Senior Developer (Backend)

Established in 2003, GreenTomato is a Hong Kong based leading technology corporate specialises in provision of professional and reliable mobile enterprise solutions and creation of award-winning mobile apps. GT is now a winner of over 100 local and global awards including Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Grand Award winner and Red Herring Global 100. And we always attribute the company success to every single team member.

GT grew from a small scale startup to a family with more than 300 passionates over 5 regional offices. With expertise and excellent teamwork, over 500 highly creditable mobile apps, web services and over 150 long-term partnerships were formed with many MNCs including AIA, AXA, Prudential, HSBC, BOCHK, Apple Inc, BMW etc.

Everyone in GT is our treasured asset, we value on personal growth and communication among teams. Employees get chance to learn from abundant in-field practical training, to share their thoughts and carry out innovative ideas. Throughout 20 years of journey, we would proudly say that our team has successfully developed Hong Kong Movie (Hong Kong’s largest movie community) , TalkBox Voice Messenger (#1 social networking app around the world), Timable (Hong Kong’s biggest event and concert guide). etc. and formed our in-house startup accelerator, GT STUDIO, to make our own ecosystem more complete.

Only a passionate team player like you can bring our business to the forefront!

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.gtomato.com and join our Facebook page.

We are hiring talent like you!

Senior Developer is responsible for developing the most appropriate and implemented Technology solutions with software development in line with the solution design, to meet customer needs, ensuring continuous improvement.

What you’ll be performing:
• Design and engineer software to fulfil functional and non-functional requirements as a key objective.
• Mentor of the developer on engineer software to fulfil functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of products and services.
• Design, develop and deploy applications capable of meeting the anticipated load, performance, availability, security and resilience requirements.
• Provide support in identification and resolution of all incidents associated with the product.
• Responsible for automating the continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline within a DevOps Product/Service team driving a culture of continuous improvement.
• Keep up to date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency.
• Be part of a team contributing to the improvement of System Architecture and delivery on a continuous basis.
• Diving into the unknown fields and R&D in our internal projects.
• Developing cloud-native solutions on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

What you should have:
• Minimum 2 years professional experience with Software Engineering related fields.
• Comfortable to develop in Kotlin/JVM or javascript (Babel stage 3) or TypeScript 4.0.
• Comfortable to write efficient SQL Queries for mission critical tasks.
• Experience in working multi-modules Maven/Gradle configurations, npm modules.
• Experience in making hard tradeoffs between important goals and complete with a realistic and sustainable solution.
• Able to discover, apply and establish best practices.
• Keen focus on code readability and incremental refactoring.
• Passion for self-improvement, a healthy appetite for learning and willingness to mentor.

Would be great if you were:
• Having Solution Architect certifications by AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
• Experience with GitHub Flow or GitLab Flow.
• Experience with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis or ElasticSearch.
• Experience with gRPC or GraphQL.
• Experience with JVM Troubleshooting Tools (VisualVm), Benchmarking Tools (JMH), Load Generating Tools (JMeter).
• Experience with different Java productivity libraries like Guava, Lombok.
• Experience with Kotlin Coroutine.
• Experience in various aspects of backend development like NodeJS, Go.
• Experience in UI Component crafting with any kind of framework.
• Having open source project contributions.
• More experience will be considered as Analyst Programmer or System Analyst.

Benefits we offered:
• 5-day work week
• Competitive remuneration
• Discretionary Bonus
• Medical Allowance
• Birthday Leave
• Happy and harmonious working environment
• Valuable working experience

We offer an attractive remuneration package, comprehensive on the job training on new technologies, and excellent career development opportunities to the right candidate.

Final and Most Important Requirement

"Enjoy What You Do!!"

Candidates not contacted within 4 weeks may consider their application for this role unsuccessful. Unless advised otherwise, unsuccessful candidates will be kept on file for future job opportunities. Personal data collected will be used for recruitment-related purposes only and all personal data of applicants will be kept in strict accordance with the Personal Data Privacy Ordinance.