Software Engineer - Backend (JAVA)

About Horizontal: Established since 2003 in the US, Horizontal solves complex challenges across two distinct businesses: Horizontal Digital and Horizontal Talent. We are consistently recognized for being a top workplace and one of the fastest growing private companies. Horizontal Talent specializes in staffing for IT, Digital & Creative and Business & Strategy markets. We have global offices in US, UAE, India, Malaysia and Australia.

Key Responsibilities

• Building distributed systems that communicate internally and externally mainly based on REST and messaging
• Participating in discussion, architecting and implementing event-driven architecture.
• Work closely with team members to achieve incremental milestones

Who we're seeking:

• Open for Malaysians only.
• Good understanding on Java or any other OOP concept
• Good understanding on messaging such as Kafka
• Good understanding on relational and non-relational databases
• Good understanding on web APIs with reasonable complexities
• Good understanding of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Curiosity for continuous learning and improvement
• At least 5+ years of experience building and developing software would be preferred

Technology Stack We Use

• Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes