Duties and Responsibilities

• Understand merchant and partner needs, problems, and expectations and take action to address expectations through high quality, innovative solutions that deliver value to our customers.
• Improve the software development process, methodologies, and tools through applied experience, automation, and simplification.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure that deliverables are technically accurate and useful on time – we build quality into all stages of the software lifecycle, with a focus on end-user observable (and testable) system behaviours.
• Identify critical activities & tasks on projects, help with estimation and planning, ensure timely and accurate communication of status, resolution of issues, and contribute beyond assigned tasks - adjusting priorities when appropriate.
• Develop systems using efficient, secure and clear code following industry and company standards.
• Assist with software deployment activities to internal test environments and our production data centres – the team is responsible for Requirements Analysis through to Release.
• Be proactive, self-motivated, attentive to detail, with the ability to work well under pressure.
• Be a team player and role model, exhibiting a professional attitude, building work relationships, demonstrating flexibility, and supporting workplace ethics.

 Qualifications 

• 4-6 years in a Software Engineering position.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong understanding of Linux development, database design and development.
• Experience in server-side product development with Java.
• Experience with Design Patterns, Refactoring, OO Design, and related areas.
• Experience working with JPA2 and Hibernate, preferably with MySQL 5.7+ with InnoDB.
• REST API design and implementation with Java, working knowledge of JAX-RS & RESTEasy.
• Expected to be self-starters who can operate well under a variety of different situations and types of projects, ranging from a team of one to a team of many.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
• Must be proactive, self-motivated, attentive to detail, and able to work well under pressure.
• Strong communication skills.
• Willingness to work as part of a team.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Web client programming skills, including HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.
• Exposure to developing secure web-applications, preferably in a PCI-DSS setting.
• Some Understanding of both public and private cloud compute and networking stack.