Software Engineer Java

A career with EROAD offers the unique opportunity to work in a fast-growing organisation that is at the forefront of intelligent transport solutions enhancing road safety improving productivity and reducing environmental impact. EROADs mission is to deliver intelligence you can trust for a better world tomorrow.

What Were Looking For

Are you a skilled Java Developer who enjoys designing and developing innovative software solutions Were looking for a Software Engineer - Java Developer to join our high-performing Engineering team in Auckland.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in an agile environment and is passionate about building high-quality software using RESTful APIs and event-driven architecture. Youll be working on the EROAD SaaS application using the latest tools and technologies within a supportive self-managed team of positive and motivated engineers.

Youll enjoy collaborating in an environment that values innovation continuous improvement and engineering excellence while keeping up with the latest technologies and development practices.

About the Role

In this position you will be working in an agile team on the EROAD SaaS application using the latest tools and technologies. You will be very competent in designing and developing software within a SOA using RESTful APIs and event-driven architecture.

You will enjoy working in a team of positive likeminded motivated people within a self-managed agile environment. You will be happy to be involved in peer reviews to ensure the team is following development best practice and keeping up with the latest technologies.

As a Software Engineer - Java Developer you will:

Architecture

• Design and architecture of specific features within the EROAD SaaS application.
• Key architectural considerations include: system security data integrity reliability testability sustainability and scalability.

Research

• EROAD is highly motivated to continue to use cutting edge development tools and keep up with the latest development processes.
• As part of this role there will be an ongoing requirement to research evaluate and recommend:
  • Appropriate tool chains
  • Improvements to development processes
  • Future technologies to pursue

Agile

• Embraces the Agile manifesto.
• Responsible for analysing work to be carried out estimates effort and risk associated with all changes.
• Provide effective communication to stakeholders around teams goals and progress throughout the sprint.

Development and Implementation

• Hands-on developer to build and execute application development tasks.
• Work closely with others in the development team to assist with ensuring that best practice design and implementation is being followed.
• Follow programming best practice and coding guidelines version control automated build and test processes.

System Test and Deployment

• Design of test plans and unit tests to validate subsystems as well as the complete integration of the end-to-end system.
• Drive the tuning effort and assist in scalability/performance tests.

Bug Fix and Continuous Improvement

• Continuous monitoring of system health and performance.
• Teams build test deploy and maintain their software products.
• As bugs are identified they need to be verified prioritised and resolved. You will be a key member of the team contributing to this process.
• Review performance reports and recommend improvements.

Skills and Experience

Competencies

• Able to design and build a high-availability scalable efficient application architectures and data models.
• Able to generate the required technical design documentation that can be easily understood by others in the development team.
• Able to define specific development outcomes.
• Able to define and implement appropriate tests monitoring and alerting for software applications.
• Previous experience as a Java developer
• Competent in designing and developing software within microservice architecture using RESTful APIs
• Experience with SQL databases especially Postgres
• Experience with REST services using JSON and XML
• Knowledge of common design patterns and when/how to use them
• Appreciation of usability design
• Experience in designing to address Non-functional requirements and making sensible design decisions (e.g. security scalability)
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture and concepts
• Web application frameworks including Spring MVC
• Linux/Unix command line knowledge
• Automated Unit testing design and implementation experience (e.g. TestNG Mockito AssertJ Citrus etc.)
• Familiarity with web/application servers ideally Tomcat and Glassfish
• Experience in developing against a version control system (e.g. Git and Github)
• Continuous integration and delivery (e.g. Concourse Jenkins Vagrant)
• Experience with containerisation and virtualisation platforms especially Docker
• Knowledge of standard monitoring and alerting practices

Desirable

• Bachelors degree
• Experience with large scale GIS payments and/or transactional systems
• JavaScript/React HTML5 CSS3 Ajax experience
• Process orchestration/workflow experience (e.g. BPEL)
• Experience in an IaaS environment like AWS to deliver high scale horizontally
• Experience with Android mobile application development
• Experience with caching in-memory databases and NOSQL

Why Youll Love Working at EROAD

EROAD is a true Kiwi success story in the tech sector! Publicly listed since 2012 were represented on the NZX and ASX and continue to grow rapidly across New Zealand Australia the Philippines and the USA.

At EROAD we value diversity and are proud to be a multicultural organisation. We invest in our people through comprehensive medical coverage unlimited sick leave employee recognition programs EAP offerings and continuous learning opportunities.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do we foster a culture of innovation collaboration and belonging where you can bring your ideas to life.

Join EROAD and be part of a purpose-driven organisation thats shaping the future of connected transport we cant wait to hear from you.