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.
What We Do
Alfa (formerly CHP Consulting) has been delivering systems and services to the global asset and automotive finance industry since 1990.
Our best practice methodologies and specialised knowledge of asset finance mean that we deliver the largest system implementations and most complex business change projects. With an excellent delivery history over our 27 years in the industry, Alfa's track record is unrivalled.
Alfa Systems, our class-leading 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 on 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, the opportunities that Alfa Systems presents to asset finance companies are clear and compelling.
With over 30 current clients and 26 countries served, Alfa has offices all over Europe, Asia-Pacific and the United States. For more information, visit alfasystems.com.
