Position: Senior Java Software Engineer
Company: UKEESS Software House
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

Our team is looking for a **Senior Java Sofware Engineer (Performance)** that’s an expert in building high-performance web applications and microservices and familiar with advanced practices in building scalable websites. This is a **full-time** position (**either onsite in Lviv or remotely in Ukraine**).

This engineer will be a member of a team that finds and addresses issues across the entire product and will establish and document best practices and collaborates in developing new capabilities and practices that improve the user experience for users on slow connections worldwide.

**About our Customer and project:**
Our customer is the world’s largest family history and consumer genetics company.
With more than 30+ billion digitized global historical records, 100 million family trees, and 18 million people in a growing DNA database, our client helps customers discover their family stories and gain a new level of understanding about their lives. Passionate about dedicating your work to enriching people’s lives? Join us!

**What you’ll be doing in the role:**
- Assess, analyze, and identify opportunities to improve the performance of customer-facing web pages. This will include becoming well versed in the flows and uses of the product to understand the impact of performance on key flows, with the ability to articulate business impact then.
- Engage with teams to address issues, implement best practices, and improve the site’s performance. This involves developing and submitting change requests and mentoring teams in best practices.
- As a mentor must be highly competent and confident in order to develop reports and respect in mentoring and training technical leads in teams across the organization.
- Design, build, enhance, and maintain internal tools using industry-standard technologies
- Work on AWS technologies such as ECS, Fargate, etc.
- Work with Docker, Jenkins, and CDN technologies.
- Write code that follows standards and best practices, especially around performance, stability, and testability
- Work in a collaborative agile environment (SCRUM)
- Investigate and resolve customer issues in a timely manner.

**In this role, you will also have the opportunity:**
- To partake in the design, architecture, and development of advanced software solutions, and provide high levels of system support for internal systems, e.g. that support the visualization and analysis of multi-dimensional data that represents the responsiveness of our products.
- Will adhere to the organization’s software solutions while following industry best practices surrounding AGILE methodologies.
- Will be able to interpret and articulate business needs and demonstrate competency in providing business solutions.

**Qualifications:**
- 5+ years of experience building RESTful services in a microservices environment
- 4+ years experience with Java
- Proven experience building scalable websites
- At least half a year of experience with Node.js
- 2+ years of experience deploying applications in a cloud environment AWS or Azure
- Strong understanding of data structures and design patterns
- Understanding of CI/CD 
- Strong command-line experience using remote access Linux
- Knowledge of web protocols
- English: Upper-intermediate

**It will be a plus:**
- BS degree in the relevant area required or equivalent working experience

**What do we offer our new colleague?**
- Interesting full-time position in a highly professional team of 
- Competitive compensation (also depending on the technical level of the candidate)
- Flexible work schedule
- Individual approach to a professional growth
- Free English classes online
- 3 health packages to choose
- Annual paid vacation and state holidays celebration
- Lack of bureaucracy and micromanagement
- Modern, comfortable office facilities (a barbecue zone, kitchens, lounge rooms, coffee machines, etc.)
- Foreign business trips (after the war)
- On-site parking lot and charge station for Electric Cars
- Sports activities: ping-pong, soccer, work-out

Don’t meet every single requirement? That’s ok! If you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles!