Senior Backend Developer - Limassol

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