Senior Java Developer

Senior Java Developer

Job description

At Kshema, we are re-imagining agricultural
insurance with the power of Public Cloud, GIS, Remote sensing and
cutting-edge AI-based algorithms to assess, model and price insurance
risks for farmers adequately. We are taking the latest advances in
Mobile, Geospatial technologies and the web to empower the next
generation of agricultural insurance. Would you like to be part of a
dynamic team using cutting-edge technology to unlock value for our
clients? Then we would love to get to know you!

What you will work on:

• Lead a talented engineering team & build/enhance
  the API platform for agriculture insurance.
  


• Build new and exciting components in an ever-growing
  and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency.
  


• Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can
  be used by thousands of users of our platform.
  


• Make design decisions on the basis of performance,
  scalability, and future expansion.
  


• Provide technical leadership to other mobile and web
  development engineers. Help level up the team; share knowledge,
  conduct code, and design review; drive code quality and process
  improvement initiatives.
  


• Write clean and well-abstracted code that you are
  proud of, with extensibility and performance in mind.
  


• Work in cross functional teams with product
  managers, UX designers and QA engineers to ship quality
  software on-time.
  


• Collaborate with product management, leadership,
  research, and other teams to create the technical vision, and
  road map for the team.
  


• Contribute to all phases of SDLC including design,
  implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing of the features.
  


• Build efficient microservice components on cloud environment.
  


• Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and
  providing technical guidance to the team.
  

  What we look for:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Java Development.
  


• Proven track record of building and shipping
  high-quality backend API components .
  


• Deep knowledge in selecting, configuring, and
  integrating 3rd party SaaS or COTS solutions as well as
  coordinating the development of such solutions.
  


• Technical skills include strong Hands-on development
  on Spring Boot, JPA
  


• Strong SQL skills and experience and experience with
  relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgres/Oracle/Mongo).
  


• Broad experience in building interfaces between
  (cloud) solutions (Azure/AWS), API management and development.
  


• Detailed real-world experience with Scrum or similar
  agile methodologies
  


• Experience with the Azure platform is a plus.
  


• Outstanding communication skills and emotional intelligence
  

You will be a great fit in the team
if:

• You’ve got positive energy. You’re optimistic about
  the future and determined to get there.
  


• You have a “can do” attitude.