Java Developer

Location: Tubize, Belgium

Java Developer
General information

• Experience: > 4 years of relevant experience
• Level of study: Bachelor or Master's degree
• Duration: Full time
• Location: Tubize - Belgium

Bored of reducing the transaction cost of banks? Annoyed to put in production half made products? Puzzled about the usefulness of your work in the society?

At Thales, we strive to have impact on what is around us to create a better future.

Did you know that Thales was part of the first satellite that humanity has sent on a meteorite 11 million kilometers away from earth? Yes, Thales Charleroi was part of it

Here at Thales, our core business is to answer demands of high technological and engineering criteria that were never done before. And we love challenges

On the Tubize site, we specialized in the design, development and supply of critical information systems for customers in the sectors of Defense, Security (including Cyber), Transport and Aerospace.

We are groundbreaking new digital technologies such as mobile communications, cryptography, cloud computing and big data for use in physical protection systems, and critical information systems.

The Software team works closely with the Hardware team to create unique pieces of high engineering.

For its activities, Thales Belgium SA (Tubize site) is therefore looking for a:
Java Developer (F/M/X)
Mission :
As a Medior Software Engineer, you will design and develop software solutions for our customers in Defense, Security and Aerospace domains.

You will work on projects which can be very different in nature, usually characterized by strong regulatory requirements and their complexity, such air traffic management, Key Management System, IP encryption devices…

You will develop using the newest features and development techniques.

Main Responsibilities :

• You analyze and transform requirements into optimal technical design, in accordance with state-of-the-art best practices, allocating functions to the software components, and defining interfaces and communication mechanisms;
• You help the Software Engineering Manager defining the development strategy, and provide robust and reliable estimation for work packages to develop (cost, schedule) and assessment of technical risks;
• You develop and unit test Java-based software components;
• You participate, and possibly lead, peer and engineering reviews;
• You participate, when needed, in higher-level testing (integration, verification, validation);
• You coordinate and lead the resolution of technical issues, and analyze root cause of problems;
• You establish and maintain working relationships with the other departments, QA, domain experts, IVVQ, subcontractors…;
• You will report to Thales Belgium's Head of Software.

Your general profile :

• You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT orientation or equivalent experience.
• You have at least 4 years' solid experience as a Java/JEE developer.
• You want to get involved in a company project strongly oriented towards collective intelligence and self-management.
• You will be able to be autonomous
• Eager to learn

• You have experience in most of the following technical areas:

• Java (11+)

• Good understanding of object-oriented programming;
• You know software engineering fundamentals and best practices, and apply them: object-orientation, SOLID principles, design patterns, unit testing/mocks, continuous integration, code versioning (Git), Agile…;
• API REST
• Network Protocols (TCP/UDP,…)
• Thorough knowledge of Spring ecosystem (Sprint Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Security…)
• JPA (Hibernate,...)
• PKI, TLS and secure communication in general
• Maven
• DB / SQL

• Code benchmarking and performance optimization

• Knowledge in the following technologies is a plus:

• Concurrent, multi-threaded programming, and distributed systems

• Secure coding
• Tomcat,...
• Java FX
• Containers (Docker, Kubernetes,...)

• Linux as target env

• Full professional proficiency in English. French and/or Dutch is a plus.