Senior Java Backend Developer

  • Full-time
  • Type of Employment: Permanent

Company Description

KOSTAL Group is a global, family-owned German company that develops market-leading solutions for the solar and automotive industries. The company was established in 1912 and employs about 20 000 people at 47 locations in 22 countries. In Hungary, KOSTAL is about to build its first business service centre to provide business support in IT, finance, procurement, master data, sales and HR fields. This will be a global centre with high value-added and complex processes which you can help to build. 

The work can be managed remotely – with time-to-time office presence depending on the team’s agreement and the demand of the respective professional area – from any location in Hungary. In case of some company events, office attendance is expected from the colleagues. Technical conditions for working from home are fully in place.

Job Description

Overall Purpose of Job:

Compleo Charging Software’s e-mobility cloud platform intents to make the management and commercial operation of public charging infrastructure for business partners as simple and efficient as possible. Alongside with that Compleo’s product portfolio also provides EV drivers an easy access to charging infrastructure with innovative payment solutions and a huge charging network based on the eMarketplace. To extend Compleo Charging Software’s good market position in the booming market usability security and performance optimizations as well as new features need to be designed and developed.

Main tasks, roles and responsibilities:

  • As Backend Developer you will develop software solutions for distributed and highly scalable cloud platform which consist of a variety of microservices and frontends. Via this platform business customers manage their public charging infrastructure and provide easy access to EV drivers.
  • You will holistically accompany and influence the software lifecycle from requirements to solution design, development and testing to the productive product in the agile development team with a DevOps approach.
  • Through active code reviews, pair programming, the exchange of best practices in the Architecture Weekly, a high degree of test automation and active processing of customer feedback, you ensure a high level of quality of your software.
  • With your experience you will act as a technical sparring partner for your product owner in the development of the requirements from the booming electric mobility market, among other things via refinements of use cases and user stories.
  • You will work with international colleagues in the scaled agile software development program using SAFe methodology and Scrum. 

Qualifications

Education:

  • University degree in Computer Sciences/Business Informatics or similar education

 

Work experiences – time/seniority/sector:

  • 5+ years of professional experience as Developer in Java Enterprise/Spring environment

 

Technical/ IT knowledge:

  • Java, Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud Contracts
  • REST and JMS (RabbitMQ or HiveMQ)
  • Maven, GitLab CI, Jira, Confluence as well as MariaDB (MySQL), DocumentDB and Redis
  • Experience with microservices and cloud architectures in the context of AWS and PaaS (ideally Kubernetes)
  • Software quality assurance incl. test automation with JUnit, Spring Boot Test as well as load and performance tests

 

Language – with level

  • Fluent English

 

Mobility requirements

  • As per need – usually 2-4 weeks per year to Germany or similar

 

Required Skills and Competencies:

  • You love solving complex problems and making applications intuitive to use
  • Agile methodologies like Scrum/Kanban and ideally SAFe organized you past projects and you internalized their advantages
  • You have strong communication skills and willingness to take the ownership on your applications together with your team
  • Ideally, you already have experience in the EV charging business

Additional Information

Additional information

Flexible working conditions with remote work possibility (in-person presence is required from time to time), you can have a real work-life balance

  • Modern, newly renovated, sustainable office with parking space and bicycle storage area in the heart of Budapest
  • Competitive salary, benefits and compensation packages (Medicover health insurance, bonuses, an extra day off on your birthday, eyeglasses contribution)
  • Supportive, diverse and highly skilled community
  • Ability to really make a difference and build new processes from scratch, you can participate in the formation and shape of the BSC processes
  • KOSTAL is a dynamically developing company (10-20% yearly growth in the automotive and solar industry), an independent, family-run business which provides much flexibility
  • You can enjoy our value-oriented work culture: we are down-to-earth, appreciative, inspiring and innovative

If you are looking for new challenges, we are looking for you! Shape the future of KOSTAL Hungary while building an international career at a 100+ years old German company! Our flexible working conditions and the excellent team at KOSTAL make the perfect place for your ambitions.

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