Sr. Software Engineer Maidenhead, England

Maersk

Full Time Maidenhead, England 65000 - 85000 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Maersk is strengthening its software development organization, focusing on driving predictability, reducing cost of ownership and increasing agility in our technology. We are looking for a Solution Architect with strong leadership, and experience working in Agile projects to help shape development within Maersk Technology.

Can you help to improve global supply chain logistics? Are you excited to help build platform that focus on providing capabilities that support customs Integration? In this role, you will be responsible for the technical realization of solutions, ensuring each solution is architected and designed in accordance with enterprise application roadmaps, standards and guidelines using the latest technical stack.

We Offer

Joining Maersk will embark you on a great journey with career development in a global organization. As a solution architect you will engage with Platform product owners, scrum teams, solution vendors and platform vendors through the solution lifecycle with prime responsibility from solution architecting, analysis and design through to deployment.

This is an extremely exciting time to join a fast paced, growing, and dynamic team that solves some of the toughest problems in the industry and builds the future of trade & logistics.

We aim to be a world-class professional IT organization that delivers business value through automation, standardization, and innovation. We believe in empowerment where each of us takes ownership and responsibility for developing and implementing new ways of working.

Key Responsibilities

Build Adaptors for data movement from applications to central database
Build application integrations within internal or customer applications
Collaborate with project team members and cross-functional product teams to design and implement the customs integration capabilities for Maersk global applications
You will be a guide in the entire application life cycle including research, design, development, testing (dev owns quality), along with continuous deployment and delivery

Push the envelope in adopting new technologies, best design practices to ensure our products are the best in usability
Develop complex, highly available, distributed, cloud-native solutions, and maintaining high level of quality
Navigate through ambiguities and deliver quickly
Engineer highly resilient systems and be responsible for the availability and scalability of the service
Provide technical leadership to globally distributed team members being a team player

Lead design and code reviews with a major focus on best user experience, performance, scalability and future expansion.
You will work directly with peer R&D groups, IT teams and Business Operations teams to align on the needs of the products and operations.
Provide design validation on key technologies in API development
You care and have strong, well-thought-out opinions on RESTful API design, including API versioning, backwards compatibility, authentication, retry mechanisms and rate limiting
Ensuring builds are kept green and the code management strategy (branching) is closely followed.

Raising capability and standards within team; pairing on tasks, peer review of team members' code and constructive feedback for improvement in both the code base and team capability (blame free feedback etc.)
Proactive contribution to continual improvements within your team through both active participation in retrospective and from engagement with cross team best-practice communities
Advisory to Product Owners to identify and manage risks, debt, issues and opportunities for the technical improvement
Supporting the recruitment of (developers) across the department
Technical support during cut-over activities

Providing continuous improvement suggestions in internal code frameworks, best practices and guidelines

Ideal candidate traits

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent, Masters highly preferred
You bring in minimum 8 - 10 years of hands-on enterprise software development experience in building cloud native, highly scalable, high performant, highly reliable, highly secure solutions, preferably in a product development environment
Experience with API Gateways and integrations (Apigee, Akana)

Deep knowledge and experience of using different algorithms and data structures, knowledge of object-oriented design, Design Patterns and multi-threaded programming
Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and analytical skills
Highly skilled in writing unit & integration tests across all components; an advocate for automated testing
Fully participated as a technical lead in delivering major Epics
Solid background in low-level design, OOP, object and data modelling, governance and quality of data ingestion

A person who stays relevant with the latest technology advancements and trends
A person who values responsibility; someone who will take technical ownership of the product across all stages of a products lifecycle
You have strong knowledge of current Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural frameworks, Event Driven Architecture & Domain Driven Design
You have strong knowledge on Microservices Architecture frameworks
A strong attention to detail and a feeling of pride and ownership over the quality of our product

Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work independently with minimum supervision as well as work in cross functional and across geography
Flexible and committed to do what needs to be done
The ability to advocate for best practices, great usability and exceptional quality
Great organizational skills and a strong feel for process

Technical capabilities:

Excellent design and programming skills primarily in backend with a focus on enterprise server solutions using C++/C#, and .NET Core/.NET 6/Java
Experience of developing and debugging RESTful & SOAP microservices
Experience of SOAP based web services

Experience working on low latency, highly scalable applications
Strong design and development experience in distributed, clustered, and multi-threaded applications
Experience in design and implementation of service interface and public APIs
Strong organization and project management skills
Experience working with databases and data models – SQL, NoSQL, document DB etc.

Messaging/Streaming – (Apache/Confluent Kafka, Kafka with Zookeeper, Artemis Active MQ or Rabbit MQ)
Experience with Big Data technologies: Spark, Hive, HBase, Elastic Search, Apache Flink is a big plus
Solid experience with CI/CD tools – Git, Gitlab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
The ability to get the best out of technical colleagues as well as business leaders
Strong experience of Agile, Behavioral Driven Development (BDD) & Test-Driven Development (TDD).