Lead Product Software Engineer

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Join us, at Wolters Kluwer, and be part of a dynamic global technology company that makes a difference every day. We’re innovators with impact. We provide expert software & information solutions that the world’s leading professionals rely on, in the moments that matter most.

You’ll be supported by collaborative colleagues who share a purpose. We are 21,000 people unique in our dreams, life stories, abilities, and passions who come together every day with one ambition: to make a difference.​ We do our best work together, connecting to create new innovations with impact.

As our Lead Product Software Engineer, you are responsible for writing, testing, and 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 front-end 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 Java
• Maintain existing code across several micro-services when bugs or improvements are needed
• Update (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 framework
• Understand 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 findings to the teams and leadership for decision making
• Demonstrate your delivered feature in a regular all-team demo session
• Participating in Agile ceremonies like standups, estimation, elaboration, retrospectives and PI planning and represent the work assigned

Requirements:

• Relevant experience and knowledge in software development

Technologies you'll be working with will include:

• Java
• Javascript/Typescript
• Envoy proxy
• Kubernetes
• AWS and Azure cloud services
• ArgoCD/ArgoWorkflow
• Jinja2 templating
• Lua scripting
• Open Policy Agent
• Observability tools (Kibana, Grafana)
• Business Intelligence Data management (AWS S3/Glue/Athena, MS PowerBI)
• Some level of proficiency with each technology or with similar technologies is desirable, but at least you can show a track record in a project of similar complexity where you had a role that touched these technologies or similar

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.