About this role
The Lead Full-stack Engineer will design, develop, and maintain information systems within the agricultural sector for a European public sector client. The role is heavily weighted towards the backend, utilizing a Java and Spring stack with JPA persistence and SQL data layers. Responsibilities include taking technical ownership of API design, data models, and long-term maintainability. The engineer will collaborate with business analysts, stakeholders, and other engineers to translate requirements into software. The position involves evolving existing systems while ensuring performance, security, and data integrity.
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About The Role
As a Lead Full-stack Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain information systems in the agricultural sector for our Client, a European public sector organisation. The work is weighted towards the back end — Java and Spring services with JPA persistence over a SQL data layer, exposed through REST-based web services — with JavaScript front-end work on top. You will take technical ownership of what you deliver, from data model and API design through to release and long-term maintainability.
Responsibilities
As a Lead Full-stack Engineer, you will design, develop, and maintain information systems in the agricultural sector for our Client, a European public sector organisation. The work is weighted towards the back end — Java and Spring services with JPA persistence over a SQL data layer, exposed through REST-based web services — with JavaScript front-end work on top. You will take technical ownership of what you deliver, from data model and API design through to release and long-term maintainability.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain full-stack features, covering Java and Spring back-end services and the JavaScript front ends that consume them
- Take technical ownership of the solutions you deliver, including their performance, security, maintainability, and data integrity across the application and persistence layers
- Work with business analysts, fellow engineers, and stakeholders in the agricultural domain to turn requirements into working software, and support colleagues through code review and knowledge sharing
- Implement business logic and data access using Spring and JPA, and design and optimise the SQL data model and queries beneath them
- Design, build, and maintain REST-based web services that expose business functionality to front-end applications and integrating systems
- Analyse, maintain, and evolve existing information systems, understanding current behaviour before changing it and preserving compatibility where required
- Contribute to architecture and technical decisions, and uphold the team's coding conventions and quality standards
- Ensure code quality through testing and code review, and produce and maintain technical documentation for the components you deliver
- A university degree at master's level (or 5 years of higher education) with a minimum of 15 years of IT professional experience; or a degree at bachelor's level (or 3 years of higher education) with a minimum of 17 years; or a secondary degree giving access to higher education with a minimum of 22 years
- At least 10 years of experience with Java
- At least 8 years of experience with SQL
- At least 8 years of experience with JPA
- At least 7 years of experience with Spring
- At least 4 years of experience with JavaScript and at least 4 years with REST-based Web Services
- At least 6 months of experience in the analysis, development, and maintenance of information systems in the agricultural sector
- Very good knowledge of English, both spoken and written, corresponding to Level B2 or higher (CEFR)
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