Senior Java Software Engineer

SUMMARY

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Senior Java Engineer, offering competitive pay and medical coverage at 100%, along with a comprehensive benefits package.

Your duties include working alongside the Scrum Master, Product Owners, Developers, QA and DevOps teams to implement new product features and maintain or improve the existing Pole Star products

You will become part of a small, dynamic team with two main functions; developing new services whilst upgrading and maintaining existing core business systems

You will get to experience all facets of development - design, infrastructure, development, testing and deployment

This is not a remote position and you should expect to have to travel to the St. Petersburg office on a consistent basis.

Technology Stack and Skills

Required skills

• Java 8+
• Spring framework / Spring Boot
• JBoss
• Tomcat
• Linux (as administrator)
• SQL
• AWS (EC2, RDS, Cloudformation, CodeDeploy)
• TDD

Desirable Skills

• HTML/CSS/Javascript

Desirable development tools experience

• Eclipse
• Git / GitHub
• JIRA
• Jenkins
• Maven

Personal qualities

• Good communication skills, both written and spoken English.
• Ability to work autonomously or in a team
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new challenges
• Curiosity

Travel required

Ability for up to 10% travel, particularly to London, England. Typically and in normal times, this would be once or twice a year.

Other requirements

This position requires completion of an FBI Summary History Report (i.e. background check) and may require a security clearance in the future. Employment is based on satisfactorily being able to complete both the FBI Summary History Report and the future security clearance.

This position requires use of or access to information subject to the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) or the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). Accordingly, all applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of these regulations. Under ITAR, a U.S. person is defined as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, or a person who is a protected individual under the immigration and Naturalization Act (8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)).

Pole Star is a U.S. Government contractor and is subject to and shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a), and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against employees or qualified applicants based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

COVID-19 Considerations

Pole Star Space Applications abides by the instructions and guidance of the CDC and WHO in

order to protect all staff during the COVID 19 pandemic. The following measure have been put in place for the health and safety of our employees:

• Enhanced cleaning of common, high touch areas
• Social distancing policies
• Masks in common areas (required by the property management company)
• Travel policy
• COVID Scenarios (if you feel you may have in contact with or contracted COVID 19)

Pay and Benefits

Pole Star offers benefits that are designed to lead an evolving marketplace and encourage a health balance between work and life. Highlights of those benefits are listed below:

• Competitive salary, paid bi-monthly
• Medical, Vision, Dental, Disability insurance
• Life insurance, company funded to 3x salary
• 20 days holiday (can buy or sell more days)
• 10% Annual bonus available
• 5% 401K pension scheme
• Gym membership subsidy
• Charity and volunteering day (paid)
• Refer-a-friend recruitment bonus scheme