With offices in Melbourne, Dublin, and Vancouver, and with a growing Northern American, Indian and Chinese market - Digitary helps almost 200 Higher Education providers around the world to securely certify their academic qualifications online. Our technology secures the achievements of millions of students and graduates and our platform has been used by employers and recruiters in over 100 countries.
At Digitary, we pride ourselves on a positive company culture and working environment. By working at Digitary you will get an opportunity to work with our highly talented international team and be part of our exciting growth story as we continue to transform the way people's qualifications are certified and used around the world.
Location: This position is fully remote with an Ireland location requirement.
About the role
An excellent opportunity has opened up at Digitary's Ireland office for a passionate Java Developer to join a leading Higher Education solutions provider, and work on the latest cutting-edge distributed technologies while developing in your career.
Responsibilities
This role is both technical and customer-facing. The successful applicant will be required to:
Play a role in the development process, working with PM, BA and Test team to deliver features according to an agreed plan and in line with an agile process.
Design, build and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
Help maintain code quality, organization, and automation
Conduct code walk-through/review pre-deployment to QA
Liaise with the support team in troubleshooting production issues
Our broad expectation:
B.Sc. in Computer Science or related field
Solid Java experience of at least 2 years.
Experience in designing and developing scalable web applications
Proficient working in a fast-paced Agile environment
Expert in writing clean, robust, full stack, code aligned to industry standard design patterns
Strong experience with RESTful API's and web application frameworks
Ebean ORM, Hibernate, JPA, SQL and strong experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL Databases
Comprehensive understanding of XML, JSON data structures
Implementing test-first design
Experience with continuous integration and build tools such as maven and sbt
Experience of the following technologies: Atlassian Suite (Confluence / JIRA / Bamboo / Bitbucket), HTML, CSS. AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, ELK
This will be a massive bonus if you have any of these:
Hard working, self-starter, proven ability to efficiently and professionally manage multiple projects to strict deadlines
Industry experience with Play Framework and Akka
Solid exposure to developing applications on AWS
Experience with Node.js applications
Experience with front-end frameworks such as Angular and REACT.
Strong customer, product and design focus and ability to pay close attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy.
Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities.
Ability to work under pressure on own initiative.