Job Description

Senior Java DeveloperJob descriptionAt Kshema, we are re-imagining agricultural insurance with the power of Public Cloud, GIS, Remote sensing and cutting-edge AI-based algorithms to assess, model and price insurance risks for farmers adequately. We are taking the latest advances in Mobile, Geospatial technologies and the web to empower the next generation of agricultural insurance. Would you like to be part of a dynamic team using cutting-edge technology to unlock value for our clients? Then we would love to get to know you!What you will work on:

• Lead a talented engineering team & build/enhance the API platform for agriculture insurance.

• Build new and exciting components in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency.

• Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by thousands of users of our platform.

• Make design decisions on the basis of performance, scalability, and future expansion.

• Provide technical leadership to other mobile and web development engineers. Help level up the team; share knowledge, conduct code, and design review; drive code quality and process improvement initiatives.

• Write clean and well-abstracted code that you are proud of, with extensibility and performance in mind.

• Work in cross functional teams with product managers, UX designers and QA engineers to ship quality software on-time.

• Collaborate with product management, leadership, research, and other teams to create the technical vision, and road map for the team.

• Contribute to all phases of SDLC including design, implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing of the features.

• Build efficient microservice components on cloud environment.

• Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team.

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Java Development.

• Proven track record of building and shipping high-quality backend API components .

• Deep knowledge in selecting, configuring, and integrating 3rd party SaaS or COTS solutions as well as coordinating the development of such solutions.

• Technical skills include strong Hands-on development on Spring Boot, JPA

• Strong SQL skills and experience and experience with relational and non-relational databases e.g. (Postgres/Oracle/Mongo).

• Broad experience in building interfaces between (cloud) solutions (Azure/AWS), API management and development.

• Detailed real-world experience with Scrum or similar agile methodologies

• Experience with the Azure platform is a plus.

• Outstanding communication skills and emotional intelligence

• Youve got positive energy. Youre optimistic about the future and determined to get there.

• You have a can do attitude.

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