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 Senior Software Developer.   

Responsibilities

• Have good communication skills (spoken and written) with fluent English as essential 

• Like a challenge of collaboration with globally distributed teams  

• Articulates the high-level business value on projects 

• Creates and maintains documentation of APIs and technical user stories 

• 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 

• 5+ years of experience 

Qualifications

• Proficient knowledge of Java and Spring Framework, React and Angular.

• Know the major Java frameworks and libraries 

• Cloud native development experience from one of the major providers: AWS, GCP or Azure 

• Knoweldge of Docker/Kubernetes is considered as plus 

• 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 to introduce and setup CD and DevSecOps practices. 

• Understands and implements performance and security testing practices 

We 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 are 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!