Lead Software Engineer

Maersk; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Lead Software Engineer, focusing on the Customs Integration Platform. You will develop high-quality microservices, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive technical solutions in a fast-paced environment. Your expertise in Agile and DevOps will be crucial as you contribute to a diverse and inclusive workplace, ensuring the delivery of innovative software solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud native, event driven, distributed systems using Java 17+.
• Strong knowledge of design principles like SOLID, TDD, BDD.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain high-quality microservices.
• Collaborate with Product Owner to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Skills

Agile

DevOps

Problem Solving

Communication

Tools

Java

Kubernetes

SQL

NoSQL

REST APIs

GraphQL

Job description

WHAT WE OFFER

You will be part of the Customs Integration Platform, focused on streamlining, optimizing, and automating the Customs House Brokerage (CHB) business via advanced software solutions. The Customs Integration Platform (CIP) is part of the Maersk Logistics & Services (L&S) organization. The Customs Integration Platform is in the Journey of transforming its existing application landscape into Cloud Native, Cloud Agnostic, more modern, scalable, high performing, event driven, microservices based architecture.

You will join one of our highly capable scrum teams working closely with business and technology colleagues to build key business and platform capabilities. As a Lead Software Engineer, you will do hands-on development, help guide the team’s technical direction, take part in architectural discussions, and actively engage with stakeholders from both business and technology to align expectations and remove roadblocks. Dedicated product owners will work with you to convert business needs into technology solutions. We believe in empowering teams and individuals to make the right technological choices, supported by architectural guardrails that align with Maersk’s tech strategy and cyber security practices.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The Lead is a very important “T-Shaped” individual contributor (IC) role demonstrating both depth and breadth across key engineering competencies, e.g. Systems Design and Architecture, Software Development, Testing, DevOps, Security, Analytics, Lifecycle Management, etc. and successfully collaborate with experts from other subject domains

As a contributing engineer in the Customs Integration Platform, you will be expected

• To design, develop, test, deploy, improve and maintain high quality (scalable, reliable, high performing, highly secure) micro services which follow Maersk Architecture principles, Information Models and quality and security standards

• To collaborate with Product Owner and translate business requirements into technical requirements and with platform architects, enterprise architects and drive compliance to Maersk Architecture principles and design standards

• To own, influence, decide on technical / solution architecture, infrastructure design, UI/UX design, quality standards, development process / methodologies, frameworks, tools & technology choices in alignment with Maersk Architecture guidelines, Design Principles and Methodologies

• To monitor our business-critical application estate respond to incidents /change request / Bugs, prioritize them, analyze root cause and advise / implement solutions

• To develop reusable code base or libraries for all the cross-cutting concerns which supports building a platform eco system

As a technical specialist you will be expected

• To promote Agile, DevOps/SRE, DevSecOps frameworks and ensure high quality and low cycle times through model development practices and automation

• To Imbibe Clean Code & Clean architecture principles, Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven development principles

• To constantly review the application, infrastructure architecture, integration pipeline, deployment pipeline, technical debts (if any exists) and work towards improvement / automation

• To continuously stay up to date on relevant technologies and use this knowledge to push the team forward

• To propose ideas and provide key inputs to the product and leadership team on product/platform roadmap.

WHAT SETS YOU APART

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment where priorities and direction may change rapidly as customer requirements and market direction changes

• Strong knowledge in data structures, algorithms, design patterns & Clean architecture principles

• Strong knowledge in design principles/methodologies such as SOLID, 12 Factor App, DRY, TDD, BDD, Agile Scrum

• Strong knowledge of Domain Driven Design & Event Driven Micro Services Architecture

• Hands-on knowledge in designing, writing, and reviewing high performing reactive clean code

• Solid experience in building cloud native, event driven, distributed systems or services using Java 17 or above, & Kubernetes

• Strong hand on experience in SQL, NOSQL and cache stores such PGSql, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis and Memcache

• Solid experience in REST APIs, GraphQL & data formats like protobuf

• You take a thoughtful, practical approach to problem-solving that considers trade-offs and avoids over-engineering

• You have an ownership mentality in all the things you build, and are comfortable with identifying opportunities and driving forward-looking technical roadmaps

• You are comfortable working both independently and as part of a team, and you proactively give and receive candid feedback constructively

• You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and can effectively convey complex details to audiences of various technical backgrounds

• You thrive in an inclusive, collaborative, and ambiguous environment with evolving requirements and can self-manage and self-prioritize your time, energy, and resourcefulness

• You don’t shy away from putting your hands to developing AI models to solve a business use case innovatively, rather than creating boiler plates

• You are curious; you seek to understand why past decisions were made, and use that context to inform future-looking designs

• You prioritize competing products, and technology needs to think strategically about the long-term balance and overall health of the product

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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