Java Engineer

About us: 

Grid Dynamics is the engineering services company known for transformative, mission-critical cloud solutions for retail, finance and technology sectors. We architected some of the busiest e-commerce services on the Internet and have never had an outage during the peak season. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Ramon, California with offices throughout the US and Eastern Europe, we focus on big data analytics, scalable omnichannel services, DevOps, and cloud enablement. 

Role overview: 

We are actively seeking a Java Engineer with strong technical expertise, who is interested in joining our growing projects for one of the biggest IT companies. 

Responsibilities: 

• Participate in the design and development of high-performance business applications, from requirements analysis to production
• Search for simple and robust solutions to complex tasks
• Work in an Agile methodology environment where innovation, teamwork, and creativity are the key to success
• Work with following backend technologies (but not limited to) : Java, Spring, Objectify, Protobuf, Guice, Mockito, JUnit4, Truth, Hamcrest, Google AppEngine DataStore

Requirements: 

• 3+ years in Software Development
• Education in Computer Science or similar theoretical knowledge in CS: algorithms and complexity estimation, data structures, operating systems, programming languages
• Excellent knowledge of Java platform (collections, concurrency, etc). A good understanding of JVM internals is a plus
• Experience in enterprise application development (Spring)
• Understanding of distributed architectures and scalability principles
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix-based operating systems (bash/ssh/ps/grep etc.)
• Understanding of SDLC and Agile methodologies in particular
• Hands-on experience with developer daily basis tools such as IDE’s, compilers, debuggers, profilers, version control systems, bug tracking systems, build systems (ANT, Maven2, etc), code coverage and automated testing tools
• Experience with unit and integration testing (JUnit, TestNG, Mockito, etc.)
• RDBMS experience (SQL, JDBC). Understanding of ORM frameworks internals is a plus
• Desire and ability to quickly learn new tools and technologies
• Ability to proactively identify and solve engineering problems
• Good interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written
• Good English skills (both spoken and written) are a must

• Work on bleeding-edge projects on a team of experienced and motivated engineers
• Flexible working hours
• Specialization courses 
• 24 days annual leave + an additional of 5 sick days 
• Floating Holidays
• Private medical subscription for employees and their family members
• Benefits basket with the total value of 650 euro/year gross