Senior Software Developer

Senior Software Developer 

Job location: Rotterdam; hybrid working style

About the role 

The position of Senior Software Developer offers an exciting opportunity to develop top software for a global cloud platform, gain high-tech experience, and develop your skillset in a professional and passionate software team.  

In this role, you will be part of a multi-functional Scrum team, in which you will be responsible for developing exciting new system features, technology innovations, and product quality improvements, based on the product roadmap and market demand. The software developments must be guided from start to finish, ensuring development and unit testing are complete. Additionally, you will perform code reviews of the changes your colleagues make. You must also ensure the product runs smoothly by fixing issues on time in business-critical situations. 

What you will do 

• Create technical designs for the functional extensions and technical improvements 
• Develop functional extensions and technical improvements in Java. 
• Utilize generic Java frameworks like Wicket, Spring, and Hibernate 
• Analyze complex incidents, resolve findings, and implement structural improvements 
• Quality assurance, code reviewing, and automated unit testing 
• Document the delivered functionality 
• Actively participate to improve our team and our product 

What we are looking for 

We are in search of excellence. We are looking for a new colleague who is able to demonstrate his or her software engineering craftsmanship, will actively participate in a team of passionate colleagues, and who loves to work on a generic product delivered in a SaaS model. We seek self-starters who have a vision for cloud platform engineering and who want to take our product to the next level in architecture and code. 

• Master’s degree in software engineering, computer science, or equivalent 
• 5+ years of experience in developing complex Java applications 
• Experience with open source frameworks, including Spring and Hibernate 
• Experience with agile development methods & Test-Driven Development 
• Preferably, experience with DevOps and Micro-service architectures 
• Strong communication skills as well as a positive, customer-friendly attitude 
• Ability to plan one’s own activities and deliver on time and above expectation 
• Genuine passion for software development for a global cloud platform