and gain recognition of your skills
- European management style
- Continuous self-improvement