Software Developer Backend

Join Zaizi, a modern and inclusive company, as a Senior Software Developer. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality software solutions, improving user experience, and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team. Enjoy a range of benefits including 25 days paid holiday, health insurance, flexible working, and a budget for learning and development.

• Conception, design, and implementation of backend systems, ensuring high performance and responsiveness.
• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features, while also identifying and correcting bottlenecks and fixing bugs.
• Mentoring and guiding junior developers, sharing knowledge and best practices to foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Zaizi is looking for a Senior Software Developer with solid technology skills, but who is also passionate about improving outcomes and the user experience
• Our work culture is inclusive, modern, friendly, and democratic. We look for bright, positive-thinking individuals with a can-do attitude. Our people enjoy challenging themselves to be the best at what they do – if that sounds like you, you'll fit right in!
• Integrity / honesty
• Good knowledge of relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL including data modelling, SQL scripts, store procedures
• Demonstrable experience working on product development environments based on observation, experimentation and user research
• Docker
• Good skills in web front end technologies such as HTML, CSS, Bootstrap
• Kubernetes
• Demonstrable experience designing, coding and debugging Java based systems
• Developing digital solutions delivered to the GDS standard
• Atlassian
• Build tools: Maven, Gradle, Ant
• Testing: TDD, unit testing, JUnit, Mockito, Cypress
• Spring Boot
• Demonstrable experience working in multi-disciplinary/DevOps teams which include product owner/manager, UX designers, UX researchers, Developers, Platform engineers, etc
• Demonstrable experience working on continuous improvement environments doing multiple releases every week
• Demonstrable experience working on Agile environments
• Familiar with source control systems, such as GIT, including branching, merging, etc
• Java 8
• Shift to the left: Functional test automation (API testing, UI testing [cucumber, nightwatch)
• Team leadership and mentoring experience
• AWS
• Knowledge of Open Source BPMN workflow engines (Camunda, Activiti or Flowable)
• Experience on a front-end javascript framework such as react, angular or vue.js
• RedHat OpenShift for container orchestration
• Knowledge of NCSC’s 14 cloud security principles