About This Role
This role is for an experienced professional to design, build, and maintain high-quality, stable, and resilient software solutions, focusing on high-performance services and system-level delivery. The position involves contributing to technical direction, mentoring junior engineers, and championing engineering excellence within a dynamic team.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable APIs (gRPC and REST) powering core insurance services, taking ownership of complex services and their evolution
- Lead microservices and larger system components end-to-end, from requirements and architecture through implementation, deployment, and operational ownership in production
- Provide input on technology choices, design patterns, and service boundaries; participate in architecture discussions led by Tech Leads and Architects
- Coach mid-level and junior engineers through design reviews, pairing, and constructive code reviews; raise the engineering bar across the team
- Establish and enforce best practices in automated testing, observability (tracing, logging, metrics), CI/CD, and operational readiness
- Act as a senior escalation point for complex incidents; drive root-cause analysis, reliability improvements, and cost/performance optimization
- Embed security policies, coding standards, and regulatory requirements of the financial and insurance sector into design decisions from the start
Requirements
- 8+ years of backend development experience, with 5+ years working with Golang in production
- Proven track record designing and evolving gRPC and REST-based 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 containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and modern DevOps workflows, including production troubleshooting at scale
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL (data modeling, performance tuning) and message queues (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and driving adoption of engineering best practices across a team
- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for building clean, efficient, and maintainable systems
- Regular use of AI tools to improve productivity, automate or reduce repetitive work, support decision-making, and deliver higher-quality outcomes
- Ability to use AI tools responsibly by structuring effective prompts, critically validating outputs, understanding limitations, and taking ownership of the final result, and to guide others in doing the same
- Excellent English communication skills, including the ability to communicate design decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders, and to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment
Nice to have:
- Experience in the insurance, fintech, or broader financial services domain
- Deep familiarity with observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure), ideally including cost optimization
- Knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Helm)
- Experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams or contributing to platform-level decisions
- German language skills are a plus
About the Company
HN Services Romania has been part of the Romanian IT market for 20 years and is part of the HN Services Group, with offices in France, Spain, Portugal, and Luxembourg. The company focuses on digital transformation projects and offers continuous growth through its in-house software development training center (HN Training Institute).
