Senior Software Engineer

Opportunity

Maersk Line are in the process of strengthening its application development organization with a focus on driving ownership, predictability, agility, and lowering time to delivery.

As part of this exciting growth, we have a vacancy for a Senior Software Engineer and we are looking for someone with strong Cloud and Java skillsets. You would be working as a key member in an agile team based out of Copenhagen and would be working closely with the teams based out of India & UK. You will be actively contributing to the development of business features in the Offer to Agreement business platform while shaping the Contract Life Cycle Management journey, roadmap, development of core cloud native product(s) in alignment to our Target Architecture Framework. You would bring Product Development experience and help us driving the product/integration architecture and spread best engineering practices to deliver resilient high quality software product(s). The team embraces continuous integration and continuous delivery, end-to-end application ownership as we follow DevSecOps and Scrum as agile methodology at its core.

We offer

Maersk, the world's largest shipping company, is transforming into an industrial digital giant that enables global trade with its land, sea and port assets. You will work and communicate across geographical and cultural borders that will enable you to build a strong professional network.

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated person interested in taking a role in setting the user experience of innovative and intuitive applications. Through Digital Transformation we identify, define and implement the mix of process, technology and culture that brings business, development and operation teams closer, allowing Maersk to deliver products faster, improve responsiveness and enhance quality for our consumers.

• We are a very diverse team with colleagues having many different backgrounds and from many different cultures
• We are operating in a working environment of a small software company combined with the benefits of a large enterprise
• We offer freedom to influence and shape the setup and the processes we use
• We offer possibilities to attend conferences, workshops and meetups

Key responsibilities

The role will involve contributing on to a cross functional agile team in the elaboration, and development and testing of user stories while actively take part in Scrum ceremonies. You will use hands-on development and modification of frameworks skills, for common components and business components.

Being an exemplar of progressive development behaviours; maximizing collaboration and knowledge sharing through effective pairing on tasks with peer Engineers, associated Product Owners and working closely with Architects and Engineering Manager.

Key Responsibilities include:
• Provide design validation on key cloud technologies
• Building software in accordance with the best practices and guidelines established by Engineering community of practice
• Responsible for the quality design and implementation (supportable, reliable, maintainable, scalable, performant, secure, ..) of applications delivering business value
• Hands on experience developing APIs and Microservices
• Ensuring code management strategy (branching) and DevSecOps practices are closely followed.
• Raising capability and standards within team; pairing on tasks, peer review of team members’ code and constructive feedback for improvement in both the code base and team capability (blame free feedback etc.)
• Proactive contribution to continual improvements within your team through both active participation in retrospective and from engagement with cross team best-practice communities
• Advisory to Product Owners to identify and manage risks, debt, issues and opportunities for the technical improvement
• Supporting the recruitment of (Software Engineers) across the department
• Experienced in building/integrating with event streaming platforms like Kafka Confluent
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic environment with multiple priorities and changes
• Ability to articulate end to end journey and focus on creating high value for end customers while shipping product features on regular intervals

We are looking for

We are looking for candidates with a proven performance track record with the following:
• Minimum 7 years of experience of relevant development experience with exposure to full stack
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on cloud development experience
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of digital and cloud technologies (Azure, GCP..)
• Real passion of coding and technology
• Experience of working on projects in large global product organisations
• Experience of working with virtual teams and scrum teams

Key technical skills
• Core Java, J2EE stack
• Spring Framework (Core, Boot, Reactive Stack and Servlet Stack)
• Microservices and Micro-frontend Architecture
• Hibernate
• Docker
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline with Maven, Jenkins, Nexus
• HTTP, REST, JSON, XML
• JUnit, Cucumber test scripts
• Database – SQL and NoSQL
• Agile software development experience, preferable with experience of Scrum or other high collaboration approaches
• Using BDD and TDD approaches and load/performance test tooling

Business skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to translate between technical language and business language and communicate to different target groups
• Ability to understand complex design and detail it further while doing implementation
• Possessing the ability to balance and find compromises between opposing forces and opinions, within the development team
• Capable of differentiating between Tactical vs. Strategic solutions, MVPs etc. while keeping customer value creation as the paramount aspect

Personal profile
• Fact based and result oriented
• Ability to work independently with only little guidance
• Able to work in an international and diverse culture
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English is a must.