FullStack Engineer (API Engineer)

Work model: hybrid work, 8 days a month in the office, Kraków

Type of contract: B2B, contracting
Rate: 200–220 PLN/hour 

 

Major responsibilities:

 

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

·        Deliver high quality code artefacts 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 development of the new capabilities

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

 

Responsibilities:

·        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 objective

·        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

·        Keep up-to-date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable

 

 

Qualifications:

 

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

·        Minimum of 8 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 5 years of engineering background in back-end microservices application development, application security and authentication development, cache and middleware

·        More than 8 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

·        Experience working with Kafka, Docker, k8s, service mesh

·        Experience with monitoring and observability technologies: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry

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

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

·        Strong SQL coding abilities is preferred

·        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