Senior Platform Engineer

About the job:

Join Allegro Pay - where FinTech Innovation meets Platform excellence!

Are you excited about making a big impact in the FinTech industry? Allegro Pay, the top financial technology company from Central Europe, is searching for a dynamic Platform Engineer to join our success story driven by .NET and Azure. Here's why you should join us:

• Big Scale: Immerse yourself in the exciting world of Allegro Pay, where your platform skills will tackle challenges on a large scale. You'll be contributing to financial solutions that affect over a million people (handling 60+ million requests daily and managing dozens of terabytes of data).

• Engineering Maturity: Join a culture that mirrors the top tech giants. Our commitment to engineering excellence and maturity puts us on par with industry leaders like FAANG companies. (11 of 12 in Pragmatic Engineer Score)

• Best-in-Class Expertise: Work alongside the best experts in the field, collaborating to push the boundaries of what's possible in FinTech. Our team includes MVPs and many conference speakers.

• Impactful Products: Imagine this - your work at Allegro Pay contributes to creating products that you, your family, and friends might already use daily. See the direct impact of your efforts on the FinTech landscape (with 120+ deployments per month).

• First-Citizen Platform: Play a key role in developing our first-citizen platform, empowering developers to achieve more. Contribute to a culture that prioritizes tools and automation, enhancing the developer experience.

Are you ready to be a game-changer in a team that values innovation and expertise? Apply now and become a key player in shaping the future of FinTech with Allegro Pay!

Team tech stack:

• Azure, Azure DevOps, AKS (kubernetes), Azure Pipelines (yaml), GitHub Actions, PowerShell, ArgoCD, Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, Backstage, Pulumi, .NET/C#, Java/Kotlin

Important things for you:

• Flexible working hours in the hybrid model (4/1) - working hours start between 7:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. We also have 30 days of occasional remote work.

• The salary range for this position depending on the skill set is as follows (contract of employment, tax-deductible cost):

  • PLN 20 500 - 27 250

  • Annual bonus based on your annual performance and company results.

  • Long term discretionary incentive plan based on Allegro.eu shares (restricted stock units).

• Our team is based in Warsaw.

We are looking for people who:

• Have experience with platform engineering, Kubernetes and GitOps (Istio, ArgoCD, Helm)

• Have worked with public cloud services (preferably Azure)

• Have skills in scripting languages like PowerShell or Bash

• Understanddistributed systems and their design

• Have experience with containerization and cloud computing

• Want to build software and tools for other developers

• Want to be proud of the code they write but are also willing to accept feedback and share their knowledge during code reviews

• Can search for efficient solutions to meet users’ needs

• Are eager to continuously develop their skills and expand their knowledge

• Know English at at least B2 level

The following are also a plus:

• Experience with Java/Kotlin and .NET/C#.

In your daily work you will handle the following tasks:

• You will develop and maintain tools for developers

• You will support and improve Kubernetes workloads like Istio and Argo

• You will design and implement high availability on multi-region setup

• You will research new technologies, execute proof of concepts, and write down analysis

• With your expertise, you will help developers from product teams use the platform in an efficient way by providing them with tools, automations and integrations

• All of the above in one of the biggest .NET and Azure products in Poland, with hundreds of microservices and millions of happy customers

What’s in it for you:

• Well-located offices (with e.g. fully equipped kitchens, bicycle parking, terraces full of greenery) and excellent work tools (e.g., raised desks, ergonomic chairs, interactive conference rooms).

• A 16" or 14" MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don't like Macs) and all the necessary accessories.

• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan - you choose what you like (e.g., medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers).

• English classes that we pay for related to the specific nature of your job.

• A training budget, inter-team tourism (see more here), hackathons, and an internal learning platform where you will find multiple trainings.

• An additional day off for volunteering, which you can use alone, with a team, or with a larger group of people connected by a common goal.

• Social events for Allegro people - Spin Kilometers, Family Day, Fat Thursday, Advent of Code, and many other occasions we enjoy.

And that's just the beginning! You can read more about the benefitshere.

#goodtobehere means that:

• You will join a team you can count on - we work with top-class specialists who have knowledge- and experience-sharing in their DNA.

• You will love our level of autonomy in team organization, the space for continuous development, and the opportunity to try new things. You get to choose which technology solves the problem and you are responsible for what you create.

• You will value our Developer Experience and the full platform of tools and technologies that make creating software easier. We rely on an internal ecosystem based on self-service and widely used tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Consul, GitHub, and GitHub Actions. Thanks to this, you can contribute to Allegro from your very first days on the job.

• You will be equipped with modern AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, allowing you to focus on developing new services and refining existing ones (also leveraging AI support).

• You will create solutions that will be used (and loved!) by your friends, family and millions of our customers.

• You will meet the Allegro Scale, which starts with over 1000 microservices, an open-source data bus (Hermes) with 300K+ rps, a Service Mesh with 1M+ rps, tens of petabytes of data, and production-used machine learning.

• You will become part of Allegro Tech - We speak at industry conferences, cooperate with tech communities, run our own blog (it's been over 10 years!), record podcasts, lead guilds, and we organize our own internal conference - the Allegro Tech Meeting. We create solutions we love (and can) to talk about!

Send us your CV and… see you at Allegro!