Software Engineer - Java developer

Software Engineer - Java developer

MAIN PURPOSE 

Richemont is looking for a talented and highly motivated Software Engineer - Java developer to join our enthusiastic and dynamic team, “Omnichannel Sales”. Agility and commitment are more important than current skill set, although certain core skills are required. All candidates should be highly motivated, have technical flair, an interest in all things technology, excellent programming skills in Java, whilst also having strong experience of backend and middleware related frameworks and technologies. Experience eCommerce solutions is a plus. 

As a Software Engineer, you will be working on challenging projects for the Richemont Maisons. You will be part of a cross-functional team of Software Engineers, Product Specialists, and architects, you will develop, test, debug, deploy and support java-based solutions granting full adherence with Group & Maisons’ standards and needs in terms of solutions and operations. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Understand business and technical context, requirements, constraints and business objectives. 

• Be able to explain and communicate technical options. 

• Follow defined development methodologies and tools.  

• Interpret business requirements and technical specifications. 

• Investigate, analyse, document and track status of reported defects using standard tools. 

• Perform maintenance programming and correction of identified defects 

• Create and maintain technical documentation 

• Help to define and validate functional and technical specifications. 

• Additional related activities as identified and required. 

PROFILE 

• Experience 

• 5 years’ experience in a similar domain 

• Strong and confirmed experience in Java development. 

• Strong technical background in internet related technologies including open source, J2E, and ability to discover new ones. Pragmatic and not dogmatic. 

• Experience of the full software development lifecycle: from requirements gathering and functional specification, to development, testing and delivery. 

Education 

• Engineer degree preferred in an IT-related field 

• Solid professional references 

• Technical competencies: 

• Excellent knowledge of Java 17, 21 & associated technology stack. 

• Advanced knowledge of Spring ecosystem: Spring Boot (3.x), Spring Data JPA / Hibernate, Spring Cloud… 

• Web formats and protocols: JSON, XML, HTTP, SOAP, WSDL, REST etc. 

• Microservice / distributed system and Event Driven architectures (AMQP, JMS, Pub/Sub) 

• Experience working with RDBMS (MySql) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB) 

• At ease with development tools and processes like Maven, Git, IntelliJ… 

• Experience with modern build strategies, continuous integration, unit testing 

• Agile methodologies. 

• Technical knowledge and experience with e-Commerce processes and solutions. 

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes is an asset. 

• Personal qualities 

• Good communication skills, with high attention to detail 

• Fluent in English. French and other languages are a plus. 

• Ability to communicate with people from the business and technical fields. 

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills. Focused and agile under pressure. 

• Strong customer service focus, with the ability to communicate with highly technical and business teams  

• Ability to work in a flat and versatile organization, and on multi-national / -cultural projects 

• English and French, both fluent, other languages are a plus 

• You must have an excellent perception of the issues and has an uncanny knack of being able to uncover the true story.