Senior Java Engineer

Maersk is strengthening its software development organisation, focusing on driving predictability, reducing cost of ownership and increasing agility in our technology. We are looking for a Senior Java Engineer with strong development skills, experience working in Agile projects and leadership to help shape development within Maersk Technology.

The role will involve:
• Hands-on architecture, development, & maintenance. You will be adept in writing efficient code, unit & integration tests across all components with code re-use being key to success. You will mentor juniors to write efficient and quality code.
• Collaboration with other front-end developers, back end developers, architects, designers, UX experts, external agencies, partners and key people in the business.
• Help define efficient solutions and implementation strategies to create highly cohesive front-end and back-end development practices.
• You will contribute to Agile teams in the elaboration and definition of user stories as part of feature development.
• Basic understanding of application security.
• Build and deployment of artefacts on Cloud or on-premise servers.
• Travelling as needed to Maersk locations to meet and work with development team members based abroad (e.g. Denmark).
• You may be asked to perform out-of-hours support tasks.
Can you help to improve global supply chain logistics? Are you excited to work on platforms that handles millions of bookings and transactions? In this role, you will have long-term ownership of one or more applications, including build, test, transition and operation for Maersk's customer-facing systems using the latest technical stack.
Are you passionate about designing and developing Java API’s following the best practices? You will be involved in developing and working in an Agile and CI/CD environment to develop API’s that will help deliver core functionalities across the organisation. You will work in an environment where new ideas and processes will be welcome. You will work alongside other developers, mentoring them and learning from them as well as from the wider Maersk technology teams around the world.

Are you passionate about designing and developing Java API’s following the best practices? You will be involved in developing and working in an Agile and CI/CD environment to develop API’s that will help deliver core functionalities across the organisation. You will work in an environment where new ideas and processes will be welcome.

The Feature Team Lead is the technical anchor of the team and is responsible for driving the team towards the successful technical delivery of features.
They are involved in upcoming feature related discussion that would become a distraction to the wider team. They are responsible for setting the technical vision and approach for the feature development and will become the go-to person for issues related to a specific set of features.
In addition to these responsibilities; the Feature Team Lead is hands on with the design and development of change.
The feature team lead will be responsible for the implementation quality and will ensure that the correct procedures are in place to assure (code and feature) quality

We offer

Joining Maersk will embark you on a great journey with career development in a global organisation. As Senior Java Engineer, you will gain broad business knowledge of the company’s activities globally, as well as understand how the complexity of IT supports the transport and logistics business.
You will be exposed to a wide and challenging range of business issues through regular engagement with key stakehold-ers across all management levels within Maersk.
You will work and communicate across geographical and cultural borders that will enable you to build a strong profes-sional network. We believe people thrive when they are in charge of their career paths and professional growth. We will provide you with opportunities to broaden your knowledge and strengthen your technical and professional foundation.
By choosing Maersk, you join not only for the role, but for a career. From here your path may take you towards extended responsibilities within Product Service and Engineering, IT Delivery or IT Leadership.
We aim to be a world-class professional IT organisation that delivers business value through automation, standardisation and innovation. We believe in empowerment where each of us takes ownership and responsibility for developing and im-plementing new ways of working.

Key responsibilities

• Contribute to implementing highly efficient applications, with focus on code quality and performance.
• Implement quality code with focus on reusability and good code coverage.
• Be a part of Agile teams and help deliver sprint goals.
• 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.

We are looking for

Skills
• Solid written and verbal communication skills and able to articulate technical complexity to be understood by both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and conflicting priorities.
• Good critical reasoning and analytical skills; takes ownership and sticks to the problem until it is solved.
• Customer-focused, whether responding to support queries or developing new features and functionality.
• Ability to work independently and with others in a team environment.
• Able to provide constructive feedback and effectively review code, guiding other Java engineers in the right direction
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).