Senior Java Backend Engineer

Our partner company is currently seeking a highly experienced Senior Backend Developer to join their esteemed engineering team. They are looking for an individual with a strong background in backend development, particularly within the Java ecosystem, and who excels in utilizing the Spring Boot stack to develop top-notch web applications that are both highly maintainable and scalable. The ideal candidate will be deeply committed to and advocate for clean code principles in their day-to-day development activities. A solid understanding of modern tools and technologies for application architecture and expediting the development process is also crucial. If you possess a genuine interest in contributing to the creation of cutting-edge financial services products for a diverse clientele, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

• Analyze business requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design the architecture of applications – choose the best setup and the best tools to solve the task at hand. Ensure applications are designed to be secure, resilient, well performing, and scalable from ground up.
• Define API interfaces and interactions between microservice components and manage their lifecycles.
• Implement business logic in the backend – write the code that forms the core of our fintech products.
• Be creative, develop new features and improve existing ones – work closely with product managers and designers to identify the best and most efficient way to solve customer problems.
• Identify technical debt and eliminate it from the code base with ongoing improvements and refactoring spirit.
• Write meaningful unit tests covering all the functionality.
• Run tests, push code, get it approved by your peers and deployed in production the same day – all our applications run in a cloud environment and are deployed as Docker containers into Kubernetes cluster using CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor teammates through code review, pair programming, and process refinement, increase the confidence in our deployments by improving testing and reliability frameworks
• Investigate and resolve production issues with the help of our operations and DevOps teams.

5+ years of professional experience as a backend developer

• High proficiency in Java 17+
• Strong knowledge in Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA / Hibernate
• A good working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is a strong plus
• A working knowledge of Angular with TypeScript is considered as a strong plus
• A solid experience in modern web-application architecture, design and development
• Participation in the full development lifecycle, including design, implementation, continuous integration and delivery
• Highly motivated and enthusiastic to work in a small and dynamic team, delivering new features on a daily basis
• Fluent in English (other languages are a plus).

What's great for you in this offer:

The opportunity to become a part of one of the prime FinTech teams in Luxembourg, with highly-skilled industry experts, led by entrepreneurs that have been shaping successful digital finance products and building ecosystems for more than 20 years.

• An attractive salary package that matches with your role and responsibilities.
• Flexible working hours with work from home opportunity.
• The opportunity to be part of a multicultural and startup-minded team.
• A position where you will play an active role in a variety of steps and contexts of digital product building for the financial industry, from the concept to delivery and operations, where you can truly make a difference.
• A nice place to work: spacious and modern offices located in the Leudelange business district, close to Luxembourg-City with easy access by bus or car.
  - Type of contract: employment