Java Developer

Overview

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people." (Steve Jobs).

It is an incredible time to join our team and become one of the first ‘xplorers’ that help us grow and expand Xplore Group in Spain. Xplore Group is the most successful independent JAVA and PHP solution provider in the Benelux, present in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain. We have offices in cities such as Hasselt, Antwerp, Eindhoven, Amsterdam and Valencia.

Our team of highly skilled ‘xplorers’ has a unique approach, combining the experience of world-leading platforms with best practices and the latest technologies, delivering the best experience to our customers.

Xplore Group consists of 45 competence centres, each with their own unique focus on one of the lead technologies, like AWS, Salesforce, Hybris, RPA, Kubernetes. . We have gone from 400 to 1200 employees in the last three years.

We have a clear view of the direction we want to take. We work in multidisciplinary teams, where good practices and high standards are of the highest importance. We use testing, continuous integration and delivery to reduce the time to market for our clients.

Do you want to work in an international company with a startup mentality, where you can speak openly, contribute with creative ideas, learn from experienced colleagues, help us grow and become a key member of the company?

What you will be doing

You will work in one of our international projects and be part of one of our squads with team members from Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands. You will communicate in English and memes, and use agile methodologies like Scrum and Kanban.

You will put together good practices and collaborate with team members and the client to define, design and develop new functionalities.

You will apply SOLID principles and create unit tests for your functionality, validating it with the CI in Jenkins and measuring it with Sonar.

The first week

You will receive and set up your MacBook PRO and equipment that will allow you to work very efficiently. Alfredo Gil, our Managing Partner and CTO, will introduce you to your colleagues. You will start your training and enjoy your first free weekly meal.

In 30 days

You will be an active member of the squad. With your professional way of working and our help, you will be of great added value to your team. By taking group decisions you will help shape our awesome culture and take it to the next level. You will experience for yourself how fun and rewarding it can be to work in an international environment.

You will discover the challenges of your new project. Don’t worry if you don\'t have all the technical skills yet, with the help of your teammates, you\'ll already be running at full capacity. You will experience that your English improves quickly by drinking Belgium beer at your first after-work event. Your team is eager to meet you!

In three months

You will have responsibility and ownership of one of the important parts of the e-commerce project. The client will mention the good job that you are doing.

In six months

You will be at maximum performance! Every day thousands of clients make use of your developments and have a happy shopping experience in our clients\' webshops.

The international tech team of our client will congratulate you for all the value that you provide. You will pass your trial period with flying colours and you’ll have the opportunity to choose your hardware that will make you type faster than flash. And now, it is time to celebrate!

Where you will be doing it

Our offices are in Edificio Europa, Avenida de Aragon in the heart of Valencia’s city centre. In our 13th floor with our stunning views of all the city of Valencia, we can even see the sea from a window on the same floor. In the area, there are plenty of restaurants, cafes, shops, gyms and green areas (Valencia is very cycle-friendly). You can use super-efficient public transport; the metro is right across the street from our building.

What you bring :

• Java (11, 17+)
• Spring 5 Framework (core, boot, security, data, batch …)
• Hibernate, JPA
• Event streaming and messaging systems such as Kafka or AMQP or JMS, … based solutions
• CI / CD, pipelines as code, Sonar, Snyk, ...
• Maven / Gradle
• ElasticSearch
• RabbitMQ
• Docker, Kubernetes & Openshift
• Solid understanding of REST API’s and / or GraphQL
• Deployments on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform …
• Junit, Mockito
• Flyway, Liquibase, … for database schema versioning
• Working knowledge of OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), JWT’s, …
• Agile / Scrum
• Atlassian stack (JIRA, Confluence, …)
Nice to have :
• NodeJs
• Javascript / Typescript
• MongoDB

What we bring

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