Our client is one of the most reputable and well-established Group of Companies offering Financial Services in the FinTech sector. Their Software Development Team is growing, and they are seeking to recruit a Senior Backend Developer.
Responsibilities:
- Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focus on coding and debugging
- Liaise with other developers, QAs and business analysts to identify new features
- Clearly understand and process requirements coming from the Product team
- Define technical and design requirements
- Work and communicate as part of a team of Developers, QAs and System analysts, as well as help and support the other team members
- Build effective, optimized, high-quality and well-documented code related to CRM functionality, financial transactions, blockchain (advantage), API integrations with payment gateways and other third-party systems as well as database structure and optimization
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team, propose and implement solutions
- Identify areas of improvement in our system performance and advocate for back-end best practices
- Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic
- Debug errors, troubleshoot issues, and perform routine performance optimizations
- Develop automated tests to ensure business needs are met and allow for regression testing
- Test the quality of the code before submitting for QA
- Learn about new technologies and stay up to date with current best practices
- Support and train the internal teams and other team members
Requirements:
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field
- At least 5 years of development experience
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
- Experience on developing RESTful APIs
- Strong understanding of the web development cycle and programming techniques and tools
- Experience on developing backend applications using a popular framework
- A demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent performance and optimization problems
- Implement automated testing platforms and unit tests
- Good knowledge of relational databases
- Knowledge of JAVA or PHP or C# would be considered an advantage
- Knowledge of Spring or Laravel or .NET would be considered an advantage
- Experience on working with streaming platforms/message brokers like Apache Kafka will be considered as an advantage
- Team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal skills in English
- Ability to quickly learn a new programming language or development framework
- Growth mindset, challenging status quo to find new solutions and out-of-the-box ideas
- Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills
- The ability to communicate complex procedures to other colleagues
- Attention to detail and desire to probe further into data
Benefits:
- Quarterly bonuses based on performance
- Corporate fund scheme
- Discretionary yearly bonus based on company’s and personal performance
- Discount benefit card
- Friday Lunch and daily snacks and beverages at the office
- Yearly Training Budget Udemy membership per department
- Training opportunities for growth and personal development
- Paid 21 days holidays per year
For more information or to apply for the above opportunity, please email Marie Pavlou: marie.pavlou@emeraldzebra.cy
