Who we are

WeAreBrain is an award-winning technology company and leading digital agency group with a growing client base in the US, Europe, and Africa

From our start-up client from the Netherlands, you will be defining and developing a new digital international B2B commodities trading marketplace from scratch. Together with Tech Lead/Architect you will create an architectural design and define the backend tech stack for the future product. You will be working in a compact team of 7 people at a fast pace with an extensive span of control and responsibility 

Our co-located team in Kyiv collaborates closely with colleagues and the client in the Netherlands. The users will be from around the world, so technical setup and infrastructure will be international from day one (multi-languages, time zones, currencies, etc.). Among the challenges are multiple 3rd-parties integrations

About Wearebrain

Who we are looking for

We are looking to hire a Backend Software Engineer to join our team. Our ideal candidate should have strong soft skills: team player, proactive in communication, able to make decisions and take responsibility for it, a person who truly believes that it’s better to prevent issues than to fix them. From the hard skills perspective, you should have a technical background with deep expertise in backend part development within Java and Spring framework and willing to deal with modern approaches such as services/microservices architecture, event-driven development, serverless

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with teammates and client's representatives from Kyiv and the Netherlands

• Actively participate in overall team meetings, architectural design sessions, product meetings, etc.

• Contribute to overall product quality, own and improve the backend stack, and be responsible for the realisation of a services/microservices architecture

• Create an architectural design in close collaboration with Tech Lead/Architect to illustrate high-level solutions to an application and feature requests

• Deliver high-quality, testable, and maintainable code as well as review code written by others

• Improve the code quality and delivery approach using best practices

• Deploy applications on AWS servers using automation services

Requirements

Essentials:

• A сomputer science, software engineering, or related field master's or bachelor's degree is a must

• Solid knowledge of architectural patterns and programming paradigms (OOP, SOLID, DDD, etc.)

• At least 3 years of backend development commercial experience within Java (Spring)

• Hands-on experience with common RDBMS and knowledge of DBs design

• Experience working on complex functional software projects that require a deep understanding of the application logic and dependencies

• Experience in the optimization of system performance (memory usage, cache optimization), within common tools like Redis, Memcached, etc.

• Experience with the writing of tests on JUnit

• At least strong intermediate English proficiency with good communication skills

As a plus:

• Strong theoretical understanding or practical experience with NoSQL databases

• Experience or knowledge of real-time communication within WebSockets, STOMP protocol or WebSocket emulation with SockJS 

• Hands-on experience with message-broker/stream-processing software RabbitMQ/Apache Kafka, Amazon Services: SNS, SQS or/and Spring Cloud Stream framework

• Hands-on experience with services or/and microservices architecture

• Practical experience with DevOps (Web servers, cloud services, containerization, etc.)

WeAreBrain offers

• Full taxes compensation

• Accounting support & consulting

• Medical insurance

• COVID support (monthly financial contribution)

• Partial education compensation

• Paid time off (vacation, sick leaves, public holidays)

• Career path design, helping to reach out next promotion steps