Context and description

In the context of a major business transformation programme, we are looking for a senior java developer to reinforce the existing teams, with a propensity for architectural tasks & insights: candidate must be willing and able to assist architects in addition to its senior dev tasks (designs, reviews, coaching, deployments, …).

As a senior developer you will join a department of about 70 people (in evolution) to ensure the hand-over, refactoring or greenfield development of new business applications.

The senior developer we’re looking for will be responsible for Java application development, supporting analysts and business objectives while providing expertise in full software development lifecycle, from concept and design, to testing.

Responsibilities:

• Development / Maintenance of business applications
• Develop application components/webservices
• Contribute in design of component architecture and building blocks (in close collaboration with technical lead or senior software architects)
• Coach co-workers on a technical level when needed.
• Participation in technical working groups, progress meetings and meetings with the users if needed
• Assistance in the testing, the technical documentation, the deployment, the evaluation and the reporting (JUnit, JIRA)

Experiences

• Minimum 8-10 years of full-time professional Java Development experience is required (Fullstack preferred – backend with good affinity for frontend is ok)
• Familiarity with multi-system integration and complex environments.
• Experience with coaching & reviews of peers / junior developers.

Competencies:

• Technical knowledge and practical experience of required technologies to be able to start development and support directly (below):

• Java and Spring Framework

• JPA (with Hibernate as implementation)
• Security patterns (Spring security)
• Soap and RESTful Web Services
• Spring Batch
• SOA, microservices, CQRS
• Test driven development (Junit, Spring, CI, Mockito, Cypress, Selenium)
• Frontend (HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Angular) & backend abilities
• Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Openshift, SVN or GIT and Eclipse or IntelliJ, Sonar, JBoss, Tomcat…
• Experience with relational database and O/R mapping, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle
• Able to read and understand BPMN, UML & documentation practices

• Jira/Confluence

• Familiar with AGILE/SCRUM methodologies, test-driven development and continuous integration

• Solution and customer oriented
• Ability to integrate easily into an existing team and to supervise juniors

Mission & Working hours

We are based in Brussel (just in front of Midi Station).

This will be an initial contract – The mission is long term and can be extended beyond 2025.

5 days from Monday until Friday (7h48 per day). Homeworking is possible (3-4 days a week).

Languages

• French or Dutch: active knowledge (understanding / speaking / writing technical documentation / reading) of one language.
• English (written / team communication): active knowledge