Job details:

• Full-time
• 100% home office allowed.
• Visiting Riga office potentially once a quarter
• Start date: ASAP
• 1st contract for 1 year
• Extensions possible
• Location: Latvia/Lithuania
• Project location: Riga

Scope:

Project is in a pilot phase currently. Client has existing teams with velocity and schedules in place, they are looking to add senior people to join these teams.

As a developer in the squad you’ll be responsible for maintaining and developing an advantageous (user) experience on several of existing applications and services – in the cloud – which are used throughout the whole organisation.

Additionally we want to accelerate the development of our services, and that’s where you come in! You will interact with a wide range of colleagues: business stakeholders, developers, architects, product owners

Skills:

• Technical knowledge must be at least 2-3 years hands-on experience and practice with the required skillset.
• Modern Java (v11 or more) is not a secret to you and you’re passionate about its ecosystem (Spring Boot,...).
• The Atlassian stack is no unknown terrain for you.
• You are well-versed in modern web technologies such as HTTP, REST & JSON
• You don’t need to chant SQL but you’re not afraid of singing along.
• Experience with MongoDB, Spring framework / Quarkus and/or Thymeleaf and/or Golang are a plus.
• Really nice would be if AWS is something you’ve worked with before.
• Things like CloudFormation, ECS, SNS, SQS, S3, Lambda and CloudWatch are more than unicorn names for you
• Front-end work does not make you run and scream but instead React.js, JavaScript and Test automation of front-ends are buddies (maybe long time not seen buddies but still).
• Must be able personally implement, build, migrate, manage
• Only theoretical knowledge might not be enough for the role’s successful fulfilment
• The client is looking for people who are agile, self-managed, open-minded and with great communications skills, great team player
• “You build it – You own it” mentality.
• You love helping business go fast but you’re also good at identifying the technical debt breaking point
• You’re a good communicator and strive on achieving goals by working collaboratively as a team with your colleagues
• You’re a responsible worker, to whom quality means more than quantity
• You’re agile and things like Scrum, Kanban, XP are not just buzzwords for you.
• Your fancy is tickled by very fast moving and evolving technology which keeps you on your toes.
• Loosely coupled event-driven microservices is what we eat. You too?"
• You build things with today’s security needs in mind
• Having worked in an environment with GDPR knowledge is also a plus
• Java v19+ knowledge would even make you more wanted.
• English is a must have, any other language is nice to have.