Lead Product Software Engineer

At Wolters Kluwer, you’ll be part of a global technology company providing expert software and information solutions that leading professionals rely on.

As a Lead 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 backend 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 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 of 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

• Some level of proficiency with each technology below (or similar technologies) is desirable; at minimum, you can show a track record in a project of similar complexity where you had a role that touched these technologies or similar

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)