Java Backend Engineer (Collibra) - Kafka / Kubernetes / Docker

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We're Ushering a New Era of Data Participation. We’re shaping the way companies manage data by helping customers connect the right data, insights, and algorithms for all Data Citizens. When everyone across the organization is enabled with data, true transformation can take place. We are building a team of exceptional people to help us deliver on that promise. If you are interested in a career at the leading edge of technology, we look forward to hearing from you.

How you'll make an impact at Collibra:

As a backend engineer in the Edge team, you will work on one of the core services provided by the Collibra platform. Edge is a key component in Collibra’s data integration strategy, enabling our cloud platform to access customer's data in the most secure way. You will also work intensively with the other development teams at Collibra, which are developing data processing flows on top of the Edge service.

Edge is deployed on top of a Kubernetes cluster and continuously deployed through Argo CD. A lot of our micro-services are developed in Java, communicating with each other over Kafka or REST. Not to mention that running in a cloud eco-system, horizontal scalability, resilience, rolling upgrades, and system observability are crucial. Ready to take up the challenge?

A day in the life of a Backend Engineer for Edge team at Collibra:

You'll be building exciting new features for Collibra platform, together with your Edge team members (fellow developers, PO, QA and UX). This means that you’ll share responsibility from beginning to end to deliver great quality software: - Formulate and suggest new ideas and features to the team to further improve our products. - Discuss technical solutions with your colleagues and the architecture team where necessary. - Track progress while keeping a fully working product at all times. - By all means keep our build, test and deploy pipelines healthy, all the time. - Together with the other developers in your team, you’ll implement the new functionalities with a passion for quality. You’ll review the code changes from your peers before they go into the mainline in Git. - Interact closely with the QA engineers to make sure you write the necessary tests and they can give you feedback early in the process. - Report on your progress by updating the status of the Jira tickets. - Demo fully finished parts to your team, and actively participate in the scrum ceremonies. - Achieve many great things of which to be proud, and fall asleep happily after a great working day.

We Offer you

A friendly and rapidly growing environment where your input will be valued and growth is fostered

Ongoing opportunities to collaborate with fellow Collibrians globally for team meetings, trainings, and conferences

Flexible hours- quality > quantity

Bi-monthly catered lunches, in addition to meal vouchers. Never go hungry again!

Did we mention happy hour?

A spacious office easily accessible from Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, etc. and a company car & fuel card or a mobility budget to get you there

A state-of-the art laptop

And of course, a very competitive salary with a strong benefits package

You are ...

- You are a backend developer with a passion for quality, good design and clean code

- You have 4+ years of experience in enterprise development using Java

- You have deep hands-on experience with Docker and preferable Kubernetes

- Knowledge of Kafka or any other stream-processing platform is more than welcome

- Experience with AWS or any other cloud platform like GCP is a great asset

- You’re a master in build - and test- tools and have experience with CI/CD

- You’re passionate about creating and finishing new things

- You love challenges and problem solving and have no fear for the unknown

- You are Agile-minded and have a positive mindset

- You’re fully capable of working in an English environment

- You are disciplined, flexible and willing to learn and improve