Job description

This is a remote position.

For a European Institution in The Hague, we are currently looking for a Senior Java Developer with React for software development and maintenance.

Candidates need to be willing to work 1 week per 6 weeks on-site in The Hague, the Netherlands after Covid-19. Candidates need to be fluent in English. A work permit is required. EU candidates need to be fluent in English. This position is also open for contractors, who would like to commit long-term.

Due to corona, the start will be remote. As soon as the situation allows it, the role will become partly remote and 1 week on-site in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Tasks and responsibilities:

Complete the pertinent Design Document(s) for software development and maintenance;
Execute implementation of a high-quality solution that is aligned with the EU Agency’s architecture standards and high-level architecture requirements;
Monitoring of application logs to identify and react on exceptions which were not reported as an incident;
Commit code to the EU Agency’s GitHub (or any other relevant) code repository;
Setting up test environments for the purpose of SC2, SC3 and SC4 maintenance issues;
Configure pipelines to run necessary checks to allow for code basic validation;
Submit source code and build software according to the EU Agency’s CI/CD processes;
Perform all new builds within EU Agency environments, systems and on EU Agency technologies. Checking the completeness (in terms of dependencies) and the Sonar results (in terms of sanity) of the newly developed code;
Check the completeness and performance of the automatic tests (followed the automatic build process) of the changed or newly developed code;

Profile:

Bachelor or Master degree;
+7-years experience in coding with Python and/or Java, JavaScript and HTML;
In-depth knowledge of front-end development using React/Redux;
Proven and extensive experience in development of (backend) microservices;
Significant experience with cloud deployments (e.g. GCP and Azure), Kubernetes, DevOps and infrastructure engineering;
Hands-on experience with Linux and MS Windows environments;
Skilled in software development in a Kubernetes-based infrastructure, network policy servers, Load Balancers, deployment strategies and cluster security;
Knowledge of CI/CD pipeline building tools (GibHub, Apache Maven, Jenkins);
Ability to create Docker files, write Jenkinsfiles and Helm Charts;
Excellent knowledge of English (both written and verbal) is required;