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We seek a Senior/Principal Backend Software Engineer with leadership past. You will work closely with the product owner, area architect, and your team members to clarify business needs and technical requirements and define how to support them best.As our Senior/Principal Backend Software Engineer: with your Team and Product Owner, you will work in a challenging Agile environment in close collaboration with other teams.you will lead in the team’s technical/architectural discussions and decisions.you will develop and continuously deliver applications for one of the most successful pet e-commerce platforms in Europe.you will participate in the complete software development life cycle from discovery through coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.daily, you will learn and grow your skills, striving for mastery using state-of-the-art technologies and practices such as AWS, Microservices, Docker and much more!Project Overview:In close collaboration with other teams, your team will introduce new features and improvements to the process to provide a better experience for more than 11 million of our customers!Requirements:MUST HAVE QualificationsExcellent English verbal and written communication skillsAround 10 years of invaluable experience in Software Development in JVM related languagesExperience and exposure in Apache Camel, Microservices, AWS, lambda Kibana, Elastic etc.A profound understanding of software engineering and design fundamentals, complemented by hands-on design and development expertiseA track record of successful technical leadershipExpertise in agile methodologies and practicesExperience working in an internationally distributed environmentAny experience with development of an integration platform will be a plusReady to work with on-call duties - approximately 1 week on call every 8 weeks.Nice to haveGood understanding of software architecture principles and design patternsExperience in the e-commerce domain.Modelling experience (UML, C4)Live coding requirements• TBDResponsibilities:Your responsibilitiesHave a strong commitment to maintaining a high standard of technical excellence by emphasizing best practices and industry trendsActively code and contribute to ongoing features and issuesProvide team leadership, technical guidance, and direction for integration platformWork with all stakeholders and enterprise architects to come up with the road mapCollaborate with different stakeholders, run the scrum, manage the backlogSupport your teams as an agile driver & coach of the software delivery processActively participate in the recruitment and retention process, ensuring a healthy composition of the teamMonitor and optimize budget costs related to product expenses, such as AWS, licenses etc.Why this position:Here are several aspects of our team and work environment that contribute to a positive and fulfilling experience:• We work in self-organized teams following Scrum methodology, respecting, and valuing everyone´s opinion.• We learn from each other and share knowledge through pair programming, code reviews, and many training opportunities.• We deliver value by developing new features, maintaining existing products, and improving all the infrastructure we need, so we would also like to have a colleague who is cross-functional.• We are committed to delivering high-quality products and believe that continuous delivery, clean code, and a DevOps mindset are key to achieving this goal.• Our team values a friendly and collaborative environment and greatly encourages open communication and teamwork. We believe in a team approach and do not assign blame; instead, we work together to build and maintain the system.• We embrace diversity, having colleagues from over 50 countries. This means our working language is English.Technologies we leverage on:• Java 11+, Spring framework (Boot, Hibernate)• Apache Camel• Oracle, PostgreSQL• CI/CD with Jenkins pipeline• InfluxDB, Grafana, Sensu, ELK stack• infrastructure as a code, one-click deployment, C4 diagrams• Mesos/Marathon, Docker, Kubernetes• Amazon Web Services and cloud deployments (S3, SNS, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, etc.), using tools such as Terraform or AWS CLI• Git, Scrum, Pair Programming, Peer Reviewing