Senior Java & API Engineer – Cloud & Microservices

Technopride Ltd; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Technopride Ltd in Krakow, Poland seeks an experienced Java & API Developer for a contract role with hybrid work 2 days per week in Krakow. The role requires 7+ years of experience, strong API design, and backend microservices expertise; you will contribute to future state architecture and modernization of the payment estate.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, deliver high-quality code, ensure security, and support DevOps/CI-CD initiatives in a payments-focused environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering or related field.
• 8+ years as API engineer or similar.
• Strong API design experience with architectural artefacts.
• Back-end microservices development with security and auth.
• 8+ years Java; Go and Rust preferred.
• Experience with Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh.
• Knowledge of monitoring: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger, Kiali, OpenTelemetry.
• Cloud, DevOps, networking (VPC), IAM, and cloud cost sizing.
• Linux OS, networking, storage, and Kubernetes CNI knowledge.
• SQL coding abilities preferred.
• Experience in financial institutions/payments.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Excellent English, communication, and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Deliver engineering expertise for Future State Architecture and payments processing.
• Deliver high quality code artifacts with robust test scripts.
• Focus on highly available, resilient software and service capability.
• Participate in a wider delivery team developing new capabilities.
• Support modernization and cloud adoption of the payment estate.
• Set expectations for software delivery and lead by example.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to project teams.
• Work with DevOps to enable automated infrastructure delivery and CI/CD pipelines.
• Feasibility studies, cost/benefit analyses and architectural guidance.
• Maintain complex infrastructure to meet business requirements.

Skills

API design

Java

Go

Rust

Microservices

JVM tuning

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Service mesh

Cloud & DevOps

Linux OS

SQL

Payments domain

Leadership

English communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Service mesh

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Jaeger

Kiali

OpenTelemetry

Linux OS

Job description

Technopride Ltd in Krakow, Poland seeks an experienced Java & API Developer for a contract role with hybrid work 2 days per week in Krakow. The role requires 7+ years of experience, strong API design, and backend microservices expertise; you will contribute to future state architecture and modernization of the payment estate.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, deliver high-quality code, ensure security, and support DevOps/CI-CD initiatives in a payments-focused environment.