Senior Java Developer

About BUX

BUX is a tech company that is rocking the world of finance. Our mobile app makes stock trading easy, exciting and affordable for everyone. Founded in 2014, BUX now has 1.2 million users across 8 countries in Europe. By taking down the barriers to the financial markets and reinventing the trading experience, we're helping new generations of first-time investors to discover the exciting world of the financial markets. Our unique culture is just one aspect that makes us stand out from the crowd. We offer a supportive environment that encourages innovation and creativity whilst maintaining a healthy lifestyle balance. You can expect real responsibility and recognition from day one. We are large enough to offer a wide variety of career opportunities, whilst small enough to treat you as an individual.

Position

• You'll design, build, and maintain a system that is meant to scale. We went from 1000 to more than 2 million users with barely any hiccups (Learn how we're doing it.)
• You'll work with an actor-based framework (like Akka), that is central to everything we do, and the heart of the scalability of our system
• We have a trading app that is accessible 24/7. We have very small maintenance window, so from a DevOps perspective you'll have the opportunity to think, plan, and execute the best ways to deploy our services 
• Lastly, the business domain is interesting. You will learn how the financial system works on the inside

Your qualification

• Expertise in Java, with strong object-oriented design skills
• Working knowledge of the Spring framework 
• Experience with DevOps tools and procedures
• An Agile mindset and working knowledge of the Scrum framework

Will be a plus

• Experience with building scalable (clustered) systems
• Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, CQRS, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Puppet
• Knowledge of reactive, actor-based systems

What we offer

• Conference & training budget for your professional development
• The possibility to work from abroad for 1 month every 12 months
• Cool office in the heart of Amsterdam (10 mins from Central Station) 
• Bi-weekly Hackathons, weekly drinks, fun company events
• Margy’s famous lunches

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of BUX.