Lead Software Engineer (SC & eDV)

Aker Systems is a company that provides highly secure enterprise data platforms to large organizations. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to help lead the development of backend platforms and services for National Security and Defence clients, leveraging the latest commercial and open-source technologies in private and public cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, document, deploy and enhance features to our platforms and services that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
• Actively participate in the team’s elaboration and estimation of user stories
• Build frequent, small releases to maintain the team’s momentum
• Collaborate closely with other engineers in our cross-functional feature teams; ensuring that others can cover for you, and that you can cover for them
• Build, optimise and operate our Continuous Deployment pipelines
• Maintain operational responsibility for the services that your team owns

Requirements:

• At least 5 years professional experience delivering production grade cloud solutions
• Fluent in writing JAVA coding and experience with JVM compatible languages (Kotlin, Scala)
• Experience with Kafka or a similar platform
• Experience working in Agile DevSecOps environments and Zero Trust Architecture
• Integrating with backing services, such as PostgreSQL, Redis or S3
• Good engineering practices including continuous delivery, clean code, documentation, defensive programming, automated testing and code reviews
• Using GitHub/GitLab/Atlassian Suite for source control
• Test Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworks
• Experience with micro-service design patterns
• Experience in Big Data technologies