Senior Backend Developer — Prøvetaking team

About the assignment

Mattilsynet (Norwegian Food Safety Authority) is looking for a senior backend developer for the Prøvetaking team, which is responsible for developing and maintaining the new sampling solution. The team works iteratively and in an agile way with weekly production releases, and the consultant must quickly get to grips with a complex subject area. A good understanding of agentic approaches to development is expected, as well as the ability to share knowledge and contribute to the team's psychological safety. The consultant should expect to be moved to another team during the contract period.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development work in the Prøvetaking team on the new sampling solution
• Solve complex domain problems and deliver solutions quickly
• Take part in iterative, agile development with weekly production releases
• Share knowledge with team members and contribute to the team's professional development
• Contribute to high psychological safety through active participation and an inquiring approach
• Experiment with new ways of working, including agentic approaches to development

Required skills

• Higher technical education, at least a master's degree
• At least 10 years' experience of backend or full-stack development with a focus on backend
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in Norwegian
• Experience of agile and iterative ways of working
• Experience of teamwork, including cross-functional product teams
• Experience of training other developers and sharing professional expertise
• Java
• Kotlin
• Spring Boot
• Flyway
• Exposed
• Arrow
• OpenAPI
• Swagger
• Postgres with PostGIS
• Hexagonal architecture
• Representational State Transfer (REST)