Tasks

• Develop and enhance Java-based components for a next?generation recommendation engine.
• Build scalable, robust, cloud?native microservices.
• Collaborate in an agile, global engineering setup (pair/mob programming).
• Participate in 2nd/3rd?level application support, including periodic on?call duty.
• Drive standardisation, automation, and engineering excellence.
• Contribute to architecture discussions, design decisions, and non?functional requirement definitions.
• Support junior developers through mentoring and constructive code reviews.
• Promote DevOps practices including CI/CD, observability, deployment automation, and lifecycle management.

Requirements

• Completed education or completed degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of professional Java development experience, including 2+ years with Java 11 or higher.
• Strong knowledge of multithreading and memory management.
• Experience delivering scalable distributed systems and cloud?native solutions.
• Good understanding of microservices architecture, gRPC, GraphQL.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud.
• Excellent knowledge of TDD, JUnit, and mocking frameworks such as Mockito.
• Experience in the finance industry, ideally front?office environments.
• Familiarity with functional programming (preferably in Java).
• Experience in solution architecture and non-functional requirement design.
• Good understanding of security concepts and implementations.
• Experience in DevOps culture: scripting, CI/CD pipelines, deployments, certificates.
• Familiarity with Agile/SAFe, Jira, Confluence.
• Experience with Jenkins, Grafana, Octopus, Kubernetes.
• Used to collaborative development (pair/mob programming).
• Experience mentoring junior developers and conducting high?quality code reviews.
• Required language skills: German (B1/B2) and English (C1/C2).

Soft Skills

• Strong team player with excellent communication skills.
• Positive mindset with a proactive, can?do attitude.
• Self?motivated and comfortable working with minimal guidance.