K&K Social Resources & Development GmbH
is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the European region
since 1993
. This position is with one of our
clients in Ireland
who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.
Role: Java Backend Engineer
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Employment Type: Contract
Responsibilities:
* Implementing quality and high-performance solutions
* Promoting the culture of excellence and quality within the team and organization
* Writing well-designed, testable and efficient code
* Deployment and maintenance of applications in AWS, EKS, Kubernetes
* Providing technical documentation, production support, and unit testing
* Code reviews
* Taking part in project scoping, planning, requirements elicitation, and refinement
* Understanding business needs, requirements and prioritizing accordingly
* Being open to new ideas and innovative technologies
* Work in a cross-functional team and with other teams across the organization
* Support other team members by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities
* Promoting the culture of diversity
Required Skills:
* BS degree in CS or related field or equivalent experience
* 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
* Strong core experience in Java and Spring (or similar) framework
* Significant experience building REST APIs and integrating with other APIs. GraphQL is a plus.
* Experience in scripting languages, JS frameworks, RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL), NoSQL (e.g. Cassandra) and Message queues (e.g. Kafka, SQS)
* Experience with DevOps practices, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and build tools (e.g. Maven, Gradle)
* Demonstrated track record designing, building, and deploying highly scalable cloud-based architectures
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, scoping and estimating project requirements, presenting technical concepts to non-technical audiences and resolving engineering tradeoffs
* Ability to drive a project from idea to implementation
* Excellent time management, communication, decision-making, presentation and organization skills
* Fluent in spoken and written English
Note: Applicants for employment in Ireland should possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.