job specification

We are still looking for the very Top Talent…and we would be delighted if you were to join our team!

More in details, UST is a multinational company based in North America, certified as a Top Employer and Great Place to Work company with over 35.000 employees all over the world and presence in more than 35 countries. We are leaders on digital technology services, and we provide large-scale technologic solutions to big companies.

What we look for?

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our SRE team as a Java engineer driving reliability, scalability, and performance through automation, observability, and robust engineering solutions.

You’ll lead key SRE initiatives, optimise complex systems, and influence high standards across the wider engineering community in the project of our client from the banking sector.

High english level is required.

⚙ Key Responsibilities:

• You will technically lead a group of engineers responsible for maintaining and improving our back-end services for our most critical customer and/or data applications within the cloud.
• Through your team and hands-on engineering, help to shape and deliver the goals and vision set out by your Site Reliability Engineering Manager (SREM).
• Contribute to the major optimisation and improvement themes within the team. Identifying opportunities to reduce operational overheads through observability and service automation.
• Drive engineering best practice (e.g., Operational Excellence, Security, Quality, Resilience etc.) and set standards across the team and wider SRE community.
• Innovate within your team and contribute within your technical domain.
• Deliver key pieces of intent from inception through to design and hands-on delivery, in collaboration with your SREM.
• Estimate, scope and plan your work within an agile environment.
• Be part of a 24/7 on-call rotation (paid additionally).

Mandatory requirements:

• Production-grade experience of developing and managing APIs using Java & Springboot. Excellent understanding of SOLID principles, SOA, and REST.
• Good knowledge of Maven or Gradle.
• Production experience running microservices on container orchestration architectures.
• Passionate about API testing utilising tools similar to Wiremock, Pact, Postman and Cucumber.
• Good understanding of API authentication and authorisation mechanisms like OAuth.
• Knowledge using monitoring & logging tools to troubleshoot problems in a distributed network of systems.
• Excellent understanding of infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipeline management via Jenkins.
• Development experience within a cloud environment.
• Strong experience in back-end architectural and design patterns.
• English C1

Nice to have:

• Experience working in a highly regulated environment, like banking
• Experience with Docker
• AWS certification
• Experience with TDD and BDD

¿What can we offer?

-✈️ 23 days of Annual Leave plus the 24th and 31st of December as discretionary days!

-❤️ Numerous benefits (Heath Care Plan, Internet Connectivity, Life and Accident Insurances).

- `Retribución Flexible´ Program: (Meals, Kinder Garden, Transport, online English lessons, Heath Care Plan…)

- Free access to several training platforms

- Professional stability and career plans

- UST also, compensates referrals from which you could benefit when you refer professionals.

- The option to pick between 12 or 14 payments along the year.

- Real Work Life Balance measures (flexibility, WFH or remote work policy, compacted hours during summertime…)

- UST Club Platform discounts and gym Access discounts

If you would like to know more, do not hesitate to apply and we’ll get in touch to fill you in details. UST is waiting for you!

In UST we are committed to equal opportunities in our selection processes and do not discriminate based on race, gender, disability, age, religion, sexual orientation or nationality. We have a special commitment to Disability & Inclusion, so we are interested in hiring people with disability certificate.