Senior Back-end Engineer (Java/Spring) in Madrid or Remote

MotorK is the leading sales and marketing technology company in Europe, specialised in the automotive sector. At MotorK our mission is to empower manufacturers and dealerships to sell more with innovative, cloud-based products and services to offer the best digital customer experience.

We are on a fast and ambitious trajectory and serving 90% of the automotive manufacturers. To continue our growth, we are hiring new talents. If you want to spark the future of the automotive world, join us.

WHAT WE BELIEVE IN

We have five core values to live by and they make MotorK an amazing place to work.

• Innovative: we will transform the automotive marketplace
• Growth: we play on the global stage and we set ambitious goals for our people and products
• Passionate about our customers: we live & breathe Automotive, we're committed to long-term customer relationships, we win when our customers win
• Family spirit: we trust, support and respect each other, working together toward shared goals
• Do the right thing: we champion diversity & equality in our teams, we conduct ourselves with integrity and keep our promises

WHAT'S THE ROLE ABOUT

We’re looking for passionate and business oriented developers willing to help us raise our bar; code lovers who are experienced enough to know that for any given technical solution the execution is a key factor for success.

We’re constantly striving to be data driven. That means we measure everything that gives us insights we can use to continuously improve. We do that in a Lean way, using Kanban to represent our workflow while we’re using Scrum as an agile framework.

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE TO FIT THE ROLE

Must:

• Clear understanding of fundamental computer science and software engineering concepts (e.g. design patterns, algorithms, SOLID and KISS principles, scalability patterns)
• Extensive expertise of OOP in a Java 1.8 or later environment
• Hands-on with Spring Framework (JPA, Messaging, Restful, etc)
• Experience with third-parties systems integration and asynchronous jobs
• Experience with large domain models and complex distributed systems (components, SOA)
• Expertise with relational databases (MySQL) and ORM (Hibernate and Gorm)

• Great team player, able to perform with little or no supervision, always willing to contribute and add value where possible.
• Familiar with continuous delivery and with the principles of “you build it, you run it”

• Good spoken and written level of English

Extras:

• Knowledge of unit and functional testing and experience with TDD (JUnit and Spock)
• Deep understanding of Agile principles and best practices such as peer review, pair programming
• Knowledge on AWS, Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with NoSQL databases, eg. MongoDB

Nice to have:

• Grails framework knowledge
• Frontend JS and CSS knowledge (Vue.js, React)
• DDD and/or BDD experience
• Familiar with Grafana (ability to build dashboards and panels)

• Ship maintainable, robust and tested code in production
• Collaborate with POs and other devs to deliver value incrementally but constantly
• Understand our business needs to make sure you’re addressing them properly
• Liaise with the QA Engineers to test the user stories
• Identify and implement the best architectural solutions collaborating with the architects
• Help improving our way of working based on continuous improvement
• Speak and write in terms that non-technical people understand. Clear communication is super important in our environment

• Career Path
• Choose your own device
• Strong and rapid professional growth
• Strong focus on your learning - access to free learning platforms & language lessons + training budget
• Work remotely from any of the countries we operate in
• Be a part of an international, inclusive & diverse team