Who is Qred
In March 2020 the Financial Times named Qred Sweden's fastest growing company and one of the 10 fastest growing companies in Europe. We are an international FinTech scale-up that specializes in digital financing solutions for small businesses, with operations in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and Brazil.
We are passionate about helping small businesses thrive and grow, and we are proud of the role we have had in our customers’ ability to create jobs as a result. Qred is in an exciting phase of our company’s journey that focuses on growth through smart product development and technology fuelled international expansion.
What will you do at Qred?
As a Java developer, you will play an important role in building our next generation platform with the aim to have an event-driven architecture built in Java and Javascript.
We are working to redefine our technology stack and have made significant improvements during 2020. We have had constant progress in test automation pipelines, code coverage, agile development processes and leadership clarity.
To continue in 2021 we need people like you to help us refactor the Java code base and implement new features by using more interfaces, inversion of control patterns and exposing our business logic via JWT REST API's.
The health of our Java platform is improving each month and we see a strong future by investing in our employees and Java system architecture to combine Java and javascript within AWS Lambda and AWS event bridge.
Why You're a fit for Qred
To thrive in this role, it's important that you have high standards. The Java team is very committed to code quality and design patterns. Code reviews typically have high and engaged feedback which is great if you wish to work with modern Java. We are looking for engineers who really like to work with Java and SQL but understand its fun to also dip your toes into cloud infrastructure in AWS from time to time. Overall we have a high preference for automation so if you recommendations on additional tooling, you would be most welcomed.
We believe you:
- Have at least 3 years of writing, releasing, and maintaining Java applications
- Have experience with modern Java methodologies such as Spring 5, Mockito and SonarCloud or similar
- Are genuinely excited about technology, and have a strong interest in learning and playing with emergent technologies in Java
- Care about quality and you take pride in shipping code thats been well reviewed
- Have comfort and familiarity with modern agile development practices and are happy that the team has a structured and clear prioritized roadmap
- Have an understanding of working with Continuous Integration & devOps and are happy to discuss with highly skilled colleagues on new ideas
- Work well in a team to solve problems and can ask for help, but are motivated to debug alone when required
- Hold and express considered opinions, and modify them when faced with contrary evidence. Above all, you are happy to let the best ideas win
- Are a good communicator in both written and verbal, comfortable communicating with technical and non-technical team members in English
Team culture
We believe in transparency, innovation and passion. We have a flexible working environment but people get stuff done and to ever increasing standards. If you like to push hard and keep raising the bar on what someone would says is good, you will fit well in our product team. We don't have to heavy processes but try to have fun whilst expanding the capabilities of the business.
Why Qred is a fit for You!
We are a diverse multi-disciplinary and international team of people who bring creativity, energy, and excellence to every situation. It's a fun start-up atmosphere in a scale-up environment with a short way from idea to action. We offer flexibility, lovely breakfasts, fun team activities and after works. To make sure you stay healthy we offer the MAX wellness allowance and actively support work-life balance.
Interested?
This is a full-time, permanent position based in central Stockholm. We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis. While the start date is flexible, the right candidate can join us immediately. Please send direct questions to Talent Acquisition Partner Felicia at felicia.hartvig@qred.com
Qred celebrates diversity and does not discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law.

Note to Recruiters & Placement Agencies: Qred does not accept unsolicited agency CVs. Qred does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.