Job Summary
Company Description
Our partner is a leading technology company headquartered in Cluj-Napoca, with offices in Oradea and Munich. Over the past 17 years, the company has been establishing itself as an employer of choice for IT professionals who are passionate about problem-solving through technology and want to have a measurable impact through their work.
A trusted partner for major brands in Retail, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, and Automotive, they help businesses embrace flexibility, adaptability, and evolution within their digital journey, through a large spectrum of tailored IT services, leveraging mainstream, niche, as well as legacy technologies.
Its sister company delivers complex digital evolution solutions for highly regulated industries like Insurance and Banking and, together, the two companies cover the complete digital evolution journey of their customers, from hardware to software and managed services solutions.
With more than 700 IT professionals in its 13+ Competency Areas, the two sister companies join forces to build a distinctive people-first culture that enables their people to thrive, their clients’ business to evolve, and end-users to succeed.
About the role
Our client is a European insurtech company providing digital insurance solutions and embedded protection products, enabling seamless integration of insurance offerings into e-commerce and financial platforms across multiple markets.
Responsibilities
- Design and build high-performance services: design, develop and maintain scalable gRPC and REST APIs powering core insurance services, taking ownership of complex services and their evolution.
- Own delivery at system level: lead microservices and larger system components end to end, from requirements and architecture through implementation, deployment and operational ownership in production.
- Contribute to technical direction: provide input on technology choices, design patterns and service boundaries, and participate in architecture discussions led by Tech Leads and Architects.
- Mentor and elevate the team: coach mid-level and junior engineers through design reviews, pairing and constructive code reviews.
- Champion engineering excellence: establish and enforce best practices in automated testing, observability, CI/CD and operational readiness.
- Lead in production: act as a senior escalation point for complex incidents and drive root-cause analysis, reliability improvements and cost or performance optimisation.
- Ensure compliance and security: embed security policies, coding standards and regulatory requirements of the financial and insurance sector into design decisions from the start.
Must have
- 8+ years of backend development experience, with 5+ years working with Golang in production.
- Proven track record designing and evolving gRPC and REST APIs at scale, including ownership of complex service-level design decisions.
- Expert-level understanding of distributed systems, microservices architectures, event-driven design and cloud-native patterns.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and modern DevOps workflows, including production troubleshooting at scale.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL (data modelling, performance tuning) and message queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and driving adoption of engineering best practices.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for clean, efficient, maintainable systems.
- Regular and responsible use of AI tools to improve productivity and quality of outcomes, and the ability to guide others in doing the same.
- Excellent English communication skills and the ability to explain design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to have
- Experience in insurance, fintech or broader financial services.
- Deep familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or Jaeger.
- Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure), ideally including cost optimisation.
- Infrastructure as code: Terraform, Helm.
- Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams or contributing to platform-level decisions.
- German language skills are a plus.
