Java Software Engineer, Edge

Joining Collibra’s Edge Team

Are you interested in ushering in a new era of data participation? Collibra is 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. We're looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us in developing our Edge Platform. This team is responsible for providing a framework that allows engineers to easily integrate, deploy, upgrade, and manage Edge applications within the Collibra platform ecosystem for our customers. We are an engineering-driven company where your talent and skills are truly appreciated and maximized.

This is a hybrid role based in our Prague office. Our hybrid model means you’ll work from the office at least two days each week. This setup helps us stay connected, work more closely together, and keep making progress as a team.

As a Software Engineer at Collibra, you will be responsible for

• Actively participating in team meetings and sharing ideas.
• Knowing your own code by preparing for code reviews and being able to justify design patterns used.
• Understand user persons impacted by code with well defined user stories and concrete inputs and outputs.
• Write clear measurable test cases to validate user stories and assert output on positive and negative results.

You have

• 5+ years experience building scalable Java-based software applications, or 3+ years of experience and a Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Building cloud-native applications in Java & Spring with an eye towards operability, maintainability, and scaling.
• Experience with microservices architecture and multithreading.
• Industry experience and knowledge of:
  • Docker, Kubernetes, and preferably, Helm.
  • AWS or GCP infrastructure projects.
• Building cloud-native applications in Java with an eye towards operability, maintainability, and scaling.
• An interest in learning Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and/or ReactJS. 
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent related working experience is required.
• You must have work authorization to work in Prague, CZ.

You are

• Familiar with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and  tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins or GitHub Actions, and willing to deepen knowledge in this area. 
• Passioned about quality, good design, and clean code.
• Willing to share knowledge, to continue expanding your knowledge around new technologies as well as software development best practices.
• You are agile-minded and open to working in dynamic, iterative development environments.

Measures of success are

• Within your first month, you will get familiar with the environment we use, the way we implement software as an organization, participate in virtual stand-up’s, simple business use cases and submit your first code to production.
• Within your third month, you will implement new user stories with quality and care, and understand what value they will bring to our customers. You will recognize areas for improvement and begin to propose ideas to the team during stand-up’s.
• Within your sixth month, you will be a key part of the Edge Team, regularly delivering quality code, participating in testing, and providing constructive input on the design and approaches taken to improve our software.