Principal Back-end Engineer (offline)

What will you do
• Writing cleaning and maintaining code using the best engineering practices, such as design patterns, TDD, peer reviews and continuous integration and delivery. Researching new technologies and providing overall technical direction for the team
• Providing leadership and guidance to coaching, motivating, and leading team members to their optimum technical skills.
• Helping build R&D culture that strives for continues improvement.
• Understanding business drivers, market requirements and competitive issues that will drive the definition of new features and services.
• Working closely with the Architecture team to drive technical decisions across the team
• Providing best practice guidance for the software delivery life cycle, including architecture, design, implementation, testing and maintenance.
• Collaborating with the product management by providing technical insight and judgment of feature/schedule/cost tradeoffs.
• Ensuring that product architecture and technology decisions support corporate strategies and the future direction of the overall company product portfolio.

Skills and Experience
• Master or Bachelor’s in Computer Science
• 8+ years’ experience in software development. 3+ of which as a Senior Software Engineer in cyber-security company, using one of: C# / Java / Golang
• Proven success delivering high quality distributed systems with complex requirements in an Agile environment
• Solid grasp of software development life cycle, best-practices and methods across multiple teams: Agile development, DevOps CI & CD, team leadership, Test Automation
• Very strong technical and programming background, software design, and architecture expertise
• Programming knowledge of high performance/scale server systems performance optimization, parallel and distributed processing, microservices, security development principles, design patterns, etc.
• Knowledge of SLQ and NoSQL, RabbitMQ / Kafka, ELK, Redis - advantage
• Experience with K8S- advantage
• Experience with Web development, using React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js - advantage

Other
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, team player.
• Ability to explore and drive new ideas and technologies, think, and learn independently
• Comfortable with the startup-like environment
• Fluent in English


We offer
• 8-hour working day without fixed timetable;
• Paid vacation (20 working days) and sick leave (2 weeks) +5 days of undocumented sick leave;
• English courses and international communication with specialists from the connected area;
• Cozy office in the center of Dnipro with friendly staff;
• Competitive salary.

About Covent IT

Covent IT is a group of professionals that have been providing IT and human resource services since 2007. Being a hierarchical system, our company embraces a number of specialized independent branches that follow Covent Group standards in pursuit of a common goal.

Once a startup, today our company has grown to multiple locations in different countries. At the enterprise level, we have managed to combine corporate culture and standards while maintaining the freedom, creativity and spirit of the startup in the field. Our programmers are part of IT communities around the world, which allows us to be in the trend of technologies, worldwide processes, providing you with the highest quality products and services. We can boast of an extensive portfolio with a deal of successful cases for government institutions, small and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and startups.

Company website:
https://coventit.com/

DOU company page:
https://jobs.dou.ua/companies/covent-it/