Java Software Engineer, I

With offices in Melbourne, Dublin, and Vancouver, and with agrowing Northern American, Indian and Chinese market - Digitary helps almost 200 Higher Education providers around the world to securely certify their academic qualifications online. Our technology secures the achievements of millions of students and graduates and our platform has been used by employers and recruiters in over 100 countries.

At Digitary, we pride ourselves on a positive company culture and working environment. By working at Digitary you will get an opportunity to work with our highly talented international team and be part of our exciting growth story as we continue to transform the way people's qualifications are certified and used around the world.

Location: This position is fully remote with an Ireland location requirement.

About the role

An excellent opportunity has opened upat Digitary's Ireland office for a passionate Java Developer to join a leading Higher Education solutions provider, and work on the latest cutting-edge distributed technologies while developing in your career.

Responsibilities

This role is both technical and customer-facing. The successful applicant will be required to:

• Play a role in the development process, working with PM, BA and Test team to deliver features according to an agreed plan and in line with an agile process.
• Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
• Conduct code walk-through/review pre-deployment to QA
• Liaise with the support team in troubleshooting production issues

Our broad expectation:

• B.Sc. in Computer Science or related field
• Solid Java experience of at least 2 years.
• Experience in designing and developing scalable web applications
• Proficient working in a fast-paced Agile environment
• Expert in writing clean, robust, full stack, code aligned to industry standard design patterns
• Strong experience with RESTful API's and web application frameworks
• Ebean ORM, Hibernate, JPA, SQL and strong experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL Databases
• Comprehensive understanding of XML, JSON data structures
• Implementing test-first design
• Experience with continuous integration and build tools such as maven and sbt
• Experience of the following technologies: Atlassian Suite (Confluence / JIRA / Bamboo / Bitbucket), HTML, CSS. AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, ELK

This will be a massive bonus if you have any of these:

• Hard working, self-starter, proven ability to efficiently and professionally manage multiple projects to strict deadlines
• Industry experience with Play Framework and Akka
• Solid exposure to developing applications on AWS
• Experience with Node.js applications
• Experience with front-end frameworks such as Angular and REACT.
• Strong customer, product and design focus and ability to pay close attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy.
• Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work under pressure on own initiative.