Software Engineer (Java) - Platform Team

Job Description

Important things for you:

• The salary range for this position is as follows (contract of employment, tax-deductible cost):
  14 200 - 19 690 PLN in gross terms

• Additionally, depending on your annual assessment and the company's results:
  Annual bonus up to 10% of the annual salary gross

• A hybrid work model requires 1 day a week in the office

Join Allegro Pay - where FinTech Innovation meets Platform excellence!

Are you excited about making a big impact in the FinTech industry? Allegro Pay, the top financial technology company from Central Europe, is searching for a dynamic Platform Engineer to join our success story driven by Azure, .NET, and JAVA. We are expanding our platform to the JAVA ecosystem and looking for a JAVA platform Engineer! Here's why you should join us:

• Big Scale: Immerse yourself in the exciting world of Allegro Pay, where your Platform and JAVA skills will tackle challenges on a large scale. You'll be contributing to financial solutions that affect over a million people (handling 60+ million requests daily and managing dozens of terabytes of data).

• Engineering Maturity: Join a culture that mirrors the top tech giants. Our commitment to engineering excellence and maturity puts us on par with industry leaders like FAANG companies. (11 of 12 in Pragmatic Engineer Score)

• Best-in-Class Expertise: Work alongside the best experts in the field, collaborating to push the boundaries of what's possible in FinTech. Our team includes MVPs and many conference speakers.

• Impactful Products: Imagine this – your work at Allegro Pay contributes to creating products that you, your family, and friends might already use daily. See the direct impact of your efforts on the FinTech landscape (with 120+ deployments per month).

• First-Citizen Platform: Play a key role in developing our first-citizen platform, empowering developers to achieve more. Contribute to a culture that prioritizes tools and automation, enhancing the developer experience.

Are you ready to be a game-changer in a team that values innovation and expertise? Apply now and become a key player in shaping the future of FinTech with Allegro Pay!

Still skeptical? Check out the data and learn more about us from this booklet:

https://allegro.tech/booklet-pay.pdf

Team tech stack:

• Azure, Azure DevOps, AKS (kubernetes), Azure Pipelines (yaml), Powershell, bash, ArgoCD, helm, Istio, nginx, prometheus, backstage, .NET, JAVA

We are looking for people who:

• Have deep knowledge of JAVA

• Understand distributed systems and their design

• Want to build software and tools for other developers

• Want to be proud of the code they write but are also willing to accept feedback and share their knowledge during code reviews

• Can search for efficient solutions to meet users’ needs

• Are eager to continuously develop their skills and expand their knowledge


• Know English at B2 level

The following are also a plus:

• Have experience with public cloud services (preferably Azure)

• Are familiar with one or more of the following: scripting languages like PowerShell or bash, Kubernetes, automation, Azure DevOps, platform engineering

Additionally, we offer:

• Well-located office (with fully equipped kitchens and bicycle parking facilities) and excellent working tools (height-adjustable desks, interactive conference rooms)

• A wide selection of fringe benefits in a cafeteria plan – you choose what you like (e.g. medical, sports or lunch packages, insurance, purchase vouchers)

• English classes that we pay for, related to the specific nature of your job

• Laptop with m1 processor, 32GB RAM, SSD - a 16” or 14” MacBook Pro or corresponding Dell with Windows (if you don’t like Macs), two monitors and all other gadgets that you should need

• Working in a team you can always count on — we have on board top-class specialists and experts in their areas of expertise

• A high degree of autonomy in terms of organizing your team’s work; we encourage you to develop continuously and try out new things

• Hackathons, team tourism, training budget and an internal educational platform, MindUp (including training courses on work organization, means of communications, motivation to work and various technologies and subject-matter issues)

• If you want to learn more, check it out

In your daily work you will handle the following tasks:

• You will develop and maintain tools for developers in the Java ecosystem, mostly in Kotlin, using Java 21 version

• You will design and implement high availability on multi-region setup

• You will research new technologies, execute proof of concepts, and write down analysis

• With your expertise, you will help developers from product teams use the platform in an efficient way

• All of the above in one of the biggest Java and Azure products in Poland, with 1000+ microservices and over 14 million happy customers!

Why is it worth working with us?

• The IT team is made up of over 1700 members who have shared their knowledge at multiple conferences, such as Dotnetos, Warszawskie Dni Informatyki, DevDays, Code Europe, and co-create a blog: allegro.tech

• We practice Code Review, Continuous Integration, Scrum/Kanban, Domain Driven Design, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, depending on the team

• Technological autonomy: you get to choose which technology solves the problem at hand (no need for management’s consent). You are responsible for what you create

• Over 100 original open source projects and a few thousand stars on github

• We organize Allegro Tech Live event, a 100% remote version of our offline Allegro Tech Talks meetups, and we make guest appearances at the invitation of such communities as Warsaw AI, JUG (Poznań, Łódź, Lublin, Wrocław), WG .Net, Dare IT, Women in Tech Summit

• We focus on development as well. We organize hackathons and internal conferences (e.g. the annual Allegro Tech Meeting), our employees regularly participate in events both in Poland and abroad (Europe and USA), and each team has its own budget for training and study aids. If you want to keep growing and share your knowledge, we will always support you

This may also be of interest to you:

Allegro Tech Podcast → https://podcast.allegro.tech/

Send in your CV and see why it is #dobrzetubyć (#goodtobehere)