Senior Software Developer

Senior SW Developer

Verisure Securitas Direct creates services and products for smarter, safer and more secure homes, serving customers throughout Europe and Latin America.

We are an award winning ‘Internet of Things’ company, specializing in home security and safety, and have amassed a wealth of experience and expertise over more than 25 years. Unlike many competitors, we keep most work in-house to guarantee premium quality every step of the way. 

Our office in Madrid is a top R&D Center in the connected smart home market. Here we create and develop services and products for home security and home automation. We are specialists in home safety and customer integrity issues and have amassed a wealth of experience and expertise over more than 25 years. We do most things in-house to guarantee premium quality every step of the way.

Job description

We are looking for a dynamic candidate, customer and result oriented, driven by processes and methodology, with high technological background and powerful negotiation/communication skills.

Do you want to have an impact every day by making people safe - and bringing them peace of mind? Interested in being part of a dedicated, passionate team which believes that security is a human right? Looking to join a company where innovation and technology are at the heart of its solutions? Then this is your opportunity.

Our people take care of people, we connect caring, knowledgeable and decisive experts with innovative technology to protect what matters most.

Main Responsibilities

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As we are living in a place where changes are the constant thing, technology gives us power to do and have better things that’s why Securitas Direct is looking for Senior Developer at our Technology Hub in Madrid. We are looking for a passionate, Senior Software Engineer with experience in front and backend development, architecture and API solutions. As a Senior Developer, you will lead with a team of experienced Software engineers, helping the team to succeed in their goals.

We would like to be platform owners, so we develop in a high quality environment, implementing SW development best practices and maintaining our platform with a zero bugs target.

You will interact with internal and external staff which demands a continuous communication and teamwork. Relevant international display (Europe & South America) for the technical solution integration of the other countries, which are part of the group Securitas Direct.

Responsibilities:

• Define viable solutions in the context of Verisure IT ecosystem
• Evaluate alternatives from the architecture level; whether it is a product, SaaS or Cloud Solutions, on-premises for uses in Monitoring Station projects.
• Ensure and help the teams to correctly define non-functional requirements. 
• Ensure compliance of best practices in integration, architecture, testing and strategic IT guidelines.
• Ensure compliance with Security guidelines, regulations and company policies.

Required Qualifications

• Master/ B.A in Computer Engineer or Telecommunications.
• Fluent level of English (B2)
• +8 years of probable experience in IT.

Technical skills

• Deep knowledge as Java backend engineer in a distributed environment.
• Expertise in relational and non-relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, Mongo, etc)
• Own the software development lifecycle in a DevOps culture.
• Knowledge of container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
• Expertise in messaging JMS or brokers (rabbitMQ, Kafka, etc).
• Cache DB (Redis, Coherence)
• Knowledge or experience in micro services architectures and moving from monolithic to microservice Architecture.
• Good understanding of end2end software solutions.
• KPI solution measurement knowledge. What to measure and where?
• Performance solving experience. Finding, avoiding and solving bottlenecks.
• Public and private cloud architecture.
• Experience in Agile Methodologies

SW design knowledge:

• Archetypes and design patterns
• Sonar rules
• Ensuring best practices as a transversal topic for every Scrum teams in the department.

Additional Skills That Would Be a Plus:

• Experience in front end development of mobile applications.
• Experience in TDD or BDD.
• Basic networking knowledge.
• BPM, ESB, Rules Engine, API Management

Soft Skills

• Coach and mentor team members
• Communication skills to align product owner, scrum master and development team necessities
• Focus on making things happen
• Self-organi