Senior Java engineer

Overview

At Nortal we believe in thinking big – creating solutions that have a meaningful, far-reaching impact, whether through digitizing governments, improved healthcare, convenient telecom services or creating a competitive edge and agility for large businesses, industry, and manufacturing companies. Our projects have touched more than half a billion people’s lives worldwide, and we’re just getting started. Combining that with the unique experience of transforming Estonia into a digital leader, our vision is to build a Seamless Society. 

To reach our ambitious goals, we are looking for a Senior Java Engineer .

Responsibilities

• Like a challenge of collaborat ion with globally distributed team s
• Articulates the high-level business value on projects
• Creates and maintains documentation of APIs and technical user storie s
• Approve technical concepts of realizations
• Knows and can explain ways to automate documentation generation
• Run an agile Scrum or Kanban process for a team when needed
• Identify performance issues with software applications and troubleshoot performance problems in distributed systems.
• Coordinate evaluation of tools and frameworks for the engineering team
• Analyze and understand flows and end-to-end interactions for a distributed system
  
  
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience
• Have good communication skills (spoken and written) with fluent English as essential
• Proficient knowledge of multiple programming language s with an accent on Java
• Know the major frameworks and libraries for multiple languages and differentiators based on application
• Understands different types of programming methodologies (functional vs. object-oriented, imperative vs. declarative) and scenarios where each would be applicable.
• Optimizes SQL schemas and understands NoSQL solutions and trade-offs involved
• Proficient using version control systems , preferably Git
• Proficient and capable of introducing and setup CD and DevSecOps practices.
• Understands and implements performance and security testing practices
  
  
  

We would like to say that Nortal is a right-sized company – big enough to undertake and impact influential projects yet small enough to care . At Nortal , your voice is heard, and everyone’s input matters. You solve critical problems for interesting customers from different domains. You work with experienced colleagues in a warm environment. You can execute your ideas in a reasonable time frame . And what you do and learn here is universally relevant and valuable. Last , but not least, Nortal is an agile company with low hierarchy – meaning heavy on common sense, light on rules, and substance is more important than titles!