Java Engineer

The Company

Star is a global technology company that connects strategy, design, and engineering services and helps companies to accelerate their product innovation. We support our customers every step of the co-creation way — from ideation and concept crafting to full-stack development and putting solutions into the hands and minds of end-users.
Star works for businesses in a variety of industries, including Automotive & Mobility, Health & Wellness, FinTech, and others.
Customers include Panasonic, Lotus, Zeiss, NIO, and Lufthansa.

The Opportunity

Our long-time customer is a growing US-based company, building high-fidelity platforms for businesses, ERP, quoting, payment processing and integrated B2B e-Commerce software. 

The current project focuses on recreating the product core using a new technology stack, getting ready to meet new customer demand, and supplanting existing customer solutions with a   line of products.

We are looking for an expert who will take technical ownership and help our customers build the next-generation version of the existing solution. The person will be engaged in direct collaboration with a distributed team of professionals who are building their own product solutions for B2B clients. The team is led by a hands-on executive, who is directly involved in all principal technical and product discussions.

Technology stack: Java 8, Spring (Boot, Data, Security, MVC), ORM (Hibernate), RDBMS (preferably PostgreSQL), RESTful API, Swagger, AWS, Struts, JSP.

You

Qualifications and experience:

• At least 2+ years of development experience in Java.
• Strong knowledge of Java 8.
• Strong knowledge of Spring (Spring Boot, Data, Security, MVC).
• Practical experience with RDBMS and ORM (Hibernate).
• Experience with development and maintenance of REST API.
• Excellent experience with Git.
• Upper-intermediate level of English, both spoken and written.

Nice to have:

• Experience in Struts and JSP, Tomcat.
• Front-end experience with AngularJS, Angular, jQuery, Bootstrap.
• EJS.

Responsibilities

• Leading the product migration from Struts to Spring Boot
• Maintenance of the legacy codebase for the migration period
• Contribution to the best engineering practices
• Forming and leading the local engineering team

Compensations and Benefits

Star offers a competitive and rewarding salary and benefits package as well as an intellectually and creatively stimulating work environment. You will find professional flexibility, new ways of working, and unique international travel opportunities.