Full stack engineer

Maersk is the largest shipping and container logistics company in the world. A $40bn organisation with over 85,000 people, we ship roughly 20% of the world’s container freight. We’re bringing our organisation together to become an integrated container shipping and logistics company, fundamentally re-thinking how we do business. Technology systems are an integral part of this change. We're re-crafting both our customer-facing systems and our data-intensive operational ones, to provide outstanding services and experience to our customers.

As part of this and Adoption and Growth Hacking team has been created to explore opportunities to grow Maersk’s customer numbers, revenue and/or profitability by running data-informed experiments. The team will work across the entire customer lifecycle, collaborating across the business.

We need a Full-Stack Engineer to work as an integral part of a multidisciplinary-team with skills in Data Science, Data Engineering, Web & Mobile Analytics, UX and Visual Design and Front-End Engineering, helping shape product and business decisions to drive growth and digital transformation at one of the largest companies in the world.

This is your opportunity to flex a thirty billion dollar business - and measure your impact.

We offer

This position offers a unique opportunity to develop and apply your cutting-edge knowledge and passion of software engineering, data and data science that will transform the transport and logistics industry. As a Full Stack Engineer with Maersk, you will be part of the community of engineering practitioners across the company, where we develop the foundations of our future business.

We operate in a fast-paced environment utilizing modern technologies and bias toward action.

We value customer outcomes and are passionate about using technology to solve problems.

We are a diverse team with colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures

We offer the freedom, and responsibility, to shape the setup and the processes we use in our community

We support continuous learning, including through conferences, workshops and meetups.

This is an extremely exciting time to join a new dynamic team and solve some of the toughest problems in the industry and build the future of trade & logistics. Maersk’s Technology organisation offers a unique opportunity to impact global trade via the largest container shipping company in the world. In our Copenhagen office, we are a growing team of more than 30 nationalities. We focus on our people and the right candidate will have broad possibilities to further develop competencies in an environment characterised by change and continuous progress.

Key responsibilities

The role will involve:
Deeply understand our customer needs and business problems. Apply your knowledge of technologies that can deliver enterprise solutions and outcomes for our customers. We care about team members who are not only technical specialists but are excited about understanding the logistics domain---no prior experience in logistics required, so long as you are committed to learning!

Work with like-minded platform engineering teams to develop the functionality of our future data systems.

Be able to work end-to-end: design, prototype, implement, test and optimise software, alongside others in a talented and highly engaged team of growth hackers, data scientists and software engineers.

Operate in a scrum team with a dedicated product manager, independently directing your time and resources together with other software engineers, data engineers and scientists in the team. You will need to participate in transforming the way we work. The cultural transformation of our business and industry is the guarantee of long-term growth and success.

Contribute to the wider engineering community at Maersk, sustaining and constantly improving processes, culture and technical landscape to ensure we are leading global trade in the next century.

You may be asked to perform out-of-hours support tasks.

Key responsibilities
- Lead development in implementing efficient applications, with focus on high code quality and performance.
- Contribute towards the architecture of applications.
- Define, drive and lead front end technology development standards adopted by the development teams and external service providers.
- Educating and providing direction to wider development teams on UI engineering.
- Collaborating with scrum masters and project managers to identify and mitigate risks, issues, as well as to find innovative ways to improve the application development.
- Embrace emerging technologies and solutions to ensure our online experience continually evolves to deliver functionality that our customers need.
- Supporting the recruitment of technical team members across the department.

We are looking for

- You possess a bachelor’s degree in computer science (or equivalent experience). The ideal person will possess an advanced degree with a focus on distributed systems, cloud technologies or AI.
- More than 4 years industry engineering experience, in either a software or analytics-intensive industrial company, as part of an agile software engineering team, building and running highly available customer-facing products.
- Expertise in at least one scripting programming language (python, perl, ruby, lua) and its development ecosystem (as above), with focus on libraries for data science, statistics, machine learning, etc.
- Expertise with DBMS-related development: proficiency with SQL, experience of building and maintaining highly optimised scaled databases, working alongside DBAs.
- Good familiarity with web server applications, web protocols, authentication, authorisation.
- Experience with designing microservice architectures, APIs (REST, other), scaling web sites, performance tuning.
- Working knowledge of technologies like Apache Hadoop, Spark streaming, Kafka; Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes and cloud technologies, e.g. Azure, GCP or AWS.
- Expertise in portable POSIX shell scripting (bash, GNU coreutils).
- Familiarity with building customer-facing UIs (not a frontend developer role).

Experience

Essential
- - Sound knowledge of Java (8 and above).
- Experience is developing RESTful microservices with Spring boot.
- Sound understanding of Spring modules and ORM tools like JPA and Hibernate.
- Experience of SOAP based web services.
- Experience working on low latency, highly scalable applications.
- Experience in build tools like Maven, Node etc.
- Experience working with databases – MS Sql server, Oracle and/or Cassandra or something similar.
- Ability to review code and mentor junior developers as well as partners.

Nice to have
- Hands-on experience of using a front-end development framework, such as Angular, React or Vue.
- Experience working with Cloud technologies or a keen interest in learning the same.
- Proven knowledge of Behavioural Driven Development (BDD).
- Proven knowledge of Test Driven Development (TDD).