Software Engineer, Innovation

Short company description

Join our team! We're hiring in Bucharest!

We've had a presence in Bucharest since 2014, starting with an acquisition of a small team of developers. By late 2016 we had expanded to 20 people and by the end of 2017 we had 40. We continue to invest in and develop our Romania presence aiming to double in size once again some time in 2019. 
Additionally, where we previously concentrated on engineering capacity, we have built a broader and deeper team extending to architecture, product design, and product management so we can have completely self-sufficient and co-located product teams.  

Requirements

A Bachelor’s Degree in a related field.
Some experience. We’d love to hire someone with a lot of proven experience but we’re more focused on finding the right cultural fit—maybe you’re early in your career in looking to take the next step. If so, come and meet us and maybe we’ll provide that opportunity for you. As long as you think you have what it takes to do this job, we’d love to meet you.
A brain that is wired to go expediently from insight to action, understanding that perfection can be the enemy of the good.
good communication in English.
Experience with Javascript, Java, Python, CSS, HTML5
Experience in server side JavaScript libraries like node.js.
Exposure to Chef / RPM based deployments
Understanding of JDBC, SQL, Relational Databases.
Proficiency in Web Services.

Responsibilities

You Will:

Collaborate with leadership across design, product management and engineering to establish Ideation sessions for our products.
Collaborate with Architecture group to come up with the best design.
Writes detailed design documents describing the approach to be taken and programming details;
Codes application instructions into the local environment.
Reviews code to ensure compliance with coding standards and to ensure that defined requirements are met. Makes recommendations for improvements.
Fixes defects found. Repeats the testing cycle until the new application works flawlessly. Prepares related documentation.
Responds to and resolves escalated calls for technical assistance received from production support.
Manages the delivery of assigned modules on time and budget with high quality.

Other info

It would be great if you also have:

Understanding of No-SQL DB like Mongo or Cassandra.
Exposure to Linux based platform
Experience with microservices development
Experience working in an agile environment (especially in a software development organization that has (effectively) adopted Scrum.
Be ready to tell us some stories that support the above.

It would be mind-blowingly awesome if you also have:

Experience building something on your own. Open source, start-up, app, etc
Something else that we’d be surprised to learn about you that also qualifies as awesome. (Cliff-diver? Community leader? Artist/musician?)
Surprise us with what you can bring to the table!