Senior Software Engineer (Java, API)

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
• Key Skills and Qualifications:
• 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
• Benefits:
• 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
• We also offer cooperation based on a B2B or Contract of mandate (UZ)
• We also guarantee:
• 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

Do not hesitate and join our team!

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Do not hesitate and join our team!