Position: Senior Java Engineer
Company: Flix
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We're looking for a driven Senior Backend Java Engineer to join our Traffic Control Services team.

Our self-organised and cross-functional team is architecting, building and running tools to scale and automate decision-making in Traffic Control operations. 

Currently we are a Product Owner, 2 Senior Backend Engineers, Senior Frontend Engineer, Senior UX designer, Senior Salesforce Developer and as a team, we fully own the product line and the architectural and technical decisions. We build our product end to end and can leverage cutting-edge technologies for our solutions. 

Our current technology stack includes:
Java, PHP, Symfony, Spring
Infrastructure: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Terraform
Databases: AWS RDS (MySQL), AWS DocumentDB (MongoDB), AWS OpenSearch (Elasticsearch)
Alerting and Monitoring: Rollbar, Datadog, Kibana, PagerDuty
Queues and events: producing/consuming various events in PHP and Java via Kafka, AWS SQS
Testing frameworks: PHP - PHPUnit, JAVA - JUnit
Emailing: AWS SES
CI/CD: Gitlab CI
IDE: IntelliJ Idea, PHPStorm

**Your Responsibilities – Paint the world green**
- You will be part of a self-organized, cross-functional team owning the operation management and traffic control products and will hence directly contribute to the success of the business
- You and your team will place our users at the center when developing solutions together
- You drive the development process using an Agile environment
- You will be able to design new products from scratch and frequently deliver new versions of existing products, using continuous integration and automation
- You will work with and learn how to use cutting-edge technologies and tools
- Lead technical decisions inside and across teams to improve technical excellence through lateral leadership
- Contribute to find the best solutions for getting, organizing and providing customer service products that make our operations easier
- Be a mentor and coach for your colleagues

**Your Profile – Ready to hop on board**
- 4+ years experience working as a Backend Java Engineer
- Strong experience with Spring framework, NoSQL and SQL databases, and message queue systems (e.g Kafka);
- Strong understanding of software development best practices, including code quality, testing, and deployment;
- Experience with microservices architecture and related technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes;
- Familiarity with DevOps principles and tools (e.g Terraform, DataDog);
- You believe in "You build it, you run it!";
- Experience with distributed systems development 
- Upper-intermediate level of English or higher
- You enjoy working within an agile setup 

**Nice to have: **
- Experience with React is a very big plus
- Experience with IVR Platforms in general or Twilio in particular is a big plus
- Data Engineering skills: ETL, Snowflake, etc.
- Understanding of event streaming, queue-based messaging (Kafka, SQS)
- Application monitoring experience (Rollbar, DataDog)
- You've worked with distributed teams before

**Recruitment process** 
1. HR interview - 45 min 
2. Technical Interview - 90 min (English) 
3. Meet the team - 1h (English) 

**Our Perks – More than just a job**
- You have an impact. With innovation and smart technology, we are creating the easiest way to travel. We want your ideas and give you autonomy to make them reality.​
- Flix is flexible. Organize your own schedule, and balance work between the office and home as it’s best for you. We give you trust-based hours and a flexible smart working policy.
- Travelling is our passion. Discover the world with your free Flix rides and bring along your friends and family for half price.
- Teamwork makes the dream work. Our FlixTeam has people from over 80 different nations. We work in a multicultural environment where we can challenge and support each other.
- We're not only green in color. We’re building for the long term, and that means protecting our planet. We constantly test new green technologies and compensate for the CO2 after all our business travel since 2018.
- Your well-being is important to us. To treat your mind and body we will give you a competitive paid time off package, mental health support including 1:1 consultations with a psychologist.
- Regular business trips to Berlin and Munich 🇩🇪
- Educational budget (conferences, certifications, books, etc)
- 20 days of paid vacations per year