Senior Java Software Engineer

Forte Group has an open position for a qualified Java Software Engineer who will be responsible for a demanding and rewarding variety of duties related to working on new systems and solutions and enhancing existing systems utilizing Java. You should be both independent and an enthusiastic team player, have strong problem-solving and analytical skills and pay close attention to details.

About the Product

Our product and engineering team owns an enterprise-class software product that enables automation for job scheduling and workflow orchestration across applications, systems and infrastructure. The entire product ecosystem consists of multiple applications tightly integrated with each other and used to orchestrate complex IT workflows, optimize workload automation activities, provide centralized management of schedules, collect analytics and stream data related to the software operations.

About the Team

The entire team is international and distributed across Poland, Ukraine and the United States, we have colleagues in Germany and other European countries as well. The engineering team consists of 2x end-to-end Feature Teams working on the product functionality, and a dedicated Test Automation team. Teams use Jira to manage their backlog and to prioritize work items, documentation hosted in Confluence. Meetings and interpersonal communication run via Slack and Zoom. We’re following the Scrum process with 2-week iterations and practicing Agile Way of Working in close, day-to-day collaboration with each other.

Team structure and Workflow

The team is located in Eastern Europe, we use Jira to manage our backlog and to track the work progress. We follow the Scrum process with all major ceremonies - daily stand-up’s, planning, refinement, retrospective sessions and a lot of interpersonal communication.

Technologies and Tools

Workload automation platform

• Backend/Frontend: Java 17, Jetty / GWT

Data exchange tool

• Backend/Frontend: Java 17, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JdbcTemplate, JaVers / React
• Databases: MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres
• Source code management: Bitbucket
• Tools: IntelliJ Idea, Jira, Confluence, Slack

Responsibilities

• Design and develop software applications
• Analyze requirements, collaborate with team members to produce thoughtful software designs
• Provide accurate estimates on work items
• Maintain coding standards and participate in peer code reviews
• Facilitate engineering operation process to ensure high-quality software solutions concerning engineering excellence
• Assess solution architecture in terms of vulnerabilities and possible improvements

Qualifications and Skills

• Good knowledge of Java Core, Java Concurrency and multithreading
• Experience with Spring, Hibernate
• Good understanding and experience in client-server applications development
• SQL, understanding of relational data modeling
• Strong insight into OOP and design patterns
• Knowledge of common algorithms and data representation models
• Intermediate English level or higher
• A strong mathematical background will be a plus

Engineering Practices

• Static code analysis
• Code review
• Refactoring
• CI/CD

We offer

• Experience working with colleagues locally and abroad
• Opportunities for self-realization working on challenging projects using new technologies and tools
• Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
• Social and corporate events
• Possibility for career development
• Participation in professional trainings, meetups
• Medical & family care programs
• Various sport activities coverage
• Fully paid by Forte 5 sick days during working year
• Internal English courses provided by Forte Teacher
• Comfortable and fully equipped workplace

Join us and be part of our company!