Lead Software Engineer

• Provide analysis and solutions to technical and business issues
• Maintain awareness of business and technology strategies and implements technical alternatives and strategies to gain competitive advantage
• Understand and apply technology and corporate vision setting direction on implementation and assist in the development of the strategic technical architecture
• Manage vendor relationships and maintains the complex technical infrastructure of assigned area to meet business requirements
• Serve as expert in area of responsibility, identifies process improvements and problem prevention, and advises department and management of relevant information as appropriate
• Provide technical leadership and consultation to project team members as directed by the project manager
• Partner with DevOps team to enable automated infrastructure delivery, DevSecOps value streams are executed and CI/CD pipelines to deploy services
• Provide architecture guidance to developers based on best practices and in alignment with global standards and collaborate with enterprise architecture and senior management to define cloud strategy and perform PoC on new technologies
• Controls critical cross-functional projects, related project risk and resulting impact on business and strategic plans
• Initiate analysis for complex problems and issues, determine technical alternatives, analyze vendor solutions and negotiate contracts, and develop appropriate standards for technology application
• Perform reviews of new and existing systems to ensure operational integrity and accomplishment of stated objectives
• Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered
• Prepare cost/benefit analyses, functional and detail specifications.

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Computer Science or related majors
• Minimum of 10 years’ applied experience as an API architect
• 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 Java application development, application security and authentication development, Spring Boot, cache and middleware
• Solid knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, load-balancer, etc.
• Expertise in: in JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization.
• distributed system design like microservices, Spring Boot
• Docker, k8s, service mesh
• monitoring and observability technologies like AppDynamics, Splunk, Jaeger, Kiali, Open Telemetry
• cloud and DevOps, familiar to network (VPC) and firewall on cloud, iAM, cloud costing
• Expert-level of SQL coding abilities is preferred
• 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
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, ability to negotiate, resolve conflicts and influence technical choices relating to business, development and architectural requirements.

Knowledge in payments business will be an added advantage.

• Competitive salary
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Additional bonuses for recognition awards
• Multisport card
• Private medical care
• Life insurance
• One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN)
• Corporate parties & events
• CSR initiatives
• Nursery discounts
• Financial support with trainings and education
• Social fund
• Flexible working hours
• Free parking.