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In this role, it is expected that the candidate will help develop SW solutions using technologies/platforms such as Kafka, Kubernetes, Angular, NodeJS and Amazon AWS. The candidate is expected to work in partnership with other team members in a fast paced, agile environment. This requires not only the technical expertise that will be required but also collaboration and soft skills to work well in a team environment.

Key Responsibility:

• Develop, test and document new software features required by the business

• Become knowledgeable on existing software solutions in order to maintain them

• Support migration from legacy solutions

• Investigate application incidents for missing or incorrect functionality

• Perform code reviews

Role requirements

• Essential:

• 2-3 years of experience working on enterprise level software

• Experience with Java, Python

• Experience with Spring, SpringBoot, Hibernate, JSON, REST-based web services

• Experience with Kafka, Debezium

• Experience with frontend frameworks Angular, Angular Material

• Experience with Cloud architecture (Eg: AWS)

• Experience with DevOps and Automation Tools: Ansible, AWX, Jenkins, Docker/Compose, Nexus, Kubernetes

• Experience with Sencha ExtJS, Sencha GXT, GWT

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL or other relational databases, SQL and plpgsql languages

• Knowledge of version control, particularly GitLab

• Knowledge of application servers (Tomcat, Apache, Jetty, NGINX)

• Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to change

• Good command of English

• Problem solving skills

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to develop effective relationships with other stakeholders

• Ability to work independently and within a team environment

• Familiarity with software development methodology and release processes

• Preferred

• Experience with JavaScript, HTML5, CSS

• Desirable knowledge of Shell scripting (bash)

• Desirable knowledge of NoSQL databases (Eg: MongoDB, DynamoDB)

• Desirable knowledge of NodeJS

• Desirable knowledge of Microservice architectures

• Desirable experience of Linux

• Experience working on applications with large user-bases, scalability, and architectural design

• Experience working in an Agile environment (e.g. Scrum)