OTA - Senior Dev with AI
IDEMIA Secure Transactions, a division of IDEMIA Group, is a leading provider of payment and connectivity solutions. Our 10,000 employees make it their mission to unlock safer and easier ways to pay and connect. For decades, we have pioneered the future of our industry, empowering our clients to offer essential services with an unbeatable balance between high-level security and ease of use. We are uniquely positioned on the market thanks to our long-standing expertise in advanced cryptography and at-scale credential issuance. Our ultra-secure suite of products and services adopt a client-centric approach ౼ guaranteeing that the demand for immediacy, hyper-personalization and convenience for end users is met.
Purpose
Key Missions
- Uses programming, scripting and database languages to write software code that meets requirements and that optimizes software performances
- Identifies existing software components, libraries and frameworks to reuse in the solutions
- Applies knowledge of software development best practices, including coding standards, secure coding, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Contributes to requirement (functional and non-functional) analysis and estimations
- Supports software testing, deployment, maintenance, and evolution activities by correcting programming errors, responding to scope changes, and coding software enhancements
- Builds up software structure including functions, design patterns, layers, etc.
- Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing code comments, layouts, diagrams and charts
- Contributes to Software architecture (specification analysis, technical studies, technology assessment, etc.)
- Codes large and complex modules within agreed quality, deadline and cost
- Performs design and code reviews and assess software performance optimization
- Contributes and promotes the organization's technical governance
- Produce quotations
- Performs complex troubleshooting
- Coaches and can manage a small team of Software Development Engineers
Profile & Other Information
Required
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Minimum 4-5 years of experience in software development for commercial software products.
For a senior profile, broader experience in complex enterprise systems would be considered a strong advantage. - Strong backend development experience with Java EE 17 or higher.
- Good knowledge of Spring Framework and Spring Boot.
- Experience designing, developing, testing, and maintaining backend services in production environments.
- Good understanding of software engineering best practices
- Practical experience with AI-assisted software development tools, or strong motivation to actively adopt them in daily engineering work.
- Ability to introduce and promote AI-supported development practices within the team
- Ability to evaluate where AI can bring measurable productivity improvements in the software development lifecycle.
- Capacity to act as an AI champion within the engineering team by helping other developers use AI tools effectively, responsibly, and securely.
- Ability to contribute to the design of a modern development process integrating AI tools into analysis, implementation, testing, documentation, and support activities.
- Intermediate verbal and written communication skills in English
Desired
- Cloud: docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure
- Databases: MySQL
- Tools: JIRA, git, maven, Jenkins, Confluence
- Experience applying AI tools in one or more engineering areas:
- Software design support
- Code implementation
- Test automation
- CI/CD optimization
- Log analysis
- Production troubleshooting
- Vulnerability analysis
- Technical documentation
- Understanding of responsible AI usage in software engineering, including:
- Data confidentiality
- Intellectual property protection
- Secure handling of source code
- Validation of AI-generated outputs
- Avoiding blind reliance on AI suggestions
- Ability to define team guidelines, best practices, and repeatable workflows for AI-assisted development.
- Experience mentoring developers or supporting adoption of new engineering practices.
Let Us Know If You Have Experience With
- Gherkin / Cucumber
- CI/CD, especially Jenkins pipelines
- Multithreading and concurrent programming
- Kafka
- OTA platforms or SIM card technologies
- SMS-related protocols, such as:
- SMPP
- CIMD
- Telecom, mobile network, M2M, IoT, or eSIM-related environments
- Legacy system modernization or refactoring with the support of AI tools
- Building internal knowledge bases, technical documentation, or developer onboarding material using AI-assisted methods
- Introducing AI into existing development teams, including training, coaching, and measuring adoption impact
Working Location
The role is based in Malaga, Spain. We work in a hybrid model, with at least two office visits per week.
By choosing to work at IDEMIA, you will join a unique tech company, offering a wide range of growth opportunities. You will contribute to a safer world, collaborating with an international and global community. We value the diversity of our teams and welcome people from all walks of life, regardless of how they look, where they come from, who they love, or what they think.
We deliver cutting edge, future proof innovation that reach the highest technological standards and we’re transforming, fast, to stay a leader in a world that’s changing fast, too.
At IDEMIA, people can develop their expertise and feel a sense of ownership and empowerment, in a global environment, as part of a company with the ambition and the ability to change the world.
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