Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and services using Java, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL within a microservices architecture to deliver cloud-based geospatial enterprise products.
- Contribute to the design of RESTful APIs to build scalable high-performance services.
- Work as part of a team optimising database queries and ensuring data integrity and consistency in PostgreSQL.
- Develop geospatial data and queries using PostGIS in PostgreSQL.
- Understand performance parameters and assess application performance
- Engage in technical discussions, participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding (or online equivalent).
- Evaluate technology options to meet business needs and make appropriate trade-offs.
- Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation.
- Be able to assess application performance and contribute to optimising it/improving it through design and best coding practices.
- Work on core data structures as well as algorithms and have the ability to implement them using language of choice.
- Use excellent communication skills to work collaboratively and effectively with global teams in an Agile setting.
- Write clear, structured documentation for designs, ensuring developers and stakeholders can easily understand and maintain the codebase, along with product documentation to support end user integration.
Education Qualification
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
- Strong professional experience.
Desired Characteristics
- Experience in using back-end technologies such as Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Kafka, MinIO, and Infinispan.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, including performance optimization, query tuning, and schema design in a microservice environment.
- Familiarity with PostGIS for working with geospatial data in PostgreSQL.
- Experience building distributed systems including on security, analytics, throttling, caching, and logging.
- Experience building performant RESTful or GraphQL APIs which serve large volumes of data
- Experience developing scalable enterprise software services and components using microservices, with a focus on handling large data volumes including both relational and NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with geospatial data ingestion and management at scale (or similar connected network paradigm).
- Experience using server-side monitoring and observability technologies such as Grafana, Kibana, Kiali, and Jaeger.
- Experience in containerization and orchestration using Docker, Helm and Kubernetes.
- Experience with Security frameworks (e.g., JWT, OATH2)
- Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and Java coding principles.
- Experience in API documentation, for example using Swagger with REST API and GraphQL schema documentation
