Senior Software Engineer (m/f/d)

Business Unit: Cubic Transportation Systems
Company Details: When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.

We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.
Job Details:
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyse functional requirements; create designs and detailed technical specifications for the software to be developed.
• Implement the software, including software configuration control, unit tests, and continuous integration.
• Support or carry out the deployment process.
• Produce and maintain internal technical documentation, such as software designs, test specifications, or technical notes.
• Maintain and support the developed software as well as the underlying tech stack.
• Monitor and react to support requests with excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Provide excellent technical skills and experience in software development.
• When needed, provide assistance and guidance to less experienced team members.
• Collaborate with other software engineering teams, the DevOps team, the test team, and the project management team.
• Recommend test control, strategies, and equipment. Define test schedules and test data requirements. Test and document results.
• Report to the project manager and/or team lead on performance against timescales, specifications, and quality requirements. Identify any deviations from the plan and suggest corrective actions.
• Maintain IT documentation and follow IT procedures.
• Keep abreast of improvements and developments within software engineering. Identify software engineering process improvements and support their execution across the organisation.
• Comply with Cubic’s values and adherence to all company policies and procedures, including the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety, and environmental policies and procedures.
• Perform other duties assigned by their manager occasionally, as may be reasonably required of them.

Minimum Job Requirements
Skills, knowledge, and experience
Essential

• Considerable experience in the IT industry
• Current knowledge of methodologies, programming languages, and technologies
• Solid commercial Java experience
• Experience in IntelliJ, Eclipse, Git, Maven, Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker, Jira or comparable tools
• Fluent German language skills

Desirable

• Experience with Microservices and Spring Boot
• Experience with Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, and/or Karaf
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience in Web Service Security (WSS) and PKI infrastructures
• Experience in high-volume data processing
• Expertise in public transport ticketing and/or financial bookkeeping
• Experience in Oracle and/or PostgreSQL (table design, queries, query optimisation)
• Experience in XML and JSON
• Experience in JavaScript with CSS and/or React and/or Angular
• Experience with Jasper Reports
• Experience with Enterprise Architect
• Experience with UML design tools
• Good English language skills

Education and qualifications
Essential

• A university degree in a numerate subject (e.g., computer science, maths, engineering, natural science) or similar qualification

Desirable

• Certificates regarding relevant methods (UML, Scrum) and technologies (Java)

Personal Qualities

• Self-motivated
• Able to work on own initiative as part of a team
• Attention to detail and adherence to procedures
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication skills
• Aware of software development best practices and able to apply standards and procedures effectively.

Worker Type: Employee