Assignment description 

Our client is looking for a highly engaged, self motivated and hardworking backend engineer to join and help them deliver on their vision and transform their existing solutions to meet the demands of the Commerce platform.

The team Platform Access and Lifecycle Management (PALM) within Commerce has the mission to make commerce effortless and accessible through a suite of products and datasets that abstract complexity. As a core member of Platform Access and Lifecycle Management, you are responsible for integration between third party resellers and partners of the client. The team in turn integrates with their core Commerce Platform including catalog, fulfilment, subscriptions and finance teams.

At the moment, the team is responsible for 4 core systems which handle integrations with external and internal systems. Internally they use gRPC and event based processing (harnessing the power of Pub/Sub and GCS as a message bus), while externally integrate with various synchronous/asynchronous APIs and protocols.

What you’ll do:

• Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate highly available and fault-tolerant microservices in a DevOps manner
• Write and commit code to their code base in collaboration with your own team members and other teams
• Hold knowledge sharing sessions within and outside the team
• Hold your team accountable for incidents, driving improvements to fix root causes and implement preventive measures
• Be a valued member of an autonomous, high-performance agile team
• Contribute to team product roadmap, technical strategy, priorities and code delivery
• Initiate and coordinate communications and collaboration with multiple customers/stakeholders/teams within the company
• Exhibiting servant leadership in your interactions and driving inclusion and psychological safety in your squad

Requirements:

• Passionate about engineering practices like agile, clean code, continuous delivery, observability and reliability
• Experience programming in Java
• Experience with Kubernetes, Cloud Development (GCP, AWS or Azure)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• Understanding of Integration Patterns, protocols, API Design, Security
• Experience in integrating APIs and client libraries used by multiple engineering teams and have worked with protocols like gRPC, REST GraphQL
• Background in architecting, designing, developing and maintaining highly available and fault tolerant distributed applications
• You care bringing value and satisfaction to your customer
• You are comfortable working collaboratively on an agile team in a remote first environment
• You have a growth mindset, are curious and not afraid to be experimental
• You share your ideas and continuously improve yourself and the team around you

Nice to have:

• Some experience in Data Engineering
• Experience of working with ITGC, GDPR and SOX-compliance (common in FinTech)