Requirements
- You bring strong experience designing and evolving distributed systems and microservices architectures
- You’ve operated at Principal or Staff level, shaping technical direction across multiple teams or domains
- You are comfortable staying hands-on, contributing in code, design and delivery when needed
- You have strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and modern infrastructure practices
- You’ve worked on systems where scale, reliability, performance and cost trade-offs matter, and can navigate those decisions thoughtfully
- You have proven experience in data architecture (e.g. data platforms, pipelines, warehousing or data lakes)
- You can take loosely defined (early stage) business or technical problems and turn them into clear, actionable technical approaches
- You communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively, and produce structured documentation that helps both technical and non-technical audiences make decisions
- You’ve contributed to engineering standards, architecture patterns or platform direction
- Interest in or exposure to AI-enabled systems, particularly understanding architectural implications in production
Nice to Have
- Experience with REST API design in complex, multi-service environments
- Experience breaking monolithic applications into microservices architectures
- Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g. Kafka, schema governance)
- Experience improving cloud cost and system efficiency at scale
- Familiarity with a range of tools and technologies including:
- Development: Kotlin, Java
- Data storage: DynamoDB, MySQL
- Infrastructure as code and CI/CD: Terraform, GitLab CI/CD
Additional Information
- 25 days holiday per year plus the Christmas Shutdown (another 3-4 days)
- Premium medical care via Regina Maria
- Mental health support
- Menopause support
- Regular social gatherings with a monthly allowance for each employee
- Up to €1000 training budget per year
- €200 to spend on your home office
- Choice of workstation
- Ability to work for up to 3 months per year from any country in the world