Position: Intern or Junior Java Developer
Company: Luxoft
Category: Java
Experience required: no_exp
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

Responsibilities

○ Implementing user stories and technical tasks;
○ Writing tests;
○ Fixing maintenance and support bugs;
○ Participation in meetings with the customer;

Skills

Must have: 
- Experience using Java
- Knowledge and some experience using Spring Framework
- Excellent problem solving and learning skills
- High motivation to learn new technologies and grow fast as developer
- Good spoken Intermediate English or higher

Nice to have:
- Experience with REST, SQL, Hibernate
- Experience with front-end development and technologies, particularly React, TypeScript, SCSS, HTML

Project Description
Investment has long outgrown Wall Street and spread across the globe. In the modern world, everyone should be able to invest according to their values, their budget, and their goals all while minimizing risk.

The products our teams are developing for the client allow the end users to:
○ Receive automated, algorithm-driven financial planning services with little to no human supervision
○ Set up dynamic thematic portfolios carefully handpicked by experts
○ Trade securities and crypto in a few simple clicks.

For more advanced retail and professional users, we create multi-asset, white-label trading platforms that are designed to enable users to:
○ Identify and analyze market trends in real time
○ Find securities according to specific criteria
○ Follow news, companies, and securities
○ Place orders and trade positions

This team is responsible for implementing and maintaining platforms, applications and microservices related to securities retail trading systems.

As a Java Developer, you'll take part in development of various Web applications and micro-frontends, including implementation of user stories and technical tasks, writing unit and integration tests, doing code reviews, fixing maintenance bugs. We expect that over time you'll become a Java Full Stack Developer with BE/FE ratio of roughly 50/50. Apart from coding activities, you will directly communicate with client-side stakeholders on the daily basis.

We offer:
○ Relevant tech stack and tools: Java 8 and 11+, RESTful microservices and GraphQL runtime; TypeScript, ReactJS for frontend applications; Docker for apps sandboxing, K8s for team namespaces; CI/CD with Jenkins build farm.
○ Growth opportunities: Individual development plan, local trainings, webinars and workshops on demand, compensated conferences and certifications, participation in architecture decisions, contribution to open sourced frameworks, local Center of Excellence and Software Engineering community.
○ Competitive compensation with yearly review based on professional growth and performance.
○ Fun and life balance: Team and corporate team buildings, hackathons, cyber sport events, no overtimes.
○ Local infrastructure: Powerful workstations, sweets and cookies, modern office, communication space, sport and relax rooms, game zone, gym in the office.
○ Remote working, but you can visit office as well.

Summary of projects and systems:
Our client is a high tech company, focusing on technology excellence. Despite it is a bank, the legacy code is limited. We strive to produce maintainable, modularized, high-quality software using modern tools and libraries, with frequent early releases and maximum automation.

Our organization:
We are working as Scrum teams, with 3-7 people in a team, supported by local Business Analysts & DevOps. You will communicate with our client-side stakeholders on daily stand ups, as well as on the other meetings, following best practices of Agile processes. As communication tools we are using video conferences (Zoom, MS Teams), rocket chat etc.