The team at UKEESS Software House is currently looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join us for a full-time position (remotely in Ukraine or in Lviv’s office).

About the Customer and the Project:

Our customer is the world’s largest DNA network from the USA. With more than 60 billion digitized global historical records, 100 million family trees, and 18+ million people in their growing database, our customers help people discover their family stories and gain actionable insights about their health and wellness.

Technologies stack: Java 17/ Spring Boot / Spring (JDBC, REST) / Mockito / JUnit / AWS (S3, IAM) / Terraform / MySQL

In this role, you will be a leading contributor in designing and implementing the next generation of the project to deliver billions of discoveries to customers. You will be part of a team that significantly increases the user’s experience and directly influences their satisfaction.

Responsibilities will include:

• Help architect, design, and develop complex, large-scale systems that process billions of historical records every day
• Identify opportunities to adopt innovative technologies
• Create architectures and diagrams that describe them
• Work on and guide microservice REST API design
• Write key algorithms to maximize scalability and reliability
• Write code and unit tests
• Conduct code reviews
• Work with various AWS services and create new services using Terraform, configure communication between the services and applications
• Diagnose complex problems involving multiple systems and technologies
• Be an example of engineering excellence

Requirements:

• Recent and proficient experience with building large-scale web services
• Micro-service expertise
• 5+ years of commercial experience with Java
• Strong knowledge and experience with Spring and Spring Boot
• Solid knowledge and experience with SQL
• Commercial experience with the Amazon Web Services ecosystem
• Experience with Gradle or Maven
• Experience with CI/CD
• Knowledge or experience with JUnit, Mockito
• English: Upper-intermediate level at least (both spoken and written)

It will be a plus:

• Knowledge or experience with .NET
• Strong knowledge or experience with Terraform
• Container experience

What do we offer our new colleague?

• Competitive compensation (based on market data, but also depending on the technical level of the candidate)
• Flexible work schedule
• 3 health packages to choose from
• Annual paid vacation and state holiday celebration
• Free English classes (online)
• Individual approach to professional growth
• Lack of bureaucracy and micromanagement
• Modern, comfortable office facilities (a barbecue zone, kitchens, lounge rooms, coffee machines, etc.)
• Foreign business trips
• On-site parking lot and charge station for Electric Cars
• Corporate gifts, celebrations, and fun activities

If you have a passion for solving challenging problems, building scalable, robust systems, love working with the latest technologies in a fast-paced, flexible environment, and are excited at the prospect of having a significant impact on products with more than 3 million paying subscribers, then we want to talk to you! 😉