Senior Backend Developer

We are looking for an experienced senior level developer with a background in software engineering, agile methodology, and operational ready products to join the Football Data Service Platform team.

The Senior Developer understands both worlds - frontend and backend and is an expert on backend technologies as coding is the focus.

The Football Data Service Platform team is a well-established agile team accountable for delivering high traffic enterprise shared services (and microservices) that are used to ingest, store, transform, and expose transformed structured data to empower digital solutions for the benefit of football fans across the world.

TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Develop codes, test and analyze software solutions compliant with the project plan and technical design.
2. Provide technical support for other engineers in the agile team.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS :

1. 6+ years of experience as an engineer and in-depth knowledge of backend technologies including Java with Spring Boot.
2. Very strong understanding of high traffic systems, microservices architectures, design patterns, and distributed architectures.
3. Very strong experience in designing Web Services and Rest APIs.
4. Strong understanding of public cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
5. Strong understanding of SQL and NoSQL DBs (preferably Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis).
6. Good understanding of container orchestration tools (such as Docker, Kubernetes).
7. Good understanding of Git.
8. Explicit experience in agile methodologies like Kanban / Scrum.
9. Being at ease working in a distributed environment where other team members are often located anywhere in Europe.
10. Knowledge of Atlassian JIRA & Confluence tools.

LANGUAGE :

Fluent in English - B2 (speaking and writing).

WE OFFER :

Full-time Freelance contract.

Rate : Up to €280 per day + VAT (according to the experience provided).