Lead/Senior Java Engineer

Who are we?

Transcenda, headquartered in the US, was founded in July 2019 and is a full-lifecycle product development company. With locations throughout Europe - Romania, Poland, and Ukraine, Transcenda works with Fortune 500 companies and well-funded startups to help bring new products to life.

Transcenda helps companies ideate new product concepts, build prototypes, design world-class solutions then engineer new commercial products. Transcenda puts people first and strives to be a changemaker by building a better world through technology. Transcenda has grown from a 5-person team to over 200 people over the past three years and plans to continue growing.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and supervise an engineering team.
• Develop and enhance WEB services and APIs for our web applications, ensuring seamless functionality and user experience.
• Design and implement algorithms and data structures for our graph database, focusing on high-performance, low-latency in-memory graph traversal.
• Optimize and improve system performance to handle high-load scenarios and processing of large amounts of data, ensuring the scalability and reliability of our platform.
• Collaborate closely with design and product teams to translate business requirements into practical software product features.

Must haves:

• 8+ years of experience in Java.
• Expertise in distributed systems architecture and event-based communication.
• Experience with production support of high-load and high-availability systems.
• Working with high-load and/or big-data solutions.
• Upper-Intermediate+ English and the ability to communicate effectively with international teams.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Kotlin.
• Experience optimizing algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog or Grafana.