Technopride Ltd - JAVA & API Developer

Developer is needed in Kraków, Poland.

Client: Technopride Ltd

Location: Kraków, DS, pl

Contract: Contract

Job Description

We are looking to hire a Java & API Developer for a renowned IT client in Krakow, Poland. This is a contract role and offers a hybrid work opportunity. The role requires 7+ years of experience and involves working from the Krakow office 2 days per week.

The role includes the following major responsibilities:

• Deliver engineering expertise for Future State Architecture, producing best-in-class payment processing capabilities.
• Deliver high-quality code artifacts 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 new capabilities.
• Support transformation of the current payment estate, with a focus on modernization and adoption of cloud-based technology.

The role includes the following major accountabilities:

• Set the level expected for software delivery within the team, leading by example.
• Serve as an expert in the area of responsibility, identifying process improvements and problem prevention, advising management as appropriate.
• Provide 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 implement technical alternatives for competitive advantage.
• Maintain the complex technical infrastructure of the assigned area to meet business requirements.
• Provide technical solutions to business problems, leadership, and direction to management.
• Keep current on technical and professional advances and business strategies in the area of responsibility.
• Resolve architectural or development blockers raised.
• Partner with the DevOps team to enable automated infrastructure delivery and execute CI/CD pipelines.
• Initiate analysis for complex problems, 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.
• Prepare cost/benefit analyses and functional specifications for large systems.
• Provide guidance in planning, designing, programming, documentation, and implementation of systems.
• Perform reviews of new and existing systems to ensure operational integrity.
• Design, code, test, debug, and document programs as required.
• Provide architecture guidance to developers based on best practices and global standards.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant controls and standards.
• Stay up-to-date on current tools and technologies, particularly regarding cyber security and regulations.

Requirements

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 artifacts such as gap analysis, low-level designs, and data models.
• More than 5 years of engineering background in back-end microservices application development, application security, and authentication development.
• More than 8 years’ experience programming in Java, and ideally Go and Rust.
• Expertise in JVM tuning and diagnostics for application troubleshooting and performance optimization.
• Expertise in distributed system design, including microservices and Springboot.
• Experience working with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and service mesh.
• Experience with monitoring and observability technologies: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, OpenTelemetry.
• Experience in cloud and DevOps, familiar with network (VPC) and firewall on cloud, identity and access management.
• Demonstrable knowledge of infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, and Kubernetes CNI.
• Strong SQL coding abilities are preferred.
• Experience working in a financial institution, ideally in payments.
• Ability to work independently and think outside the box.
• Passion and ability to lead/motivate and develop technologists, including mentoring and coaching.
• Superior listening skills, ability to learn quickly, and accountability for success.
• Extensive critical thinking skills for problem identification and solution recommendation.
• Exceptional team player, able to lead others and demonstrate sound business judgment.
• Highly flexible, capable of setting priorities and meeting deadlines in a changing environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to negotiate and influence technical choices.

Additional Information

This is a contract role based in Krakow, Poland, with a hybrid working model. Candidates are expected to work from the office 2 days per week.