Software Engineer

About Liferay

Liferay, Inc. is a uniquely profitable B2B enterprise software company with 1,200+ fiery-eyed employees all across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As a renowned provider of enterprise open source technologies, we have been recognized by Gartner for empowering businesses around the world to solve complex digital challenges. Liferay Experience Cloud is an all-in-one solution that unites our Liferay DXP and cloud platform capabilities with built-in analytics and B2B commerce functionality, reducing the time to market and allowing for accelerated innovation - serving notable customers across the globe such as Airbus, US Bank, Honda, and Desjardins.

We are driven by a greater-than-profit vision. By building a vibrant business, making technology useful, and investing in communities, we enable people to reach their full potential to serve others. We give our employees five days off to volunteer at charities they’re excited about, and Liferay donates 10% of our profits to charities around the world. We are also self-funded, which gives us the freedom to work on what brings the most value to customers and communities in the long run!

About You and this Role

Backend Software Engineer, with strong Java (or similar) knowledge and experience. You will work both on maintaining existing components and creating new ones. You’ll participate in the implementation, as well as in the definition of the work itself, and we expect you to share your opinion openly, both from the perspective of a user and as an engineer. You’ll work with widespread frameworks and tools (OSGi, Gradle, JAX-RS, REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI…) and some in-house technologies (like our custom REST Builder). We don’t expect you to know everything, but you need strong learning abilities to equip yourself with the necessary knowledge.

Key Objectives

• You are willing to work in API infrastructure (GraphQL and REST), enabling teams across the world to build powerful features.
• You’re an experienced Java developer, or you’ve worked with similar object oriented languages.
• You’re used to working with big codebases, as well as developing components from scratch.
• You have experience with software engineering best practices : simplicity, testing, coherence, reviews, estimation…
• You possess a broad understanding of common Computer Science concepts (algorithms, data structures, performance…).
• You’re willing to actively participate in the team dynamics, and provide feedback both from the technical and end user perspective when defining new features.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

What We Offer

Equal Opportunities Employer

Liferay is committed to the equal treatment of all candidates, customers and employees and to fostering a culture of dignity at work. Our operating procedure provides for equal opportunities in recruitment and employment with the aim to eliminate discrimination against any job applicant or employee on the basis of race, age, sexual orientation, gender, religion or beliefs, marital or civil partnerships status, family or dependency status, disability, pregnancy and maternity or membership of a traveling community.

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