Backend Engineer (Freelance)

About APC

Amsterdam Platform Creation (APC), founded in 2020, supports fintech firms that deliver best-in-class financial related services. Our experienced and talented experts help these firms in becoming better and growing into something bigger. We believe that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We provide assistance in all aspects of platform commercialization, including development, design, UX-design, technical implementation, and on/offline advertising to optimize the client funnel.

Position

Our drive

We founded APC with the goal of helping people be better by managing their money more wisely. Our belief is that by strategically investing in the best-in-class fintech firms, we can help them improve while also building them into bigger, kick-ass platforms where the connected services empower our users to spend and save smarter.

As a result, we are rapidly growing and searching for smart, curious people to help us revolutionize the financial industry and make it more accountable, accessible, and humane.

About the job

If you think that “one programming language is not enough”, feel like the best technology is the one that fits the purpose, have a self-starter attitude and tech-driven curiosity, know that a good opinion must be shared, you can proceed with reading.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer who will be responsible for designing and developing a highly decoupled micro services systems that can handle complicated business flow and can interact with various 3rd party systems at scale. In this role, you will have the opportunity to build from the ground up with an obsession towards making these experiences memorable for the customers.

What you will be doing

• Design, implement and test software services (Java/Kotlin or Go)
• Manage availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of APC Software Services
• Analyze Software performance and system tunning
• Be doing bug fixing and write monitoring and detection tools to prevent recurrence
• Work in “microservice mesh” application development and Agile environment
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems
• Continuous learning and researching for identifying shortcomings and opportunities for software services improvements
• Have fun with your team!

Your qualification

Being an expert in:

• One or more of: Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, C++
• Data structures, algorithm design, problem-solving, complexity analysis, secure coding best practices and remediation
• Designing, building and maintaining large-scale, high-performance systems and frameworks
• Object-oriented concepts and systems design patterns
• Analyzing and troubleshooting distributed systems
• Tackling problems of load, scale, and optimizations of complex large-scale deployments
• Modern server scaling technologies on Linux (e.g., async, non-blocking I/O, multithreading)

Being experienced in:

• Architecture and design of cloud-scale distributed systems
• IP networking, network analysis, performance and application issues
• Event-driven architecture and technologies
• Message-Brokers(e.g. RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ)and Event-Streaming( e.g. Kafka) solutions
• RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or distributed NoSQL Database systems (e.g. MongoDB, Redis, Memcached)
• Automated CI/CD solutions
• High availability and business continuity principles
• Cloud technologies (preferably GCP)
• Containerization and container orchestration technologies (preferably K8s)
• One or more of: Python, Shell, Perl

What we offer

• A big challenge. Start with a blank page
• An exciting adventure. Feels good to do something that you don’t know yet, right?
• Great colleagues. You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your colleagues!
• Variety. You will work for APC and all its portfolio brands. Every day is different!
• Transparency. You don’t execute the roadmap; you are part of it. No office politics here!
• Momentum. We move at lightning speed
• Entrepreneurship. Become a self-starter
• Work hard, play harder. We get it done and pop champagne
• Good compensation. Great skills come with great benefits

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of APC.