Java Software Engineer, Data Observability

Joining Collibra’s Data Observability Team

• You'll have the chance to work with state-of-the-art technologies alongside a team that excels in processing large-scale data with clarity and intention.
• You will deal with scalability, code efficiency, and beautiful visuals that are at the core of our work, to ensure that our solutions perform optimally while presenting information in an intuitive and visually compelling way,
• You will be part of a collaborative engineering team committed to impactful results and continuous improvement.
• 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.
• 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 Data Observability Team, regularly delivering quality code, participating in testing, and providing constructive input on the design and approaches taken to improve our software.