Software Engineer, Java

Software Engineer, Java (Mobile Ordering) 
Limerick, Ireland (Hybrid) 

Who we are 

Transact Campus and CBORD have joined forces as industry leaders to bring the best integrated technology solutions to education, healthcare, and business campuses worldwide. Be a part of this exciting new partnership, committed to transforming organizations and improving the lives of people doing mission-critical work. 

 
Why join our team? 

We strive to provide the very best customer experience in the industry and have succeeded with a single, strong motivating principle: We serve our user community. 
 
Our success and growth are directly attributed to our people. Our newly combined companies are dedicated to fostering a culture of integrity, respect, and continuous personal development. We maintain an entrepreneurial spirit, where creativity, innovative problem-solving, and learning agility drive our day-to-day actions. 

Role 

As a Java Backend Developer for Transact’s Mobile Ordering solution, you will be responsible for improving and maintaining the backend Java API’s & Infrastructure for a best-in-class mobile solution used by millions of students.

You will be working on payment gateway integrations; third-party delivery integrations, point-of-sales integrations, expansion of loyalty capabilities, SQL performance tuning, unit tests, general code clean up, refactoring and code maintenance. 

Specifically, you are responsible for: 

• Working with the Engineering Manager and Product Owner to understand and implement functionality for new features and integrations. 

• Analysing problems and implementing solutions that trade off architectural constraints of functionality, usability, performance, reliability, and scalability. 

• Supporting the life cycle of the application during quality assurance, user acceptance testing, and post release. 

• Complying with and contributing to consistent development guidelines (coding, change control, build, versioning). 

• Participating in code reviews and architecture design sessions/workshops. 

• Code refactoring, clean up, technical maintenance 

• SQL performance tuning 

About You 

• 4+ years of backend Java development leveraging Java EE servlets with Tomcat and JDBC 

• Spring Boot development experience. Ideally you will have experience in migrating from Servlets to Spring Boot. 

• Experience navigating third-party API specs to integrate new functionality with robust HTTP networking practices. 

• Thorough understanding of SQL and writing efficient and optimized queries. 

• In-depth understanding of object-oriented programming, design patterns and principles. 

• Ability to understand technical requirements and decompose them into work tasks. 

• Excellent communication and fluency in written and spoken English are required. 

• Writing Unit & Integration tests. 

Desired Skills: 

• Enterprise, Solution or Application architecture design 

• Event driven/message bus architecture 

• Cloud PaaS/IaaS, ideally Azure 

• Terraform 

• Docker 

• Azure DevOps & Github Actions C.I Pipelines 

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

 
Transact is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, colour, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, or any other protected factor.