Java Software Engineer

Global ecommerce travel giant requires an experienced Java Engineer.

A Software Engineer II owns the execution of technical elements in the tech stack, products and processes. They are responsible for the implementation of technical solutions based on business requirements, they can estimate the effort and impact of the items they work on, and show a high quality of craft in what they deliver. A Software Engineer II understands the quality of test automation is as important as the production code and spends time refactoring both to ensure ease of change enabling a sustainable pace of development. Software Engineer II are expected to work together with colleagues in other job roles to design, prioritise and implement technical tasks.

Key Responsibilities

Building software applications ss responsible to build software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business area is responsible to write readable and reusable code by applying standard patterns and using standard libraries

Is responsible to refactor and simplify code by introducing design patterns when necessaryIs responsible to ensure the quality of the application by following standard testing techniques and methods that adhere to the test strategy

Is responsible to maintain data security, integrity and quality by effectively following company standards and best practices

End to End System Ownership

Has sufficient knowledge to own a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violated

Has sufficient knowledge to reduce business continuity risks and bus factor by applying state-of-the-art practices and tools, and writing the appropriate documentation such as runbooks and OpDocs

Has sufficient knowledge to reduce risk and obtain customer feedback by using continuous delivery and experimentation frameworks

Has sufficient knowledge to independently manage an application or service by working through deployment and operations in production

Technical Incident ManagementIs responsible to address and resolve live production issues by mitigating the customer impact within SLAIs responsible to improve the overall reliability of systems by producing long term solutions through root cause analysisIs responsible to keep track of incidents by contributing to postmortem processes and logging live issues

Has basic knowledge to advise product teams towards a technical solution that meets the functional, nonfunctional & architectural requirements by challenging the rationale for an application design and providing context in the wider architectural landscapeHas basic knowledge to set a clear direction for a technical capability by evaluating and aligning the target architecture improvements, reframing architectural designs and decisions for varied stakeholder

Software Systems Design

Has sufficient knowledge to evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologiesHas sufficient knowledge to describe the implications of changing an existing system or adding a new system to a specific area, by having a broad, high-level understanding of the infrastructure and architecture of our systems

Has sufficient knowledge to help grow the business and/or accelerate software development by applying engineering techniques (e.g. prototyping, spiking and vendor evaluation) and standardsHas sufficient knowledge to meet business needs by designing solutions that meet current requirements and are adaptable for future enhancements

Key tech is Java, Cassandra, Kubernetes, Kafka and AWS.

This role is 1-2 days a week in the Amsterdam office and offers 100 euro per hour for an initial 12 month contract.