Engineering Tech Lead

About Us:

Planet is a leading technology company transforming payments by putting customer experience first. We offer integrated solutions that include payment processing, VAT refunds, dynamic currency conversion, and management services for merchants in the Retail and Hospitality sectors worldwide.

In recent years, we have experienced significant growth, expanding our services and global presence. 

With strong private equity investors, Advent International and Eurazeo, we have the financial capital and expertise to grow our capabilities and reach through acquisitions.

Our mission is to create a world of connected commerce where payments are simple, secure, and seamless, enabling our partners to deliver exceptional experiences to their customers.

Role overview:

We are looking for a Senior Java or Full Stack developer responsible for leading a team as the Tech Lead in building Java applications for our Hospitality Property Management System. This includes anything between complex groups of back-end services and API’s. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop these applications, and to coordinate the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure. Thus, a commitment to leading a scrum team in collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design, and product quality is essential.

What you will do:

• Coordinate scrum team activities serving as, or collaborating with, the Scrum Master for the team

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications and provide architecture and design direction to the scrum team engineers

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code

• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications

• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems

• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization

Who you are:

• Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems

• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming

• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns

• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries

• Knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful

• Experience with AWS, Spring, Redis, SQL and ElasticSearch is a plus

• Knack for writing clean, readable Java code

• Experience with both external and embedded databases

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

• Basic understanding of the class loading mechanism in Java

• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

• Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds

• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle

• Familiarity with continuous integration

• Experience within Hospitality domain is a plus

Why Planet :

Planet is an equal opportunity employer where diversity is valued, and all employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

Come and grow your career in the most exciting, fast paced technology market, with a business that delivers feel-good connected commerce. We would love to hear from you – Apply now.

At Planet, we embrace a hybrid work model, with three days a week in the office.
 

Reasonable accommodations may be made in order to allow for an individual to perform the essential functions of this role successfully.