Lead Java Developer

Job Description:

Experience required

As a member of Front Tech, you'll join an inspiring team of technologists dedicated to our PAS Front applications and lead the effort to industrialize their deployment and their monitoring in production. You'll benefit from knowledge sharing with your peers in the DevOps Chapter and interact with other teams that provide the infrastructure and the data that is served to end users.

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer with top-notch Java and operational expertise, who can help us deliver software products faster and more reliably. You will be responsible for micro-service reliability, technical architecture decisions and deployment up to production. Coming in with an understanding of the importance of end-to-end software development – such as Agile frameworks – is a plus. And best of all, you'll be working with and sharing ideas, information and innovation with our global team of technologists from all over the world.

Must have:

• Substantial experience with the Java language, the JVM and related Java technologies, features and constraints.
• Experience with REST APIs and good knowledge of networking.
• Substantial experience with build pipelines, Java application delivery and deployment to Linux or Kubernetes.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills in French and/or English.
• Master’s degree in technology or equivalent.
• Residency in Switzerland from the start of the mission.
• In-depth software engineering knowledge and expertise; development, maintenance and software improvement
• Firm belief in automation, infrastructure as code (eg: Puppet) and XaaS.
• Open-mindedness and team spirit. Ability to work independently, excellent organizational skills and keen attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Promoting code out of our software factory to production, with the goal of automating every part of the process but without making any compromises on the quality of the delivered solution.
• Setting up state-of-the-art analytics and monitoring capabilities, providing both prescriptive and predictive insights.
• Designing and writing code for infrastructure, quality assurance, configuration or security components.
• Diagnosing production issues, performing root-cause analysis and working with all members of the cross-functional team to propose solutions.
• Providing continuous guidance to software engineers around operational challenges, such as reliability and manageability, making sure that software implementations are production-proof.
• Promoting data-driven decision-making and identifying the metrics that matter.