Overview
Drive engineering excellence and empower our teams. As a Java Platform Engineer you’ll be the pivotal driver behind building a robust scalable platform and defining the practices that shape our success. We’re looking for a Staff Java Platform Engineer to join our team in EMEA.
Responsibilities
- Support the development and maintenance of core code and infrastructure libraries that serve as standard building blocks for our platform.
- Guide and mentor teams to ensure they follow best practices in development, security and operations.
- Contribute to R&D and assist all technical teams in making the best decisions on technology, infrastructure, and deployment.
- Work with internal business partners to gather requirements and create solutions.
- Be a part of the on-call schedule to support our product.
- Transform code written in various languages (including Java) into efficient, robust code that runs in the cloud (AWS / GCP).
- Ensure our product adheres to its SLA and is secure, scalable and resilient.
- Help teams identify and structurally solve recurring problems that cause incidents.
- Drive teams to improve monitoring (using Grafana) to detect anomalies, identify performance bottlenecks and define alerts.
- Ensure our CI / CD pipelines run as smoothly as possible.
- Manage the flow of day-to-day software development initiatives and operations.
- Lead architecture design sessions to safeguard our system architecture.
- Work with developers to reduce bugs, shorten development times and automate processes.
- Translate complex technical terms for non-technical teams within the company.
Qualifications and Required Skills
This position is for you if you have
- Expected experience with : Java and the Spring Ecosystem
- Developing and operating large-scale cloud-based distributed applications
- Prioritizing technical debt and executing a plan to address it
- Monitoring tools like Grafana or DataDog
- Designing infrastructure for scalability, reliability and security
- AWS and / or GCP Cloud
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Ansible)
- Cassandra, OpenSearch, Kafka or Spark
- The Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence)
- Agile methodologies like Scrum / Kanban
Other Skills :
- Good communication skills in English as it is our working language
- A keen eye for security, scalability and resiliency
- High attention to detail and analytical reasoning
- A self-managed, hands-on and precise approach
- A problem-solving mindset and a commitment to learning
Benefits
- Attractive wage plan with equity included
- Great work equipment and home office allowance for those working in our fully remote locations
- Annual personal learning budget
- Benefits may vary depending on location
Additional
If this sounds interesting to you apply now - we will fill the position as soon as we find a suitable person.
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Supermetrics is committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive workplace for all. We believe that a diverse workforce is an effective workforce and we are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone is valued and respected.
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Employment Type: Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1