Job brief

At Opul Nails London, were revolutionising the beauty industry by delivering innovative, premium-quality reusable press-on nails through our cutting-edge e-commerce platform. As we continue to grow, we are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to help us scale our digital presence and improve the overall customer experience.

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimising both the front-end and back-end of our website. Youll work closely with the product, marketing, and design teams to ensure that our platform is scalable, efficient, and user-friendly. If you're passionate about creating seamless e-commerce solutions, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, and have a keen interest in the beauty industry, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Develop new capabilities and re-architect parts of an existing system.
• Take part in test-driven, iterative development, prototyping, and reviews with a team of developers.
• Design and code middle and back-end in a clean and efficient way.
• Implement scalable and robust services.
• Develop external and internal APIs.
• Develop and run unit and performance tests to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Review and debug code.
• Develops documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clean code to explain and show solutions.
• Determines and designs system specifications, standards, and programming to prepare and install solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Information Technology or related field
• Between 1 and 3 years of experience in software engineering
• Experience developing server-side web applications in Java
• Experience developing Java Web Services with public API (e.g. REST, SOAP)
• Experience with relational (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB)
• Proficient in object-oriented development
• Able to effectively and quickly adopt new technology
• Knowledge of Java frameworks, architecture, and design patterns
• Good communication skills