Job Description
Title: Lead Backend Engineer
Location: Europe
JobDescription:
Develocity is a first-of-its-kind product that software teams use to accelerate and optimize Gradle, Apache Maven™, Bazel, and sbt builds. It comprises several facets, including large-volume data ingestion and processing, complex data analysis and visualization, and distributed caching and execution systems.
Our software is used by some of the world’s leading software organizations, such as Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify, SAP, several top ten banks, and many other major customers across all verticals. We regularly collaborate with these and other users to make our products continuously better.
We have partnered with the Apache Software Foundation, the Micronaut Foundation, and other OSS projects like Spring, Quarkus, Kotlin Compiler, JUnit, AndroidX, etc., to bring the values of Develocity also to the OSS Community.
Profile
We are looking for a Lead back-end engineer with a demonstrated ability to efficiently deliver and maintain robust and useful software based solutions, as part of a collaborative team.
Our ideal candidates have a success record of delivering testable, evolvable, and scalable back-end architectures to production. While not necessarily build experts, they do exhibit a deep understanding and interest in the automation domain and in developer productivity. They thrive on challenging development and integration problems, understand the nuances of performance and memory optimization, possess and can capably articulate strong opinions, and feel comfortable collaborating with a distributed team.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, test, deliver and maintain Develocity features
- Solve technical problems that have large scope, complexity, and business impact
- Managing individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
- Assisting clients during trials and in production
- Contributing to changes that improve the team’s velocity and efficiency
- Participate in Develocity releases in collaboration with the entire engineering team
Minimum qualifications
- 7+ years of professional software development experience
- In-depth experience with Java and the JVM
- Experience leading complex features end-to-end and cross-team
- Working proficiency and communication skills in written and verbal English
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills
Preferred qualifications
- Experience designing and building fault-tolerant, distributed systems
- Experience building and scaling highly-available systems.
- Experience working with AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Experience automating the software build and delivery process
- Experience working on developer tools
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with effective communication skills
- Interest and ability to learn new software development skills and techniques