Senior Java Engineer

About the Client

We are looking for individuals ready to work with a fun and dedicated team to change the face of communication. We are seeking a Senior Java Engineer to join our Kyiv office. The client named one of the Best Places to Work in LA, is an exciting cloud messaging company with offices in Santa Monica, CA, Pasadena, CA, Austin, TX, and Kyiv, Ukraine.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other developers and teams to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain a distributed microservices ecosystem;
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching, mentorship and code reviews;
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good SDLC practices and leading by example;
• Recommend improvements to infrastructure, technology, and processes.

Requirements

• At least 6+ years of Java development experience (or equivalent);
• Familiar and experienced with significant changes in Java8+;
• Deep understanding of OOP concepts;
• Experience with Java IOC and ORM frameworks;
• Experience with Maven and understanding of continuous build/delivery;
• Experience building REST/JSON APIs or web services;
• RDBMS experience including SQL, transaction management, performance tuning, and schema design;
• Experience with JMS providers like RabbitMQ;
• Experience with bash UNIX shell so able to run basic commands and write basic bash scripts;
• SCM experience, preferably GIT;
• Basic understanding of networking and security best practices;
• Experience with NoSQL databases;
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies;
• Great design and problem-solving skills, passion for quality and engineering excellence at scale;
• Upper-Intermediate English skills.

Will be a plus

• Experience with other languages besides Java;
• Experience with messaging models, search indexing, distributed caching;
• Experience with containerized applications and service discovery;
• Experience tuning and scaling high-volume transactional use cases.

What we love about Innovecs

• An environment that allows you to maximize your productivity and gives you the freedom to think and collaborate beyond the next line of code or deadline;
• We like to have fun, we love what we do, we relax when we need to, we are a great team and we deliver;
• Regular performance-based salary and career development reviews;
• Medical insurance (health), employee assistance program;
• Paid vacation, holidays and sick leaves;
• Gym 24/7, personal fitness instructor;
• Massage in the office, personal wellness consultant;
• English classes with native speakers and partially or fully reimbursed personal trainings and conferences;
• Referral program;
• Team building and a lot of fun to take a break, relax, and give you the freedom to think beyond the next line of code.