Polyglot Developer

ALTEN Romania is part of the ALTEN Group, Leader in IT and Engineering Consulting. We develop innovative and durable technical solutions that fulfill the needs of our local and international partners.

About the role:

We are looking for a Polyglot Developer (Backend + notion of Frontend) to help analyse and modernize legacy custom dev applications for deployment in a cloud-native environment. You will work closely with cloud architects and DevOps teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Read and analyze existing code to identify the things to be updated and fixed

• Being able to properly start the application locally within an IDE to become efficient in troubleshooting

• Identify dependencies, legacy patterns, and potential migration blockers

• Being able to fix SAST critical issues

• Update application to be linked to a Single Sign On solution (OAUTH2/OIDC, SAMLv2), whether it is custom dev or vendor solution (Commercial off the shelf)

• Update backend dependencies to under support version

• Refactor applications to support containerization and CI/CD pipelines (producing dockerfile)

• Collaborate with cloud and security architects to ensure compliance and best practices

• Produce clear documentation, including application overviews, architecture diagrams, and migration plans

• Deal with SQL issue for applications that need a database upgrade/switch to another database vendor.

• Setup observability and capability that will accelerate troubleshooting and application lifecycle management

Tech Stack (Required Skills):

• Back-end / Front-end: Notion or interest in learning for PHP, Java, .Net, Node, Python, Javascript (at least one programming language should be mastered and another known)

• CI/CD: Git, GitLab CI

• Tooling: SonarQube, SAST, DAST, Intellij or VScode

• Cloud: Notions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Tanzu

• Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), Oauth2 OIDC, SAMLv2

• Methodologies: Agile / Kanban

Other Skills:

• At least 5 years of experience in one backend programming language, 2+ on another one

• Autonomous and comfortable working with modernizing legacy code and learning new things

• Interest in cloud-native principles and containerization

• Willingness to grow in infrastructure, DevOps, and CI/CD practices

• Collaborative, structured, and adaptable – essential qualities in a complex enterprise environment