Company Background

Founded in 2008 and grown steadily year-over-year, they are based in Timisoara/Bucharest, Romania, where our client has around 100 employees, with an engineering department of ~50 people. Their current, flagship product helps businesses collect and process data, with a userbase of over 4 million people worldwide (though mostly based in the US). The client is a data-driven company and has developed a fully-remote culture over time. The company is in a scale-up phase and has a strategy to deliver an impactful new product, with new technology, that will bring value to the market.

Project Description

They are rewriting their flagship product – a SaaS application that helps users collect data via online forms – from scratch, using a distributed, microservices-based architecture. The team is distributed (mostly throughout Romania) and works entirely remotely.

What You'll Do

• You will be a hands-on engineer who can teach best practices within your team ensuring technical excellence;
• Support the tech lead and help drive the technical vision and strategy in collaboration with the team, turning it into reality;
• Develop new features and from scratch, following a structured approach and thinking about decoupling, extensibility and long-term considerations;
• You will focus on application security, scalability and performance;
• Review code and ensure it is efficient, well-tested, documented and runs smoothly;
• You will be focused on continuously improving our engineering processes and practices, focusing on quality and deliverables.

Technologies:

• Java
• Spring Core
• Spring Boot
• Spring Cloud
• RabbitMQ
• Kafka
• Hibernate

Job Requirements

• TDD, clean code, code review, SOLID are best practices you value;
• You’ve worked extensively with Java (5+ years), design patterns, various frameworks, asynchronous message queues and have experience with microservice architectures;
• You have a strong technical background coding in Java 8 and above;
• Solid understanding of Spring and other frameworks built on top of Spring (Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, etc.);
• You have experience in developing and scaling a microservice system and have hands-on experience with various paradigms and patterns used in distributed systems (Service Discovery, Circuit Breaker, API Gateway, CQRS, SAGA etc.);
• Ideally, you have built applications hosted on popular cloud platforms (AWS, Azure);
• Unit Testing and Mocking frameworks are something you are really passionate about;
• Experience working with SQL databases, query optimization and transactions;
• You are experienced at mentoring more junior engineers;
• Have a passion for building high quality into every software development activity;
• You are a practitioner of agile development with a track record of learning from your actions to make positive adjustments.