FullStack Engineer (API Engineer)

O projekcie: 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 Wymagania: 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