Summary

• As a member of the development and IT team, the senior developer is responsible for the design, specification and development of the software.
• (S)he designs architectures (sectional), continuous improvement of the platform including documenting the technology.
• The developer defines and realizes test scripts and executes them (including other tests) to assess and validate the tested objects.
• The developer will also be part of the support team to assist team members in case of service related disruptions of the platform or platform related issues.
• The developer is involved in the design and development of new features related to customer requests in cooperation with the product owner.

Responsibilities

Software development

• Is responsible for the design and development of applications and features
• Contributes to the maintenance and ongoing development of the platform, systems and documentation
• Designs architectures and documents these in the described processes
• Manages the design of systems
• Demonstrates the developed software within the development and support teams
• Continuously contributes to the development of applications and features by introducing new development technologies/formats as solutions.

Result: The software is well maintained, up to date and suitable to customer needs.

 

Software analysis

• Supports the PO and team formulating back-log items
• Is responsible for the processing of user-stories into specifications and documents them appropriately
• Ensures specifications are properly developed into software

Result: backlog-items are described appropriately, ready for development and testing

 

Test management

• Manages the testing of new functionalities and releases of digital products, online services and websites
• Creates and drafts tests scripts/charts and test descriptions and aligns them with the PO
• Executes (chain) unit tests, acceptance test and regression tests
• Consults on the market readiness of new features and issue solving solutions

Result: (Automated) testing is designed, executed and defects/bugs are correctly documented. PO and development team are well informed about the market readiness of new features and issue solving solutions.

 

Support

• Upon request of the first line support team, handles issues and bugs
• Creates work-arounds for immediate issues
• Setup and maintain the AWS based cloud environment using tools such as AWS CloudFormation
• Analyses support related issues and consults on problem solving options that will avoid future occurrence

Result:  The platform is operational, bugs and issues are handled within reasonable timeframes.

 

Performance Monitoring and Analysis:

• Utilizing monitoring tools to track application performance.
• Analyzing performance metrics and making optimizations accordingly.
• Enhancing system architecture and infrastructure as needed

Result: Tracking of the system performance as well as Java and industry trends for continuous improvement.

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

 

Requirements

• Experience (4-7 years) as a developer, preferably within a transport related industry
• Excellent knowledge of Object Oriented programming and design patterns
• Experience in Web Service development
• Common Java frameworks such as Junit, JDBC, JAXB, Spring etc.
• Entire SDLC experience including business requirements gathering and analysis.
• Extensive use of unit testing, including frameworks such as JUnit, some experience of TDD (Test Driven Development) is a nice to have.
• Experience in using CI / CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) tools.

 

Characteristics

Technical skills :

• Spring Boot and Java
• PostGresql and SQL
• Angular2 + HTML + Bootstrap CSS
• REST API / HTTP / JSON concepts
• Knowledge and experience with AWS domain, administration and management is needed

Soft skills

• Very good communication skills (written and oral)
• Problem solver and result oriented
• Conscientious and rigorous
• Experience working in a fast paced Agile environment.
• An analytical mind.
• Team player, 
• Self-motivated and Dynamic.

Reporting To

• Managing Director