Java Back-End Developer (Information Technology/Software)

Our client, a leading Software, Information and Communication Technologies company, operates internationally (Athens, Brussels, Luxembourg, Copenhagen, Stockholm, London, Nicosia, Hong-Kong, Valetta, etc). Our client is a renowned supplier of IT services to government institutions, multinational corporations, public administrations and multinational companies, research and academic institutes.

Role Overview

We currently have a vacancy for a Java Back-End Developer fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in Belgium. The work will be carried out either in the company’s premises or on-site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated with the Development team of the company that will closely cooperate with a major client’s IT team on site.

Job type: Full time/Permanent

Location: Brussels, Belgium.

Workplace: Onsite

Please note that we can consider only EU candidates for this position due to security clearance.

Requirements

• University degree in IT combined with relevant IT professional experience of 15 years;
• At least 5 years of experience in Java (> 17), Spring Boot (WebFlux) and Hibernate;
• At least 1 year of experience in Vert.x and Kotlin;
• At least 2 years of experience in Architecture & Integration: Microservices Architecture, API-driven Development, AS4;
• At least 2 years of experience in Database: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Virtuoso Triple Store, OpenSearch;
• At least 2 years of experience in Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes;
• At least 2 years of experience in Security: OpenID Connect, OAuth2, TLS, Keycloak;
• At least 1 year of experience in Security Testing & Dependency Management: SAST, DAST, Fortify, SonarQube, Sonatype, Dependency-Track, Maven;
• At least 3 years of experience in Collaboration & Productivity Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Office 365, SharePoint;
• Excellent command of the English language.

Responsibilities

• Development of back-end website applications;
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by a front-end developer with server side logic;
• Creation of servers and databases for functionality;
• Design and implementation of data storage solutions;
• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection;
• Design and develop APIs;
• Writing clean, functional code on the back-end;
• Compile and analyse data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement;
• Testing and fixing bugs or other coding issues;
• Meet both technical and consumer needs;
• Write technical documentation.