Java Developer Contract

K&K Social Resources & Development GmbH is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the European region since 1993. This position is with one of our clients in Ireland who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.

Role: Java Backend Engineer

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Employment Type: Contract

Responsibilities:

• Implementing quality and high-performance solutions
• Promoting the culture of excellence and quality within the team and organization
• Writing well-designed, testable and efficient code
• Deployment and maintenance of applications in AWS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Providing technical documentation, production support, and unit testing
• Code reviews
• Taking part in project scoping, planning, requirements elicitation, and refinement
• Understanding business needs, requirements and prioritizing accordingly
• Being open to new ideas and innovative technologies
• Work in a cross-functional team and with other teams across the organization
• Support other team members by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities
• Promoting the culture of diversity

Required Skills:

• BS degree in CS or related field or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Strong core experience in Java and Spring (or similar) framework
• Significant experience building REST APIs and integrating with other APIs. GraphQL is a plus.
• Experience in scripting languages, JS frameworks, RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL), NoSQL (e.g. Cassandra) and Message queues (e.g. Kafka, SQS)
• Experience with DevOps practices, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and build tools (e.g. Maven, Gradle)
• Demonstrated track record designing, building, and deploying highly scalable cloud-based architectures
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, scoping and estimating project requirements, presenting technical concepts to non-technical audiences and resolving engineering tradeoffs
• Ability to drive a project from idea to implementation
• Excellent time management, communication, decision-making, presentation and organization skills
• Fluent in spoken and written English

Note: Applicants for employment in Ireland should possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.