Senior/Lead Java Software Engineer Prague, Czech Republic

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Owners and Team Leads to identify, design, and implement new features to support the growing real time data needs of the customer
• Assist and mentor Junior Engineers in troubleshooting and tuning of high volume, distributed applications, primarily on Spark
• Identify and suggest or implement remediation of cases where we diverge from industry best practices
• Evangelize and practice an extremely high standard of code quality, system reliability, and performance to ensure SLAs are met for uptime, data freshness, data correctness, and quality
• Display sense of ownership over assigned work, requiring minimal direction and driving to completion in a sometimes fuzzy and uncharted environment
• Focus on enabling developers and analysts through self-service and automated tooling, rather than manual requests and acting as a gatekeeper
• Participate in on-call rotation, including continuously seeking to reduce noise, improve monitoring coverage, and improve quality-of-life for on-call engineers

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in Java software development
• Experience in running, using and troubleshooting industry standard data technologies such as Spark, HDFS, Cassandra, Kafka
• Deep development experience, ideally in Scala but we are open to other experience if you’re willing to learn the languages we use
• Proficient scripting skills i.e. Bash, Python, Ruby
• Experience processing large amounts of structured and unstructured data in streaming and batch
• Experience with cloud infrastructure. We use Azure, specifically, but any will do
• A focus on automation and providing leverage-based solutions to enable sustainable and scalable growth in an ever-changing ecosystem
• Experience building and maintaining a centralized platform or services, to be consumed by other teams, is ideal, but not necessary
• A passion for Operational Excellence and SRE/DevOps mindset, including an eye for monitoring, alerting, self-healing, and automation
• Experience in an Agile environment, able to manage scope and iterate quickly to consistently deliver value to the customer
• Good English communication skills (B2 overall language level)

We offer

• We offer the possibility to work on full product lifecycle – from concept to delivery into production
• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, agile, software engineering culture
• Using English on a daily basis, communication with people from different countries
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Comfortable modern offices in Prague 4
• Benefit program (5 weeks of vacation, 5 sick days, wage compensation for the first three days of illness, meal vouchers, flexi pass, annual coupon of Prague city public transport, multisport cards)
• Czech and English language courses
• Start ASAP/negotiable
• Relocation assistance including the coverage of the relocation costs (if needed)
• Rotation program - possibility to relocate for short and long-term projects within 25 countries
• Referral bonuses for recommended candidates