Lead IT Developer/Tech Lead

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Job Req Number:  89151Time Type: Full Time

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Enterprise Transformation (ET) is a rapidly growing department responsible for new Enterprise Products, Data Science, Operations and Support for the Enterprise Products in our portfolio, and a Centre of Excellence that aims to make it easier, faster, and better to architect, build and test software.

We are an ambitious unit divided into cross-functional product teams with a flat hierarchy and a mix of young and very experienced persons, who are working according to the following principles:

• We celebrate victories together

• We take responsibility for mistakes and learn from them

• We design for scale but build only for the near future

• We make decisions based on knowledge and insight rather than hierarchical structures

• Decisions are the product of conversations between people with different competencies (not one person)

• Everyone can speak their honest opinion

We try to bring all relevant competencies close to the development process including:

• Product owner

• Application developers (frontend + backend)

• Testers

• Business analysts

• Data scientists

• ML engineers

• DevOps engineers

The Role / Responsibilities – Lead IT Developer/Tech lead

• Be the technical lead of one team of software developers to deliver highly scalable mission critical solutions to solve high priority business challenges

• Provide professional development guidance for 5-10 software developers

• Bringing your knowhow and best practices in delivery and operations constantly improving the team's output. 

• Work across all phases of the software development lifecycle (planning, design, implementation, deployment, operations, and support).

• Work with the product owner and other senior leaders to create a great working environment that attracts other great engineers

• Partner with product owner and architect setting the technical vision for the team

• Building, testing, and deploying the software using our standard CI/CD pipelines 

• Building micro services for processing data, reading/writing to the database, exposing data to other applications, and more. 

• Design, Implement and maintain Public APIs exposing our services, and consume public APIs from Vendors

• Refactor existing monoliths to micro-services

• Using the architectural patterns that are relevant for a specific context such as event-based data streaming, request-response web services, file transport jobs, and more. 

• Making sure that relevant logs are created, are understandable, are shared with our central logging platform, and that the necessary alerts are setup. 

• Testing your software from a functional, quality, fault-tolerance, performance, and scalability perspective. 

• Building security features into the solution such as federated authentication and authorization, role-based access control, and similar. 

• Engaging in a “guild” for backend developers to share knowledge, technical patterns and ways of working across product teams. 

Key Experience:

Most important 

• Backend applications: Java 21+ (extensive use of Spring Boot 3 framework)

• Event streaming: Confluent Kafka (KStreams etc.) 

• Database technologies: Mostly MongoDB 7+ (and PostgreSQL 12+) 

• APIs : Proficiency in RESTful API design, strong experience with JSON, XML, OpenAPI standards and HTTP protocols, Familiarity with API gateways, rate limiting, and caching strategies. 

Fairly important 

• Authentication: OIDC, OAuth2, SAML  

• Containerization: Docker 

• Container orchestration: Kubernetes 

• Logging, monitoring & Alerting: ELK stack  

Least important 

• Version control: Azure DevOps 

• CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins, Argo, Azure DevOps  

• Requirements: Jira 

• Documentation: Confluence 

What we offer:

• Employment contract

• Buddy

• Comprehensive onboarding program

• Internal training catalog and e-learning platform

• Culture of feedback

• Internal transition program

• Scandinavian work culture

• Work-life Harmony

DSV – Global transport and logistics

DSV is a dynamic workplace that fosters inclusivity and diversity. We conduct our business with integrity, respecting different cultures and the dignity and rights of individuals. When you join DSV, you are working for one of the very best performing companies in the transport and logistics industry. You’ll join a talented team of approximately 75,000 employees in over 80 countries, working passionately to deliver great customer experiences and high-quality services. DSV aspires to lead the way towards a more sustainable future for our industry and are committed to trading on nature’s terms.

We promote collaboration and transparency and strive to attract, motivate and retain talented people in a culture of respect. If you are driven, talented and wish to be part of a progressive and versatile organisation, we’ll support you and your need to achieve your potential and forward your career.

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