Lead Full Stack Software Engineer (Java + Angular)

Job description

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. You will work across the full stack — Java and Spring back-end services with JPA persistence, and Angular front ends — and take technical ownership of the solutions you deliver, from architecture decisions through to deployment and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain full-stack features, covering Java and Spring back-end services and Angular front-end applications

- 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 underlying data model

- Analyse, maintain, and evolve existing information systems, understanding current behaviour before changing it and preserving compatibility where required

- Contribute to architecture decisions, including containerisation, cloud deployment, and build automation

- Ensure code quality through testing, code review, and adherence to the team's established conventions

- Produce and maintain technical documentation for the components you deliver

Requirements

- 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

- Mandatory certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (SAA-C02) and Oracle Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD/OCEJWCD)

- At least 13 years of experience with Java

- At least 9 years of experience with Spring and at least 11 years of experience with JPA

- At least 8 years of experience with JavaScript

- At least 7 years of experience with Angular

- At least 6 months of experience in the analysis, development, and maintenance of information systems in the agricultural sector

- Experience with Docker, AWS, Jenkins, Prometheus, and Grafana is considered an asset

- Very good knowledge of English, both spoken and written, corresponding to Level B2 or higher (CEFR)