Karat role - Senior Software Engineer

Karat Role - Senior Software Engineer

Role - Senior Software Engineer

Location – Kraków, Poland - Hybrid

Role - Contract
 

Roles and Responsibilities
·       10+ Years of Experience
·       Be involved in analytical activities to understand the scope of a control and how our Platform services could fulfil it for their tenants. This is a large part of the role and will help us understand how we can engineer our controls to automate them.
·       Be part of the engineering team tasked with building the automation services, workflows and integrations needed to automate controls at scale.
·       Have strong software engineering skills, particularly when developing APIs, data schemas and
·       process flows.
·       Conceptualise, design and develop solutions to automate controls.
·       Demonstrate operational, delivery and engineering excellence when developing the Platform Control Plane.
·       Actively drive continuous improvement, mature the organisation and improve productivity. Focus on automation, process improvement, reuse.
·       Collaborates across functional areas to define, prioritize and ensure implementation of innovations to improve our controls for Tenants of Engineering Platforms.

Skills & Experience Required
Understand Technology Platforms - Internal Developer Platforms and Hosting Platforms, Internal and Cloud.
Engineering skills
·       Experience in several languages, Polygot. Database and schemas, API development, basic understanding of Linux and web technologies. Experience in deploying within HSBC would be helpful but not essential.
·       Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related discipline.
·       8+ years of software engineering experience
·       Experience in a technical lead role focused on DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE would be beneficial but not essential
·       Solid understanding of how the internet and HTTP work under the hood — DNS, TLS, load balancing, reverse proxies, service meshes, and API gateways — and how these come together in modern microservice architectures.
·       Strong programming ability (structured and OOP) in one or more of: Java, JavaScript or Python
·       Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and InfluxDB; familiarity with time-series databases and data visualisation concepts.
·       Iterative technology delivery - Delivering in small iterations to deliver value faster
·       Self-motivated, enthusiastic and proven fast learner.
·       Collaboration - Driving technical alignment across global teams in diverse locations and time-zones, including mentoring and enabling maturing offshore engineering teams.
·       Stakeholder management - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, team player, with extensive leadership and senior stakeholder management experience.
·       Proficiency in English. We are a diverse company. Ability to communicate on a business level with everyone is a must.
·       Reporting and presenting skills. You must know how to analyse and present recruitment data in a clear manner.
·       Innovative thinking. We don’t settle for mediocracy, and neither should you. You must be able to challenge conventional approach and create new ways of working in dynamically changing world