Java Team Lead
Datalex is a market leader in digital commerce for travel retail. Datalex provides airlines with unique products to drive revenue and profit as digital retailers. Today the Datalex Digital Commerce Platform enables a travel marketplace of over one billion shoppers covering every corner of the globe, driven by some of the world’s most innovative airline retail brands. Datalex’s customers include Air Lingus, Air Changan, Air China, Air Transat, Copa Airlines, Edelweiss, Emerald Airlines, Guangxi Beibu, Gulf Airlines, JetBlue Airways, KLM, SAS, Tianjin Airlines, Trailfinders, Turkish Airlines, Urumqi Air, Virgin Australia, and West Air. Group is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and maintains offices across Europe, the USA, and China. Datalex plc is a publicly listed company on Euronext Growth.
Project description:
As a Lead Software Engineer, you will be working with one of our full-stack engineering teams. Transforming our platform to be software as a service, developing the next-gen SAAS marketplace for airlines. Adding capabilities to our existing suite for customers like Virgin, SAS, Jet Blue, and Aer Lingus to name but a few.
Job Requirements:
Essentials:
- Minimum of 5 years experience in Java development, Web Services, and object-orientated principles. Highly proficient knowledge of Java
- 2+ years’ experience technically leading a Software Engineering team ideally within a fast-paced dynamic product-based company
- Experience in mentoring less experienced members of the team and overseeing the quality of their work
- Excellent understanding of software development practices and have worked in multi-disciplined teams before
- Solid experience in the development of highly available and scalable applications
- Ability to learn independently
Desirable:
- Degree in Computing or Science
- A good understanding of Agile principles whilst working with Scrum Teams
- Expert Knowledge is some of these technologies: Spring, J2EE, Memcached, REST, SOAP, JBoss, Tomcat, JDBC, React, JavaScript
- Practical experience with databases such as Oracle, Document DB, and Mongo DB
- Jenkins with a strong focus on pipelines and dev ops (SALT)
- Atlassian suite of products bitbucket/Jira/Confluence
Responsibilities:
- As a member of the Pod leadership team, your role will be split between development, providing technical support, and mentoring the team
- Supporting a co-located team of highly skilled engineers
- Technically hands-on providing estimates, designing, coding, and debugging alongside the team
- Working as part of an Agile environment
- Working closely with our quality and performance engineers