Senior Java Web Backend Engineer

Company Description

BlueOptima's vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before.

We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 210+ employees (and increasing every day) from +34 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

We promote an open minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high performance environment.

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We are seeking a Senior Java Web Backend Engineer, with experience in designing, building, and maintaining scalable SaaS applications using Java/J2EE technologies.

The ideal candidate will be a tech enthusiast, driven by excellence and keen to grow into a leader of a group of talented engineers.

You will be a part of a self managed Agile team, improve the development process, bring new ideas and propose changes in methodology, management and organization.

Responsibilities and tasks:

• Analyse, Design, Develop, implement, test and maintain application software components
• Analyse client requirements and convert them into technical specs.
• Own development of features and improvement
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks
• Identity and resolve architectural inefficiencies in design, and create a roadmap to resolving them
• Lead and mentor a team of junior developers
• Interact with internal client facing team and provide technical support to them
• Engage with clients to provide support on your component as and when required

Qualifications

What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Ability to work autonomously with minimum supervision
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, and having a can-do attitude
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies like SCRUM, Sprints, etc and leading a Scrum a small Scrum team
• Commitment to accomplishing the task at hand and identify the fastest and most reliable way to solve a problem

Must have (Technical requirements/ Previous experience)

• Minimum 5+ years experience with Java and J2EE/Java EE, Spring, Springboot
• Sound understanding of Monolithic, SOA and Microservices architectures
• Analyse, Design, Develop, implement, test and maintain application software components
• Strong understanding of Java concurrency, concurrency patterns, experience building thread-safe code
• Strong understanding of relational database, partitioning and indexing techniques, SQL(postgres)
• Experience in creating high and low level design based on existing application architecture and documenting such design
• Familiarity with Linux shell and related command line tools
• Strong grasp of Unit & Integration testing
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including services like S3, EC2, Lambda, or equivalent.
• Experience with message queues or streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS) for high-performance and scalable systems.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK stack, Splunk).

Your career progression:

Additional Information

Why join our teamCulture and Growth:

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment.
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits:

• 33 days of holidays (this includes public and religious holidays)
• Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
• Gratuity payments
• Private Medical Insurance provided by the company (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children + 2 Parents)
• Personal Accident Insurance (Employee Only)
• 12 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave, 6 months Maternity leave
• Support with childcare costs (50%)
• Work from Home Equipment allowance
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year
• Sponsored Learning Opportunities
• Team Socials

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