Solution Architect Krakow, Poland

Project technologies and tools

• Java 11+
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, NGINX
• AWS S3, Lambda, RDS
• PostgreSQL
• Kafka
• MQTT
• Jenkins Pipeline
• Prometheus, Grafana
• ELK
• Ansible
• XML, YAML, JSON, REST

Responsibilities

• Creating, documenting and socializing E2E architecture solutions for business problems
• Raising and implementing architecture and solution improvements
• Lead teams (no formal reporting) to achieve engineering maturity
• Participation in estimation sessions
• Requirements clarification
• Planning – both long-term and short-term
• Customer communication
• Participation in code review process for critical components
• Documenting key technical decisions and designs
• Work distribution:
  • 50% solutioning & planning
  • 50% coding

Requirements

• 8+ years of practical hands-on experience in software development in Java and related technologies
• 2+ projects in technical team lead role with constant hands-on work during last 3 years
• Experience with creating microservices based solution
• Soft skills: work with distributed, independent team with internal open source spirit
• Strong OO design and OO programming skills
• Solid understanding of design patterns and concepts like OOD, TDD, CI/CD
• Upper Intermediate English
• Strong analytical thinking and ability to solve algorithmic tasks
• Solid experience working with Java core
• Strong communication skills and capability of successful collaboration with cross- functional teams
• Ability to hold and drive a customer facing meetings
• Automation-first mindset
• Ability to review and validate system architecture from maintainability point
• Ability to deep-dive in new technology and get familiar with it in short terms (and pass this knowledge to others)
• Ability to compile high level view of entire system from independent parts
• Ability to clearly visualize conceptual things
• Can create system architecture documentation, work/feature-breakdown structure document and other related artifacts with deep technical details
• Can act as Team Lead able to support end-to-end project cycle
• Can produce high level estimations with technology risks raw estimations on the implementation of architectural assets
• Translates customer's requirements to the tech language and communicate them to the development and operations teams, and to the business
• Able to work closely with business to identify and document requirements and key case-studies/scenarios for the future solution

Nice to have

• Spring
• Python, Go
• Redis, Hazelcast
• Terracotta
• GraphQL

We offer

• Possibility to be involved in an international project (Canada, China, Hong Kong, Mexico, USA, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Hungary, etc.)
• English language classes
• Vast opportunities for self-development: online courses and library, experience exchange with colleagues around the world, partial grant of certification
• Career development center
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Possibility to take part in both: corporate and startup environment
• Possibility to relocate for short and long-term projects
• Relocation package for those who relocate to Krakow, Wroclaw, Katowice or Gdansk from other locations
• Benefit package (health care, multisport, lunch tickets, petrol vouchers and shopping vouchers, etc.)
• Fruits on a weekly basis
• Sponsored sport activities
• We kindly ask you to include the following clause in your application: "Wyrażam zgodę na przetwarzanie danych osobowych zawartych w niniejszym dokumencie do realizacji procesu rekrutacji zgodnie z ustawą z dnia 10 maja 2018 roku o ochronie danych osobowych (Dz. Ustaw z 2018, poz. 1000) oraz zgodnie z Rozporządzeniem Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady (UE) 2016/679 z dnia 27 kwietnia 2016 r. w sprawie ochrony osób fizycznych w związku z przetwarzaniem danych osobowych i w sprawie swobodnego przepływu takich danych oraz uchylenia dyrektywy 95/46/WE (RODO)"
• Please note that only selected candidates will be contacted