Ritchie Bros.

Job Description

Join Ritchie Bros

Our culture is characterized by collaboration, inclusivity, and a commitment to continuous learning, fostering an environment where diverse perspectives lead to groundbreaking solutions. Team members are empowered to share ideas and experiments across teams in all aspects of the business, fostering innovation and creativity. Leading-edge technologies and inclusive practices drive both individual and collective growth as we modernize and grow our technical capabilities.

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Helsinki-based engineering team as a Java/Spring server-side engineer, designing and maintaining scalable web applications, APIs, and infrastructure components. You will work in a small, cross-functional team focused on an RBAuction domain, collaborating with engineers, QA, an Engineering Manager, and US-based teams.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will take ownership of technical and architectural execution, contribute to building modern full-stack web experiences, and apply industry best practices to deliver high-quality solutions. You will champion clean code, system reliability, and scalable architectures, and help ensure changes are deployed safely and efficiently to production. You will collaborate closely with UI designers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver impactful products. You must be comfortable working both as part of a team and as an individual contributor with minimal supervision. In addition, you will have opportunities to mentor team members, contribute to technical decision-making, and help foster a collaborative, growth-oriented engineering culture

As Senior Software Engineer you'll:

• Design and development of highly efficient, scalable, and maintainable software solutions.
• Drive refactoring efforts and set standards to improve code quality, performance, and long-term maintainability.
• Provide technical leadership in troubleshooting and resolving production issues, ensuring system stability and reliability.
• Guide the team in addressing complex scalability, platform, and integration challenges.
• Champion best practices in architecture and design, influencing technical direction and aligning solutions with business goals.
• Mentor and develop team members by partnering with engineering managers and leads to build technical skills and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Take ownership of additional responsibilities as needed to support team and organizational objectives.

Here is what you bring

• Should be proficient in both application development, application support and maintenance of production system.
• Minimum 7-10 years of application design and development experience
• Expert level knowledge and experience with Java and Spring Framework
• Expert knowledge with Spring boot micro-service, Spring Cloud, API development and API security.
• Expert knowledge and experience of developing and consuming Web Services using REST
• Experience working in relational databases: MySQL/Oracle/Postgres/ DynamoDB
• Experience writing unit and integration test, preferred Junit, Mockito.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting systems and software running in Prod.
• Experience with modern CI/CD tools and deployment pipelines
• Experience with GitHub/Bitbucket
• Experience with AWS, containerization tools like Docker, Kubernetes
• Preferred: Experience with Agile Scrum, TDD and Pair Programming as well as experience with CircleCI, Helm, CodeClimate, Snyk, Spotlight, Vault

What we Offer

Our success is built on the drive and dedication of our people. As we grow around the globe, there will be many opportunities to advance your career – we’ve proven this throughout our 60+ years in business. And, we'll take care of you along the way. Here’s how:

• Possibility to join a global and financially stable organization that has the benefits of a smaller company, while providing stability and career development opportunities
• A key role in the transformation and modernization of the auction website, supported by experienced colleagues - in this role, you’ll have an actual impact on the result
• Company culture that fosters coaching and mentoring, and emphasizes the importance of well-led development teams
• Comfortable working community − People at Ritchie Bros are highly engaged and long careers speak for themselves
• Great office location in the heart of Helsinki, but flexibility for remote work too
• Fringe benefits such as lunch and sports & culture benefit
• An annual bonus

Practicalities:

In this full-time and permanent position, you will be employed directly by Ritchie Bros. The start time in the role is as soon as possible. Ritchie Bros has an office in the heart of Helsinki, and we hope you are willing to visit the Helsinki office on a weekly basis to meet your team and colleagues. As you will be working with the US-based projects, we hope you have flexibility to participate meetings at about 5-7 pm Finnish time when needed.

We are actively reviewing applications throughout the application period and processing them in the order they are received. We are ready to fill the positions as soon as a potential candidate is found.

Ritchie Bros. is an equal opportunity employer and ensures nondiscrimination in all activities in accordance with all applicable laws. This position is open to all qualified applicants who are legally entitled to work in the country in which this job is located. Candidate selection is made by Talent Acquisition. Only electronic applications can be accepted. No agency calls, please.

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