Senior Software Engineer

ABOUT GRAVITEE

In 2015, four developers met while working on API strategy and implementation. The API world and API platforms were unnecessarily complex and no powerful open source solutions existed. Together, they decided to build a complete API platform providing business owners effortless control over their entire API ecosystem.Gravitee.io is the leading open-source API platform, enabling worldwide developers and business users to build, manage and monitor their APIs. As a team, we are driven by the purpose of giving customers effortless control over their growing API ecosystem and a strong belief in the ethos of open source. By understanding customers’ connectivity challenges and anticipating their needs, we provide the most intuitive platform. We are growing rapidly and we are looking for exceptional people who are excited to join us on this career-defining journey.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Gravitee.io is taking APIs to the next level — we are the premier, open-source APIplatform and we want everyone to know how amazing our software is. To make this happen, we need someone passionate, ambitious, curious and competitive looking to help our business and play a fundamental role in building something special. This is where you come in! We are expanding globally to serve the needs of our largeInternational clients who are predominantly in banking, healthcare, insurance, and more.This is a full-time role, based anywhere in Argentina, with the ability to work flexibly with our UK/French/Indian teams occasionally.  (Working hours: 10 am - 6 pm local time. - TBC) 

Gravitee is the natural force of connection within the API space — join Gravitee.io and connect with your ideal opportunity. As a Software Engineer, you will be part of a Support team dedicated to making Gravitee’s products best in class both in terms of features and in UX. From time to time you will also be responsible for delivering exceptional technical support to our customers. This is a hands-on, critical role in our organization and highly technical. The right candidate will enjoy problem solving with our clients in a highly specialized and technical way. Gravitee clients are the end-users of our platforms and are as technical as you are!

• Assist the support team to help customers have the best experience possible with our products
• Interact with the Product Owner to help define the future of Gravitee’s productsDevelop new end-to-end features: from design to implementation (develop and integrate APIs and the front-end interfaces and visualizations they power to deliver product features)
• Work with other team members to develop and maintain new features
• Participate in Tech Sprint during which the focus is made on improving the existing codebase
• Share your (tech and non-tech) knowledge during our internal Gravitee TechTalk
• Leading the investigation of multiple Support Tickets and working collaboratively to understand and resolve customer issues providing the best solution possible
• Prioritising issues and giving our customers (both internal and external), located in multiple countries and time zones, the level of duty and care they need to help implement our platform in their environments
• Creating knowledge articles to complete our documentation and enabling customers to better understand product use cases
• Being innovative within the team and with customer to help improve processes and tools

• 10+ years of professional experience in application development
• You are fluent with modern versions of Java and have used it in wide backend applications
• You already have successfully built a UI app using TypeScript with Angular oranother modern web framework
• You understand the value of writing automated tests to prevent regression bugs
• You like sharing knowledge and continuous learning is important to you
• You are curious about and want to be part of all aspects of a project like CI,dependency management, and vulnerability management
• You are patient, resilient and have great problem solving skills
• You possess great attention to detail and provide accurate solutions to internal and external stakeholders

• Backend Skills : Java 17Spring (Data, Security etc.)
• Database knowledge : JPA, JDBC, Spring Data
• Testing: JUnit 5, Jest
• Frontend Skills: Angular 17
• Relational Databases (Tools) : MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL or something equivalent
• Messaging: Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, Solace, MQTT or something equivalent
• Metrics and Tracing: Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTracing, Jaeger
• Continuous Integration and Deployment: CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD
• Build Automation Tools: Maven, Yarn

• Testing: Cypress
• Backend: Liquidbase, Vertx, RXJava
• Frontend Skills: Cypress, Jest, Angular Material Harness, Storybook
• NoSQL Databases (Tools): ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis
• Cloud: Azure

CORE VALUES

At Gravitee, we believe strongly in living our core values as a team and as a company we don’t just write them- we live them. Our company is based on employees who work and operate with the principles of:

● Passion: Work because you love it. Use your sense of passion to become anexpert in your field, to think about where our market is going, how to improve andhow to do things better.

● Do What It Takes: Work with speed, fight and intensity to ensure the job is done to your highest standard.

● Professionalism: Respond to needs quickly, in a polite and respectful way, to our internal and external customers.