#Bethedifference
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Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the finance, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, health and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.
Job Description
As our Product Software Engineer you are responsible for writing, testing, delivering, and supporting a working multi-tenant global system for API publishing in Wolters Kluwer.
As a member of our development team, you help the good functioning of the team in terms of software solution delivery, quality and support. You are primarily a backed service developer, but you are not shying away from some smaller frontend tasks.
You'll play a role in the design decisions, estimation, implementation, and delivery of the system.
The position in the Netherlands (Alphen aan den Rijn). The team you are joining is distributed across Netherlands (Alphen aan den Rijn), East-Europe (Poland, Hungary) and India (Pune).
We are looking for somebody with a mindset to develop in the full vertical, and if experience is missing, the willingness to acquire the knowledge.
The project’s architecture includes the following domains:
A frontend portal for discovery and self-service management for several roles in the API product publishing landscape (Javascript/Typescript/Angular)A ‘control plane’ with several micro-services to serve the front-end and data plane needs (Java/MySQL/Javascript/Typescript)Several ‘data planes’ with gateways and adapters that front-end WK APIs (Envoy/Lua/Java/Kubernetes/Redis)Responsibilities
Develop new features in the backend micro-services in JavaMaintain existing code across several micro-services when bugs or improvements are neededUpdate (small) client changes in TypeScript. Larger client changes will be delegated to experts, but some level of JavaScript/TypeScript is highly desirable.Take ownership of the functional quality your features by writing several levels of testing in Java unit tests and a WK, JavaScript based integration test frameworkUnderstand and maintain your component’s deployment descriptors (Kubernetes, Docker Compose)Document your designs by elaborating on several alternative approaches and analyzing pro’s and con’s for each and presenting your finding to the teams and leadership for decision makingDemonstrate your delivered feature in a regular all-team demo sessionParticipate in Agile ceremonies like standups, estimation, elaboration, retrospectives and PI planning and represent the work assignedRequirements:
Technologies you'll be working with will include:
JavaJavascript/TypescriptEnvoy proxyKubernetesAWS and Azure cloud servicesArgoCD/ArgoWorkflowJinja2 templatingLua scriptingOpen policy agentObservability tools (Kibana, Grafana)Business Intelligence Data Management (AWS S3/Glue/Athena, MS Power BI)