Senior / Lead Java Software Engineer (m/f) FinTech Application at smava GmbH (Berlin, Germany)

Are you up for a successful grown-up start-up headquartered in Berlin-Friedrichshain?

smava is one of the biggest FinTech employers and has received several awards, including the price for Innovator 2019 and the Top Employer 2019. Our company grows by 80 % each year – become part of the smava story now! And let us grow together.

We are, smava – the online credit comparison. We make loans transparent, fair and cheap!

Our IT-Team focuses on the continuous improvement of our smava ecosystem for the personal credit solutions. We constantly develop our online loan comparison platform and implement new product features. The whole application system consists of more than 90 microservices. That is why we are looking for highly skilled Senior Java Software Engineer (m/f) – FinTech Application who has strong experiences in designing and building scalable high-performing applications in Java and Spring Boot. Sounds like something you can do? Apply now and join one of the most well-funded FinTech companies in the field of B2C financial market!

Senior Java Software Engineer (m/f) – FinTech Application

 What we offer:

• Signing bonus, because every great decision should be rewarded


• Relocation bonus (in case you are relocating to Berlin)


• An exciting opportunity in an innovative and fast-growing FinTech company


• A personal budget for personal education and training


• Employer-funded pension


• Onboarding support (e.g. assistance visa application/work permit, German health insurance, accommodation) 


• Subsidized lunch offer (smunch.co) and subsidized public transport ticket (VBB Umweltkarte)


• Discounted fitness offers close to the office


• Flexible working hours


• Free language courses


• Brown Bag Lunches, Hackathons, Beer Friday, Cookie Friday and team events


• Open communication, flat hierarchy and fast execution


• Smart colleagues from all around the world (35+ nationalities)

Your tasks:

• Being able to investigate the Java code fast and independently within microservices environment


• Prepare and explain technical concepts for your less senior colleagues


• Examine dependencies between components


• Understand business domain and be able to identify automated test strategies


• Constantly deliver good quality code on time


• Identify potential ways to improve and ease production delivery (alerts, reports, monitoring)

Must haves:

• You have gained 3 years of development expertise with Java, Spring (Dependency Injection, Transaction, REST\MVC) after passing university degree as a Software Engineer


• You have worked with Java, Spring Boot at least in one project


• You have successfully implemented microservices in production


• You have a proven record of solved problems with the outstanding results


• You like tricky challenges and are always happy to help to your peers and advice on queries related to applications in production grade


• Experience in building distributed, scalable and resilient infrastructure


• Proven expertise with messaging services (e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ or JMS)


• You possess SQL data management knowledge


• Working experience in an agile driven and fast moving environment


• Good understanding of software design patterns and best practices


• Able to communicate clearly with managers and the team members

Not necessarily needed, but also helpful:

• Working experiences with Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Development (CD)


• Expertise in dealing with distributed streaming platforms like e.g. Apache Kafka

Your mindset:

• Passion for software development


• Solution-driven


• Open minded


• Focused


• Able to communicate clearly

Technology Stack:

• Java 8


• Java Spring Boot framework (DI, Security, Scheduling, Tx, Spring REST, Spring AOP)


• Spring Cloud Netflix (e.g. Eureka, Ribbon)


• Messaging JMS / AMQP


• Maven


• PostgreSQL, Redis

We are looking forward to receiving your application including:

• CV, salary expectations and earliest starting date addressed to Michal Szafraniec (030/6174800-14)


• In case you are not an EU citizen: we also need a copy of your academic degree, valid passport and residence permit (e.g. Blue Card, Visa or Work Permit) - if you already have one.   

Note that it will not proceed with your application without the documents mentioned above.

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