Senior Software Engineer (Java, API)

Project overview

Why us? 🤝

We are part of the ALTEN Group – a leading European provider of engineering and technology consulting servics.

Join ALTEN Polska and let’s grow together!

🌎Location: Kraków- hybird work (6 x month)

👉In this role, you will:

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· Deliver engineering expertise for our Future State Architecture, producing best in class payment processing capabilities

· Deliver high quality code artefacts that set the example for the team, ensuring quality gates are surpassed and robust test scripts are included

· Focus on delivering highly available, highly resilient software and service capability

· Participate in a wider delivery team providing design and development of the new capabilities

· Support transformation of the current payment estate, with laser focus on modernization and adoption of cloud-based technology

The role including below major accountabilities：

· Set the level expected for software delivery within the team, leading by example

· Serve as expert in area of responsibility, identifies process improvements and problem prevention, and advises department and management of relevant information as appropriate

· Provides analysis and solutions to technical and business issues

· Understand and apply technology and corporate vision setting direction on implementation.

· Maintain awareness of business and technology strategies and implements technical alternatives and strategies to gain competitive advantage

· Maintains the complex technical infrastructure of assigned area to meet the business requirements.

· Provides technical solutions to business problems, technical leadership and direction to management.

· Remain current on technical and professional advances and business strategies regarding area of responsibility

· Resolve architectural or development blockers raised

· Partner with DevOps team to enable automated infrastructure delivery, DevSecOps value streams are executed and CI /CD pipelines to deploy services

· Initiate analysis for complex problems and issues, determine technical alternatives, analyse vendor solutions and negotiate contracts, and develop appropriate standards for technology application.

· Provide technical leadership and consultation to project team members as directed by the project manager

· Initiate and conduct feasibility studies of new and modified operational procedures.

· For large systems, prepare cost/benefit analyses, functional and detail specifications.

· Provide direct guidance in planning, designing, programming, documentation and implementation of the systems

· Perform reviews of new and existing systems to ensure operational integrity and accomplishment of stated objectives

· Design, code, test, debug and document programs as required

· Provide architecture guidance to developers based on best practices and in alignment with global standards

· Ensuring compliance with all relevant controls and standards

Requirements

· Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science, Engineering or related majors

· Minimum of 15 years’ applied experience as an API engineer

· Strong experience in API designing and creating architectural artefacts such as gap analysis, low level designs, data models etc.

· More than 10 years of engineering background in back-end microservices application development, application security and authentication development, cache and middleware

· More than 10 years’ experience programming in Java and ideally Go and Rust

· Expertise in JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization

· Expertise in distributed system design including microservices, Springboot

· Expertise in Docker, k8s, service mesh

· Expertise in Kafka, the incumbent should be able to build and configure a cluster and develop software to produce and consume to/from the cluster

· Expertise in monitoring and observability technologies: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry

· Expertise in cloud and DevOps, familiar to network (VPC) and firewall on cloud, identity and access management, cloud delivery including sizing and costing

· Solid knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, network load-balancing, Kubernetes CNI

· Expert-level SQL coding abilities is preferred.

· Understanding of distributed Databases

· Experience of working in a financial institution, ideally in payments

· Ability to work independently and think out of the box

· The passion and ability to lead/motivate and develop technologist, including mentoring and coaching.

· Superior listening skills, ability to learn quickly, and willing to accept accountability for company and individual success

· Extensive critical thinking skills for problem identification and solution recommendation

· Exceptional team player that can lead others in demonstrating initiative and sound business judgment and is interested in expanding skills and growing professionally

· Highly flexible, set priorities and meet deadlines in a changing environment

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, ability to negotiate, resolve conflicts and influence technical choices relating to business, development and architectural requirements

🎯 We offer

We offer a full-time employment contract

• Stable and long-term cooperation
• Well-defined career path at the European leader in engineering & IT consulting
• Opportunity to relocate and work in different ALTEN Polska branches
• After completion of the project, opportunity to engage in a subsequent one within the company
• Introduction and cooperation with dedicated Competences Manager

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Kraków, Lubicz, PL
• Languages: English

Source notes

🎯We also offer cooperation based on a B2B or Contract of mandate (UZ)

🎯We also guarantee:

Do not hesitate and join our team!

NOTICE: We kindly inform you that we will contact the selected people.

• Medicover medical care
• Medicover dental care
• Medicover Benefits platform
• Medicover Sport card
• Referral Program
• Layette for a newborn employee’s child
• Group life insurance
• Pension scheme
• Access to professional certifications with our technology partners (e.g. Google, ISTQB)
• Access to relevant industry events
• Access to the Knowledge Sharing Program
• Access to Referral program