Senior Software Engineer

Greetings From Ampstek

Job : Senior Software Engineer

Location : Krakow, Poland

Duration : 6 Months

Experience : 5+ Years of experience

Drop CV at [email protected]

Job Description:

Qualifications and experience

The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience and qualifications:

 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.

 Comes from Software Engineering background with infrastructure experience.

 5+ years of development experience with a strong focus on large-scale, distributed systems.

 Proficient in Python and GoLang.

 Experience with Liquibase or similar tools for database change management and version control.

 Hands-on experience with AWS and/or GCP, including cloud-native services, networking, IAM, and cost optimization.

Experience with other cloud providers is desirable.

 Proven experience with DevOps practices, including Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), and containerization.

 Strong understanding of security principles in cloud and enterprise systems.

 Familiarity with audit and compliance considerations in regulated industries, particularly finance or banking.

 Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.

 A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, using appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success.

Essential Skills

Demonstrable experience of:

• Public Cloud.
• Infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including Compute, Storage, Networking.
• Linux.
• Relational and NoSQL databases.

PUBLIC

o Integration services such as messaging and streams.

o Building RESTful API Services.

o Containerisation, Kubernetes, serverless functions.

o Microservices, and distributed tracing.

o Enterprise logging, monitoring, and alerting frameworks (e.g., ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).

o Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.).

 Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools.

 Experience working within an Agile environment.

 Programming experience in following languages: Python, Java, GoLang.

 Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools.

 Good non-functional testing experience.

Desirable Skills

 Experience working in financial services or other regulated environments.

 AWS/GCP certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Engineer).

 Good understanding of cryptography

Key Accountabilities will include:

• Design, develop and maintain highly available, secure, and performant backend REST API services along with frontend client using Python, GoLang, Docker and Cloud-Native services.
• Implement and manage database schema changes using Liquibase, ensuring alignment with compliance and audi standards.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with DevOps and Security teams, with a focus on traceability and regulatory controls.
• Manage, monitor, and optimize cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP, ensuring resilience, cost-efficiency, and data security.
• Collaborate closely with infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to meet internal risk, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Support live systems, perform root cause analysis, and implement solutions for incidents and performance bottlenecks.