Java Developer Senior

📌 Job Title: Senior Java Developer
📍 Location: Barcelona, Spain (Remote with occasional visits to the office)
🕒 Type: Full-time
📄 Contract Type: contract of employment

Sanoma Learning is the leading European learning company, serving over 20 million students in 11 countries. We offer printed and digital learning materials as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary, and vocational education. The development of our methodologies is based on deep teacher and student insight and really understanding their needs. By combining our educational technologies and pedagogical expertise, we create learning products and services with the highest learning impact. In our Technology organization, you will join the largest cross-cultural community of Sanoma Learning and contribute to the digital transformation and future of education in Europe.

Work setup 🌍

We offer a remote work model with occasional visits to the office for team events, training, and business trips - typically once per month.

Project description 📝
Bingel is the adaptive all-round platform for primary education where teachers and pupils are central. Bingel assists the teacher in achieving his or her main goal: getting the best learning outcomes for each pupil. Its different modules support the teacher not only by offering the best quality teaching materials, but also by offering a range of time-saving solutions on planning, preparing, coaching and assessing. Pupils in Belgium, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands love Bingel as their gamified learning platform for every-day use. Their personal avatar joins them while they’re learning and adapted practicing, with which they earn virtual money that can be used for buying avatar accessories or games. 
About the role

We’re looking for a seasoned Java Developer to join our Scrum team. You will help us build and improve the most innovative and engaging educational applications.

You develop new functionalities, solve problems, and analyze more complex issues. By creating proofs of concept (PoCs), you help the team make technical decisions where necessary. You contribute to resolving support tickets and perform minor operational tasks. There is also a rotating role in which someone is responsible for monitoring the applications and checking logs. You never lose sight of quality and motivate your team members to do the same.

Must-have requirements

✅ A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
✅ English proficiency: B2/C1 (written and spoken)
✅ Spanish proficiency: C1/C2 (written and spoken)
✅ 6+ years of experience in programming in Java (11 or higher)
✅ Experience in working with Amazon Web Services (EC2, CloudFormation, S3, CloudFront, Elasticache, Lambdas);
✅ Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
✅ Good knowledge of NoSQL databases (MongoDB)

✅ Advanced knowledge of Maven, REST, Spring
✅ Advanced knowledge of Git

Nice-to-Have Requirements
💠 Vert.X / RX Java
💠 Microservices architecture
💠Bitbucket (pipelines)

💠(My)SQL
💠 Datadog

What we offer

As an employer, Sanoma offers a working environment where you are able and encouraged to show your best self. The working environment is result-oriented as well as flexible with a focus on collaboration. We offer you a key position with interesting and challenging tasks and excellent opportunities for professional growth. You will be part of a highly professional and experienced international team in an open and informal setting, where initiative is expected and rewarded.

About Sanoma Learning

How do you prepare students for the world, engage their curiosity and inspire them to grow? That is the main question of teachers all around the world. At Sanoma Learning, it has always been our mission to help to find and develop best-in-class answers to this question. If you join us, it means that you embark on an exciting journey to help shape the future of learning for primary, secondary and vocational education. We believe that your journey is our success as a company.
Sanoma Learning is a leading K12 European learning company, operating in 12 countries. Our learning products and services enable and support teachers and schools to develop the talents of every child to reach their potential. By offering printed and digital learning content, as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary and vocational education, we want to grow our positive impact on learning across Europe. With over 3000 employees, we help shape the future of education for 25+ million of students.
So, are you ready to start your journey to help shape the future of learning and help teachers to support all students to reach their potential?
Sanoma Learning is an equal opportunity employer; we are committed to inclusion and diversity, ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics.