Job Description

As a Full Stack Developer, you ll be using the latest tools and technologies available to deliver state-of-the-art software and web applications. You ll have an opportunity to drive the choice of technologies used as we transform our applications and experiment with the best new tools. The ideal candidate would have experience in JavaScript, Java based Microservices, API Architecture as we need more great skills in these areas to enrich us.

As a Full Stack Application Developer, you will:

Design, develop and/or re-engineer complex application components, and integrate software packages, programs and reusable objects residing on multiple platforms.

Be responsible for maintenance and improvement of application s lifecycle.

Perform application development based on Agile methodologies & participate in requirements / user story analysis, design and execution.

Conduct appropriate unit and module testing; detect, report, investigate and fix defects in the application (production support)

Work effectively in collaboration with product managers, other team members, designers and other support functions when required.

Job Overview

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience with front-end JavaScript and back-end Java development.

Experience of Microservices such as message queues, event sourcing, etc

Meaningful development experience in modern frontend JavaScript frameworks, such as React or equivalent.

Experience building restful APIs and Web services in NodeJS, and similar technologies.

Experience of modern testing frameworks (like Jest, Mocha. etc) for both frontend and backend testing

Understanding of/experience with Object Oriented Programming

Solid knowledge on Agile methodology and practices, such as SCRUM, Extreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Development (TDD), etc

Experience working with relational databases and/or NoSQL databases.

Experience with cloud-hosting solutions and CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, Travis, etc.

Understanding of/experience with Cloud or a similar service e.g. AWS, IBM cloud etc.

Comfortable multi-tasking and working as part of a global team, as well as working independently and taking ownership.

Roles & Responsibilities

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience with Design thinking methods to understand personas and develop great user design

Demonstrated ability to operate within short release cycles

Experience using modern collaboration tools in a highly-responsive environment

Great planning and organizational skills, good time management, with the ability to manage and prioritize own workload and to deal with urgent deadlines and changes to requirements

Close teamworking and collaboration across both global and local team environments

The ability to communicate across organizational boundaries and manage stakeholders

A passion for creative solutions to real user needs and business problems

Driven to achieve high levels of customer satisfaction, addressing the underlying problem and questioning any assumptions

Logical approach to problem solving

Meticulous attention to detail

Highly motivated and productive, an entrepreneurial self-starter

Excellent written and verbal communication skills