Senior Software Engineer (Java/Scala)

Description

Position at Ness K.E. s.r.o

Why NESS

We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff's professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world's leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working on products and platforms for some of the most innovative software companies in the world.

You'll gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression.

You'll also benefit from an array of advantages like access to trainings and certifications, bonuses, and aids, socializing activities, and attractive compensation.

We are searching for a Senior Software Engineer for our Earthcore deployment team. Earthcore deployment team enables the creation of mapping products that are highly available, performant, and near real-time.

The Senior Software Engineer will be a contributor on the team to deliver digital maps to major automakers, for e.g. BMWs, VWs, Audi, Daimler. You will work on a technology to collect and process road information from many sources, terabytes of data, including car sensors from millions of cars on the road. Our services convert this input into a digital map which is delivered back to the cars and used for navigation, driver assistance and even autonomous driving.

Developers building new services will rapidly launch their differentiated prototypes leveraging templates that enforce security, availability, and efficiency best-practices with a minimal collection of service-specific libraries.

Requirements and responsibilities

What you'll do:

• Challenging problems to solve, opportunities to learn cool new things, work that makes a difference in the world, freedom to decide how to perform your work, variety in the types of projects
• Work with Collaborative, Supportive Colleagues
• Your responsibilities will cover developing, extending, and maintaining tool and services that process data for client global databases.
• Own and drive technical excellence and in-depth solutions in an innovative and fast-paced environment
• Design and apply CI/CD tools and execute end-2-end ownership of your developed software stack, including DevOps and testing aspects
• Work with other engineering teams and internal customers to identify new opportunities, address critical needs, and solve complex problems using your backend development expertise
• Become an expert at leveraging internal platform resources and APIs
• Drive initiatives that contribute in development of software that is efficient, re-usable and reliable (e.g. agile, coding, verification)
• Be part of an agile team, share knowledge, carry out code reviews

What you'll bring:

• Excellent applied skills in Java programming, Scala is very welcome as well
• AWS Cloud experience with strong and applied AWS skills (EC2, S3, RDS, EMR, ECS)
• Proficiency in infrastructure scripting / templating solutions such as Bash or Python

Key skillsets:

• Bachelor or master’s degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or equivalent
• 5+ years of software development experience / Java, Scala/
• Competency with container runtimes like Docker, with a working knowledge of Kubernetes templating tools such as Helm.
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools – with a focus on gitlab and Infrastructure as Code principles
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure code tools such as Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or AWS CDK
• Good knowledge of Linux/Unix
• Good knowledge of using issue tracking tools (e.g., JIRA), code collaboration tools (e.g., Git/GitLab) and team collaboration tools (e.g., Confluence/Wiki).
• Applied DBMS & SQL skills, with a strong preference on PostgreSQL/mySQL

Nice to have:

• Able to translate business and architectural features into quality, consistent software design
• Solid knowledge of programming practices, strive to write great code that is reusable, flexible, and reliable.
• Strong quality mindset is considered a must: unit testing, performance testing, writing testable code
• Self-motivated, well-organized, details-oriented and a strong team player with an agile mindset

Not checking every single requirement?

If this role sounds good to you, even if you don't meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills.

Let's meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.

At Ness Digital Engineering we are willing to build a work culture that is based on diversification, inclusion, and authenticity.