Java Developer Portugal

Ready to do the best work of your life? Join us, and bring everything you have to solve the most fulfilling problems on the market. As a Gold accredited Investor in People we have everything you need to propel your career to new heights. Inclusion is the beating heart of Alfa so whoever you are, you can show up as your best self everyday - be that from home, from our offices, or a little bit of both. We’ve got the tech, we’ve got the opportunities, all we’re missing is you.

What we’ll do together

Solve problems to enhance our flagship product - Alfa Systems

Translate client’s business requirements into incremental value-adding deliverables

Decide how best to evolve Alfa Systems to keep our clients future ready

Challenge each other to take the best next steps

Grow the great ideas you and your team come up with

Create a positive impact on our colleagues, clients, and the communities our organisation touches

How we’ll work together

You’ll join a stream of six to eight back-end engineers. Your stream will be in our Product Engineering Team of around 100 people and growing

We’ll use Agile and related methodologies. We’ll follow TDD and other best practices to continuously improve our standards

We’ll collaborate with Consultants, Solutions Engineers, Delivery Leads, Specialist, Product Area Owners and Architects to add new features to Alfa Systems

We’ll offer you supervision and mentoring opportunities of more junior members if you want them

We’ll contribute to open source projects

We’ll enhance our in house authored tools and systems

The tools we’ll use

JavaEclipse or IntelliJ for development; Maven for building; Google Guice for DIJUnit & Mockito for open box testing; Selenium, Cypress & Cucumber for closed box testing; Docker, Kubernetes & Cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) for deployment; Jenkins for CIGraph; QL, JAX-RS, JMS, JAX-WS for APIs; Oracle and Postgres with Hibernate for Persistence

What you’ll bring to the team

Professional Java development experience

Strong problem solving skills

Strong team working and communication skills

What we’ll do for you

Support you in flexible hybrid working

22 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and flexible cultural days

Offer interest free loans of up to €10,000 after probation period

Support you in pursuing membership of professional bodies

Offer 5 days per year to attend conferences or training

Offer 3 paid days of volunteering per year

About Alfa

With over 450 employees worldwide, we’re a leading provider of software and services to the global auto and equipment finance industries. Alfa Systems, our technology platform, is at the heart of some of the world’s largest asset finance companies.

Key to the business case for each implementation is Alfa Systems’ ability to consolidate multiple client systems onto a single platform. Alfa Systems supports both retail and corporate business for auto, equipment, wholesale and dealer finance on a multijurisdictional basis, including leases/loans, originations and servicing. An end-to-end solution with integrated workflow and automated processing using business rules.

With over 30 current clients and 26 countries served, Alfa has been delivering successful projects for our customers since 1990, and is expanding rapidly throughout Europe, North America and beyond. We listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2017.