Application Platform Engineer

Job summary

The role involves owning and managing shared application-layer services that support various product teams. The focus is on ensuring reliability, design quality, and ease of use across a microservices architecture.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in backend or platform engineering, particularly with shared application services.
• Strong production experience with Java and Spring Boot, emphasizing clean and maintainable code.
• Hands-on experience with deploying and debugging services on Kubernetes in a production environment.
• Proficient in designing MySQL schemas, managing migrations, and optimizing query performance.
• Understanding of message brokers and event-driven patterns, with a focus on asynchronous communication.
• Knowledge of identity and authorization protocols, including OAuth 2.0 and JWT, with a focus on secure implementation.
• Awareness of security, privacy, and compliance considerations, particularly GDPR.
• A product mindset towards platform development, with an emphasis on improving developer experience.
• Enthusiasm for AI and its applications in engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own the shared application platform and design core backend services for payments, identity, and integrations.
• Build and maintain reliable payment services and design compliant payment flows.
• Manage identity and authorization systems, ensuring secure user management.
• Collaborate with security and privacy teams to implement technical controls.
• Own the integration layer for third-party systems, ensuring resilience and observability.
• Enhance the developer experience by creating shared libraries and internal tools.

Skills

• Proficiency in Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, MySQL, and message brokers.
• Experience with security and compliance frameworks, particularly GDPR.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a focus on team improvement.

Education

• Relevant degree in Computer Science or related field is preferred but not explicitly required.

Tools

• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and GitOps tooling like ArgoCD and GitHub Actions is a plus.