Junior Java Developer

Cognity is looking for Junior Java Developers to join our team, whose primary function will be to tackle exciting projects and deliver value for our clients. Successful candidates will be offered the opportunity to join our highly performing team, earn recognition from top enterprise customers and establish a long-term career path within our fast-growing company.

What you’ll do:

• Participate in all phases of the development life-cycle, focusing on designing, coding and unit testing
• Develop and maintains functional and stable applications to meet customers’ needs
• Participate in testing and code review
• Deploy and support e-commerce production environments
• Follow standard code practices and build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Support colleagues in requirements gathering and consult the customer on e-commerce best practices
• Be an active member of a collaborative team and share a strong cross-team, cross-functional culture
• Be a fast and independent learner with an aptitude for leveraging knowledge to deliver solid results
• Demonstrate attention to detail and continuously stay focused on delivering high quality solutions

What you’ll bring:

• BSc in Software Engineering or a related discipline
• Fluency in Greek and English
• Excellent team work and communication skills
• Dependability and capability to take initiatives
• Experience in Java Spring & Spring Boot Frameworks will be considered an asset
• Knowledge and understanding of RESTful Services, XML, JSON

What we offer:

🌍 Hybrid working options.

💰 Competitive salary package.

🚑 Health and life insurance for you and/or your family.

🏗️ Participation in amazing projects.

🔃 Receive constructive feedback regularly.

📚 You will be trained in globally-leading products and methodologies.

🏭 You will work on market-leading, real-life projects for the top organizations in the region.

🤝 You will collaborate with top-notch professionals.

⛵ You will learn to "partner" with a Customer, "be on the same boat", and work towards a common goal.

📈 You will "live" a project from inception to go-live and operation.

🎯 You will learn "what it takes" to deliver a successful project and be part of it.

⭐ You will be encouraged to develop fresh ideas, novel approaches, and new abilities.

🏋️ You will be coached by high-calibre consultants and fellow team members and coach others to success.

Cognity's Core Values:

• We value each employee as an individual and provide an environment where you can do your best work.
• We work together as teams to realise our vision and realise our customer's vision
• Our success is based on our customer’s success
• We achieve through excellence, exhibiting the highest levels of professionalism, competency, and ethics
• We take informed action, by considering all relevant information and looking for creative solutions
• We recognize the importance of open, honest, and respectful communication to achieve our business goals

Cognity is committed to ethical and environmentally-friendly practices that support Sustainability. We adhere to the environmental/green legislation, we have streamlined business processes, creating less waste and using less energy, we perform recycling of paper, batteries, plastic, etc. materials and we collaborate with Partners and Vendors that are also committed to Sustainability. Furthermore, we follow a “local-first” policy with regard to sourcing materials, people, and other resources, minimizing the environmental impact of our everyday choices.

Being a services company, we already have a minimal environmental impact (no production lines, physical materials, etc.), but we always strive to further minimize this impact in our daily operations, minimize energy consumption, work-from-home, minimize printing, car policy with reduced emissions, recycle, buy-local, etc. Our People play a vital role in the everyday application of the Sustainability policy and we have secured their buy-in and commitment. Finally, Cognity is regularly reviewing its Sustainability policy to be updated and adhere to the then-current sustainability and green/environmental legislation and best practices introduced.

We act ethically and with integrity in all our business operations and we comply with anti-corruption laws, such as the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Bribery Act, in all countries in which we do business.