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!

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

Do not hesitate and join our team!

Tech stack

• Java
• API