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Wolters Kluwer is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the finance, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, health and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.
Job Description
As our 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 backed service developer, but you are not shying away from some smaller frontend 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 finding to the teams and leadership for decision making
- Demonstrate your delivered feature in a regular all-team demo session
- Participate in Agile ceremonies like standups, estimation, elaboration, retrospectives and PI planning and represent the work assigned
Requirements:
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 Power BI)
Top Skills
What We Do
Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services.
Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, the company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide.
Wolters Kluwer reported 2019 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Wolters Kluwer shares (WKL) are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
