Senior Java Developer (24-month term)

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.

Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About This Role

The Logistic Vertical Growth (LVG) team is seeking a highly skilled and collaborative Senior Back-End Engineer for a 2-year contract. You'll be an integral part of our team, contributing to our core services and working within an inner-source environment where cross-team collaboration is key. This role is perfect for a well-rounded and proactive engineer who thrives in a dynamic environment where speed to market and reliability are paramount.

Location: Remote Canada

Reporting to: Technology Manager

As a Senior Back-End Engineer on the LVG team, you'll:

• Contribute to our Team Repository: Actively maintain and develop new microservices using Java 21, extending existing application functionality based on business needs.
• Support Inner Source: Collaborate closely with other teams, sharing knowledge and contributing to shared components and best practices as part of our inner-source-first approach.
• Infrastructure as Code: Maintain existing and develop new infrastructure resources on AWS using Terraform.
• System Design & Architecture: Work with microservices architecture, REST APIs, and Message Brokers.
• Code Quality & Mentorship: Conduct thorough code reviews for peers and mentor more junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Process & Improvement: Contribute to and adhere to established patterns and processes. Identify areas for improvement, assess risks versus benefits, and translate them into technical requirements.
• Product Collaboration: Partner with the product team, offering technical expertise and insights to shape the future of our products.
• On-Call Support: Participate in paid on-call rotations to ensure the reliability of the services we own.
• Scrum Participation: Actively partake in scrum rotations, contributing to our agile development process.
• Share Learnings: Proactively share knowledge, insights, and best practices with the team and across departments.
  
  

What will you bring to the table?

• Be curious, with a strong appetite for new knowledge.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, design patterns, testing, and debugging.
• Solid understanding of consuming, producing, and designing RESTful web services.
• Experience with Docker containers, and microservices architecture.
• Experience with Java (Spark and Quarkus frameworks).
• Experience with streams and list operations.
• Experience in design patterns (Onion Architecture, DDD).
• Experience with message brokers (Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ).
• Experience with workflow management (Temporal.io).
• Experience with AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
• Experience with System logging and monitoring using tools such as AWS CloudWatch and DataDog.
• Experience with data persistence in relational, MySQL, unstructured and/or cached forms.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-a-Code (Terraform).
• Understanding of continuous delivery, deployment, and integration.
• Familiarity with CI/CD best practices and tools (Jenkins, Github Action).
• Familiarity with Version Control (Git).
• Passion for teamwork and code reviews.
• Thrive in a highly collaborative team environment.
  
  

Optional Toppings

• Experience mentoring/influencing peers.
• Be comfortable in a multi-team environment, and familiar with pull-request workflows & etiquette.
• Be a self-starter, whether that’s coming up with new ideas, developing organizational and technical knowledge, or improving existing processes and solutions.
• Some experience working with react native development - it is useful to understand what Front End teammates are working on.
  
  

At JET, This Is On The Menu

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.

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