Senior Java Backend Engineer

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SICPA is extending its mission of enabling trust to the digital economy. Core to this strategy is a Platform as a Service for hosting security technologies and facilitating development of highly scalable and mission-critical security solutions.

This is your chance to join our Platform Foundations team; a small but strong team of engineers passionate about breeding the best ideas and using state-of-the-art software technologies and software engineering practices to deliver an innovative PaaS. For the Platform Foundations team, we are currently looking for an experienced, motivated, hands-on : SENIOR JAVA BACKEND ENGINEER

Role:

• Be a technical expert in charge of maintaining and evolving a portion of our internal digital platform
• Design, build and maintain backend services and libraries (in Java and Kotlin)
• Support teams that use our platform, coach junior engineers, help others in the team progress on their tasks
• Understand and help solving technical challenges in other domains such as infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline, frontend and subsystem interactions
• Explore, evaluate and introduce new innovative technologies
• Contribute to the “bottom-up” technical roadmap construction in coordination with stakeholders
• Actively help the agile team organize its work and processes, and deliver results of highest quality
• Facilitate technical collaboration and adoption of the digital platform, manage external suppliers
• Apply and promote software engineering best practices (testing, documentation, code review, etc.)

Profile:

• You have a BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a related field
• You are an experienced software engineer with an in-depth knowledge of Java (or Kotlin) and its ecosystem
• You write well-tested and efficient code that is easy to understand, evolve and maintain
• You are familiar with the Linux environment, including shell scripting and software packaging
• You have hands-on experience with any of the following technologies: Spring (Boot), gRPC, OpenAPI, Docker, OpenShift or Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MinIO, Keycloak / OpenID Connect, Jenkins, Spark, Hadoop, Typescript, Angular
• You are a great team player who likes multi-cultural working environments and is also able to work independently
• You are fluent in English (knowledge of French is a plus)

JOIN US!

We offer an exciting and challenging role, with great potential for personal development and a truly global impact. Help us contribute to a more secure world and enable trust in the digital society!