Description

Surprise.com is on a mission to help people make a positive impact on themselves, their teams, and their communities. Our flagship product, Surprise for Teams™, is the world’s first and only SuccessOS™. Surprise for Teams makes it fun and irresistible to perform better, which creates a positive, long-lasting impact on people and their organizations.

We are looking for a mid-level Java Engineer to join our team in Kyiv (Gulliver) or Lviv (Magnus). You'll be working closely with a stellar team of engineers on our Teams product to ensure our consumers continue to enjoy our world-class product.

What will you be doing?

• Building a unique and innovative product;
• Joining a cross-functional team comprising all the expertise necessary to design, build, deploy, operate, and support;
• Participating in technical design sessions;
• Building a product according to micro-service architecture principles;
• Working with real feedback from live users worldwide to adjust and improve the product.

What we are looking for?

• Intermediate English or higher (B1+);
• Strong knowledge of Java Core with 4+ years of experience;
• Ability to produce clean, accurate, high-quality code;
• Good knowledge of Spring Framework (Core, Boot, Web, and others);
• Good knowledge of JPA;
• Practical understanding of software design patterns and data structures;
• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and CI/CD concepts;
• Experience with Docker;
• Experience using relational databases and SQL;
• Experience with unit testing;
• Good communication skills.

What skills will come in handy?

• Experience with Cloud ecosystems: AWS, Kubernetes;
• Understanding of microservices architecture;
• Ability to document the technical design of your solution prior to implementing it;
• Experience troubleshooting live issues in the production environment;
• Leadership skills.

About us 

At Surprise.com, we’re committed to hiring builders who are inspired by our team’s guiding principle: to derive a tremendous sense of purpose from the inner quest for excellence itself, being driven from within to make anything we touch to be the best it can be. We take pride in developing deep user understanding, obsess about the details, and go the extra mile to show our users we love them. We are first and foremost customer-driven – engineering, product, and design collaborate as equals to create a phenomenal end-user experience. We’re also home for numerous internal teams building internally facing tools for customer service, finance, and others, to keep the operation afloat.

Benefits

• Work on interesting and challenging projects, while building a pioneering software category;
• Great atmosphere, with the vibe and energy of a high-growth tech company;
• Competitive salaries;
• Option of equity;
• Close collaboration between UA and US team members;
• Ultramodern office in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Gulliver);
• Flexible working hours;
• Complimentary dinners (like Pizza Friday!);
• English classes and an immersive English-speaking work environment (we have a lot of native speakers at the office);
• Ability to travel to the US;
• Corporate activities and parties;
• Dedicated wellness area in the office;
• 20 working days of paid vacation;
• 15 days of paid sick leave;
• And, of course, we use Surprise internally!