Why Verifone

For more than 30 years, Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.

Verifone has a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness.

Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets, the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners, and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success.

Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located.

What’s Exciting About the Role

Verifone is seeking a Kafka DevOps Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This is an operations-first role with a strong emphasis on scripting, automation, and pipeline development. You’ll be hands-on with day-to-day Kafka operations, reliability, tuning, and high availability for payment gateway solutions that process billions of transactions annually on-prem and in AWS Cloud. Beyond keeping the lights on, you’ll play a key role in building the data pipelines—of which Kafka is a core component—that power Verifone’s new AI, machine learning, and analytics initiatives. You’ll also be part of an active effort to migrate Kafka and related services to Kubernetes, giving you hands-on experience with a meaningful infrastructure modernization project. The technology footprint is broad: Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, and more—so you’ll grow well beyond a single-technology niche.

Key Responsibilities

Kafka Operations & Reliability

• Manage and support Apache Kafka clusters (including MSK), Kafka Connect ecosystem, and KSQL for high-throughput, fault-tolerant messaging and event streaming pipelines.
• Monitor system health, set up alerts, and drive incident response and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Handle day-to-day operational tasks including offset management, lag monitoring, consumer group management, and cluster rebalancing.
• Perform routine cluster maintenance: upgrades, configuration changes, scaling, and health checks.

Scripting, Automation & DevOps

• Develop and manage automation scripts using Python and Shell scripting to reduce manual toil and improve operational efficiency.
• Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for patching automation.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Containerize and orchestrate workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, with the opportunity to help migrate Kafka and related services to Kubernetes.

Data Pipeline Development

• Build and optimize end-to-end data pipelines, with Kafka as a core streaming component alongside batch and ETL processes, enabling new AI, ML, and analytics use cases.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement best practices for data flow, security, scalability, and performance.
• Continuously identify and implement improvements to the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (VMs, networking, storage, IAM, etc.).
• Support cloud migration tasks and assist in moving workloads between on-prem and cloud environments.

Required Qualifications / Skills

• 4+ years of overall engineering experience with 2+ years of hands-on experience supporting Kafka infrastructure in a large-scale production environment.
• Kafka Producer/Consumer microservices concepts and Kafka distributed architecture.
• Solid Linux fundamentals: networking basics, logs, system troubleshooting, process/memory, disk.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash) with a track record of reducing operational toil.
• CI/CD pipeline development and Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred).
• Cloud engineering skills, preferably AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, MSK/ElastiCache, CloudWatch).
• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics/logs/tracing concepts) and incident response practices.
• Basic understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs (availability, consistency, partitions, backpressure).
• Strong communication and presentation skills with emphasis on executive communication.
• Flexible with regards to working shifts; on-call and weekends.

Preferred Skills (Highly Desired)

Data Engineering & Pipelines

• Data engineering skills including data analytics, data processing, ETL, and data lake technologies (batch and streaming, file formats like Parquet, table formats like Iceberg/Delta/Hudi, basic orchestration).
• Experience with AWS data tools (Athena, Glue, Iceberg, Redshift, etc.).
• Exposure to Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, or similar stream processing frameworks.

Database & Caching Technologies

• Operate Redis deployments for caching, ephemeral state, queues/streams, and rate limiting use cases.
• Relational DB experience: PostgreSQL and/or MySQL (indexing basics, vacuum/analyze, query plans, replication fundamentals).
• MongoDB operational familiarity (replica sets, elections, oplog basics, backup/restore).

Infrastructure & Security

• Container/Kubernetes familiarity (deployments, stateful workloads, storage classes).
• On-prem experience (VMware/KVM, storage, networking).
• Security fundamentals: least privilege, secrets management, encryption-in-transit/at-rest concepts.
• Experience working with PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security) standards.

What We Offer

• Direct impact on Verifone’s global payment infrastructure—your work keeps billions of transactions flowing reliably every year.
• Ground-floor involvement in building the data pipelines that will drive Verifone’s AI, machine learning, and analytics strategy.
• Hands-on participation in a Kafka-to-Kubernetes migration—a resume-building modernization project from day one.
• Multi-technology exposure—Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake—so you grow as a well-rounded platform engineer, not a single-tool specialist.
• Mentorship from senior engineers and Kafka architects with deep production experience.
• Clear career progression path from mid-level to senior and lead engineer.
• Funded certification paths—Confluent (CCDAK, Certified Administrator), AWS (Solutions Architect, MSK Specialty), CKA—plus budget for courses and technical conferences.
• Hybrid/remote working flexibility with a collaborative team culture.
• Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives.

Our Commitment

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Why Verifone

For more than 30 years, Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.

Verifone has a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness.

Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets, the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners, and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success.

Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located.

What's Exciting About the Role

Verifone is seeking an experienced MySQL Lead DBA who will be responsible for ensuring database performance, high availability, and security of clusters and single instances of MySQL instances. You will also be responsible for orchestrating upgrades, backups, HA/DR, and provisioning database instances. You will work closely with other teams, including application architects/ Sr. Developers and application support engineers for architecture design and SQL optimization, establishing and documenting best practices.

We look for dedicated and versatile engineers who are passionate about working in a company whose culture is dedicated to delivering innovative software products that solve our customers’ most challenging business needs. As a Lead DBA, you’ll have the opportunity to make significant and direct impact on our database performance, applications, and solve some of the most complex challenges in cloud and on prem environments, while lead the team from a technical and development perspective.

This hybrid role is open to hiring candidates located in:

• Bucharest, Romania
• London, United Kingdom
• Riga, Lativa
• Warsaw, Poland

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for ensuring that database management policies, processes and procedures are established and followed, adhering to ITIL good practice principles and are subjected to continuous improvement as per PCI standards. They will be responsible for reviewing system design changes to ensure they adhere to expected service standards and recommend changes to ensure maximum stability, availability and efficiency of the supported applications.

The candidate should understand the application functionality, business logics and work with application stake holders to understand the requirement and discuss with the new application features and propose the right solutions. He must liaise closely and work in collaboration with the release management teams, support teams and the infrastructure DBAs. 

• Design, Install, Deploy and Manage MySQL on Physical, Virtual, AWS EC2 / RDS / Aurora.
• Build MySQL clusters with a high availability, active-active cluster setup in a large scale and multi datacenter environments having minimum RPO/RTO on a DR scenario
• Design and implement uniform backup strategy and business continuity plans across the MySQL environments using Percona XtraDB or custom automation scripts with reliable monitoring and alerting mechanisms
• Define thorough and validated database monitoring and alerting, along with documentation for future references
• Setup high availability with Master-Master/ Master-slave replication
• Maintain stable performance via server optimizations
• Guide engineering teams to best practices on server configurations and SQL tuning.
• Maintain security and compliance via OS and database version upgrades
• Work with application stake holders to create effective database solutions
• Create and maintain adhoc reports
• Adhere to the incident and change process, prepare thorough documentation, and peer review planned production tasks
• Support application release process, and automations
• Mentor and develop other engineers on MySQL skills

Required Qualifications/Skills

• Minimum 8 years of experience managing MySQL
• Experience with MySQL Active/Active cluster setup, Database Upgrade and Migrations, Scripting
• Experience administrating MySQL on Linux platform
• Experience with MySQL version upgrades in production environments with a zero or very minimum application down time
• Experience with design & architecting MySQL environments using any framework such as Galera Cluster or Percona XtraDB
• Experience deploying database monitoring using at least one of PMM, New Relic, Datadog, Nagios, Grafana, ELK, AppD, etc.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure, AWS RDS or equivalent.
• Automation/scripting skills in a modern language like Python, Shell scripting, Go, Java, Rust.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab.
• Advanced experience with database performance tuning including SQL tuning, hardware configuration and capacity planning.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring and time management skills.

Preferred Skills (Not Mandatory)

• Experience working with PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security) standards
• ITIL environment experience
• Deep experience with SQL, stored procedures, functions, triggers, batch jobs, reporting, analytics.
• Experience managing PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and/or Oracle.
• Experience and knowledge with NoSQL and data engineering technologies such as Kafka, Redis, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, ETL, etc.
• Experience with data analytics and Business intelligence

Our Commitment

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

About us:

At IONOS, the leading European provider of cloud infrastructure, cloud services and hosting services, you will work together with a wide range of teams. We are characterized by open structures, a friendly working culture and flat hierarchies with a strong team spirit. We firmly believe that work and fun are compatible, and offer you the right environment for this. Our constant growth means that we are always looking for new colleagues. Become part of IONOS and grow with us.

We strive to deliver quality above anything else. 

About the project:

Help us build the future of web hosting while mastering the complexity of the present. We orchestrate the full spectrum of hosting services starting from provisioning, integration, customer interaction - across both legacy and next-gen platforms.
The challenge? Contribute to our future vision while learning from battle-tested systems as we migrate our entire shared hosting customer base to a modern platform, without missing a beat.
The opportunity? Shape the architecture that powers it all.

What you'll get in:

• AI-powered development: Leverage Gemini, Copilot, and Claude Code to accelerate test design, test automation, and defect analysis, then apply your expertise through rigorous test reviews and quality validation;
• Agile engineering culture: Scrum practices, continuous integration, and fast iteration cycles;
• Collaborative environment: Friendly, open team culture where ideas flow freely;
• Deep Cloud & Infrastructure Exposure: Gain hands-on experience with industry-leading platform technologies, including OKD (OpenShift), Kubernetes, and Docker. You won't just be testing; you’ll be working within a modern containerized ecosystem;
• Modern Java Ecosystem: Work closely with the Spring framework, giving you a deep understanding of how enterprise-level microservices are built and orchestrated.

What you'll do:

• Participate in testing and delivery of high quality software;
• Manage the testing process through all phases of the project lifecycle;
• Define, implement and execute:
• Middleware automated functional tests
• Frontend automated tests
• Manual tests, when suitable scenarios demand them
• Non-functional tests
• Integrate the automated test cases into the Continuous Delivery pipeline;
• Maintain both the test suites and the test frameworks;
• Promotion of best practice testing within the team using any other frameworks and tools;
• Investigate, report, document and check bugs resulting from different types of tests;
• Work with colleagues and peer teams, both local and abroad;
• Be a part of our young and dynamic team.

We appreciate:

• Good understanding of software development lifecycle and methodology;
• Java and OOP knowledge;
• Nice to have knowledge of / User experience with behavior-driven development tool Cucumber;
• Background in REST API test automation;
• Knowledge of Playwright / Selenium or any other UI automation tool / framework;
• Knowledge of a build automation tool (i.e. Maven, Gradle);
• Knowledge of relational and / or non-relational databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc);
• Experience with version-control systems, such as Git;
• Basic Linux skills;
• A proactive mindset, who shares his/her ideas and brings them to life;
• Highly motivated, self-driven, good analytical skills with an eye for details and interested in Quality Assurance;
• Good written and verbal English language skills;
• Very good communication skills;
• Nice to have user-level experience with tools like: Jira, Confluence;
• Nice to have knowledge of automation testing tools like: Jmeter;
• Nice to have usage of tools and technologies like: Postman/Insomnia/Bruno, Swagger, Docker, Kubernetes, OKD;
• Nice to have hands-on experience with Continuous Integration platforms (eg. Jenkins);
• Nice to have ISTQB Foundation Level;

What we offer:

• Access to local/international trainings, development and growth opportunities, including access to e-learning platforms, covering both technical and soft skills areas;
• Modern technologies, product responsibility;
• Flexible work schedule;
• Hybrid work option;
• Medical services package from one of two private providers;
• 25 vacation days per year;
• Substitute days off for public holidays that occur on the weekend;
• Meal tickets;
• Internal referral program;
• Team events, networking events organized to promote a passionate, creative and diverse culture;
• Summerfest and Winterfest parties;
• Of course, coffee, soft drinks and fresh fruits are on us in the office.

About the team:

Our OPS and Support team is distributed across three main locations – Munich, Regensburg, and Bucharest – and collaborates closely with other teams across the IONOS Group. We manage a diverse and modern tech stack, including Kubernetes, Proxmox, Ansible, and databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB. We value collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.

About the role:

We’re looking for a forward-thinking leader to oversee our internal platform operations and guide a dedicated team of professionals. In this role, you’ll blend hands-on technical expertise with leadership skills to manage a range of open-source solutions, including Unix/Linux-based systems, databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra), Kubernetes clusters and Kafka. You’ll also collaborate closely with external partners and customers, coordinating on-call rotations to maintain 24/7 service availability. If you’re passionate about fostering a culture of innovation, reliability, and open-source excellence, this position offers the opportunity to shape the future of our domain-focused business.

Main responsibilities:

Leadership & Team Culture

• Provide technical and disciplinary guidance to a committed platform and support team.
• Encourage engagement, growth, and accountability through regular feedback and goal-setting.
• Promote a mindset of continuous improvement throughout all processes.

Operations & Automation

• Ensure stable, secure, and high-performing operations across various Unix/Linux-based systems.
• Refine provisioning and configuration processes (e.g., Ansible) to boost efficiency and minimize manual interventions.
• Manage and scale Kubernetes clusters, and coordinate with open-source tools like Kafka to balance stability, cost, and performance.

Database Administration & Innovation

• Monitor and optimize databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra), including performance tuning, backups, and failover strategies.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and solutions to improve performance, availability, and scalability within an open-source ecosystem.

On-Call Coordination & Incident Response

• Design an effective on-call model to guarantee around-the-clock coverage.
• Act as the escalation point for critical incidents, leading swift mitigation in close collaboration with external partners or customers.
• Establish clear responsibilities and communication paths for rapid issue resolution.

Strategic Collaboration

• Work closely with cross-functional teams (DevOps, Product Management, Leadership) to align platform operations with core business objectives.
• Provide regular updates on system performance, project milestones, and resource requirements.
• Initiate cross-departmental projects to streamline workflows, encourage innovation, and strengthen collaboration throughout the organisation.

Requirements:

Leadership Experience: Proven track record in guiding or coordinating technical teams.

Technical Expertise: Strong background in Unix/Linux administration, open-source automation tools (e.g., Ansible), Kubernetes, and databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra). Experience with Kafka and similar technologies is highly beneficial.

Problem-Solving Skills: Skilled at diagnosing, prioritizing, and resolving complex operational issues under pressure.

Communication Strength: Able to convey technical topics effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including external partners or customers.

Continuous Learning: A passion for staying up-to-date with evolving open-source technologies and industry best practices.

Tech stack:

Our tech stack is diverse and modern — during your work with us, you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow with technologies such as Debian Linux, SmartOS, Kubernetes, Proxmox, KVM, VMware, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, MySQL, Percona Cluster, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, HAProxy, ProxySQL, Pacemaker, Heartbeat, Keepalived, PowerDNS, Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, OpenVPN, pfSense, and networking components like routing, VLANs, and BGP.

What we offer:

• Access to local/international trainings, development and growth opportunities, including access to e-learning platforms, covering both technical and soft skills areas;
• Modern technologies, product responsibility;
• Flexible work schedule;
• Hybrid work option;
• Medical services package from one of two private providers;
• 25 vacation days per year;
• Substitute days off for public holidays that occur on the weekend;
• Meal tickets;
• Internal referral program;
• Team events, networking events organized to promote a passionate, creative and diverse culture;
• Summerfest and Winterfest parties;
• Of course, coffee, soft drinks and fresh fruits are on us in the office.

Location: Bucharest

About us:

IONOS is the largest cloud hoster in Europe and is setting up the foundation as European Cloud Provider. This includes not just offering storage that can compete with the American hyper-scalers, but that offers the full infrastructure stack, including AI & Machine Learning Products. As the largest hosting company in Europe, we manage more than 8 million customer contracts and host over 12 million domains in our own regional data centers in the US and Europe.

About the team:

The AI & ML Products Development department is responsible for building the platform for ML Services products for IONOS Cloud customers, as well as other companies in the United Internet group.

Our most recent product development features integration of GenerativeAI foundational models, LLMs and others. We run foundational models on prem in our cloud, such as Meta’s Llama, Mistral or StableDiffusion and also VectorDBs and offer them via APIs to our cloud customers.

We are also working with classic ML models for Computer Vision,  NLP), audio/voice  processing & predictions.

Our team is working with technologies such as HugginFace frameworks, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, vLLM, notebooks, MLflow and others.

On the platform side, technologies: GoLang, Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Hibernate, SQL (PostgreSQL and MySQL) and NOSQL (Redis, MongoDB). 

We deploy everything to cloud-native Docker / Kubernetes environments, making use of GitHub + Actions, ArgoCD, Prometheus, and other modern cloud technologies.

You will work together with a creative and innovative group of people that love experimenting and learning new things. We are an international team that breaks barriers and solves real customer and business problems.

Main responsibilities:

Would you like to join the AI Technology team at IONOS (1&1 Internet), Europe’s leading cloud and web hosting provider? We are building a platform that provides AI solutions to customers worldwide, from GenAI / LLM inference, to model training, vector databases and much more.

We are looking for a Go Developer with Python knowledge to develop our AI Cloud platform, which provides GenAI and Machine Learning Services to customers in IONOS Cloud.

In this role, you will:

• Develop platform components, services and APIs, that integrate AI / ML services into our cloud products stack;
• Drive cloud-native implementation as part of a cross-functional team responsible for building our AI / ML platform that will provide AI-based products to our cloud customers, as well as internal clients and IONOS Group brands;
• Take part in all phases of development, maintenance and housekeeping of the platform;
• Work closely with Product Owners, Architects to define the best technical solutions that match our product vision;
• Collaborate with an international organization of software developers and AI enthusiasts.

We appreciate:

• Strong programming language in GO / Python, preferably more than one, and ecosystem knowledge with a 4+ years experience, or 7+ years for Senior level;
• Experience with cloud-native environments such as Docker, Kubernetes;
• Very good command of software design patterns and architectural concepts;
• Experience with building RESTful services;
• Ability to take on technical concepts and deliver solution for project initiatives;
• Microservice oriented architecture, performance and scalability concerns;
• Very good OOP and OOD experience;
• Experience with build tools and versioning systems, such as Git/GitHub/Gitlab, Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD or similar;
• Good written and verbal English skills. 

Would be a plus:

• Product-oriented development mindset and a responsible ownership attitude towards software components;
• Previous experience integration AI / ML related solutions;
• Strong understanding of systems resilience, concurrency, and scalability concerns;
• Full-stack development skills are appreciated;
• Knowledge of Machine Learning technologies, working with data and ML models;
• Openness to take new approaches, learn new concepts and technologies;
• An open collaboration approach and transparent communication.

What we offer:

• Access to local/international trainings, development and growth opportunities, including access to e-learning platforms, covering both technical and soft skills areas;
• Modern technologies, product responsibility;
• Flexible work schedule;
• Hybrid work option;
• Medical services package from one of two private providers;
• 25 vacation days per year;
• Substitute days off for public holidays that occur on the weekend;
• Meal tickets;
• Internal referral program;
• Employee anniversary program;
• Team events, networking events organized to promote a passionate, creative and diverse culture;
• Summerfest and Winterfest parties;
• Of course, coffee, soft drinks and fresh fruits are on us in the office.

About us

We're an independent European digital product studio with a strong track record of delivering market-defining strategies and products for enterprises and governments. With about 200 talented people across three countries, premium AI capabilities and a diverse portfolio of international clients, we define, design and ship high-quality digital products, strategies and software. From global cloud-based platforms and large-scale apps to medical devices, banking software and augmented reality experiences. In a nutshell: if it lives and breathes digital, it’s what we do best.

Become a part of our team

At In The Pocket, you join a multidisciplinary team of designers, engineers, strategists and data specialists who care about the work as much as the people they work with. We work in small, autonomous teams that stay close to our clients and their users, and we give everyone the space to take ownership, speak up and grow. You’ll learn from colleagues across our studios, ship products that reach thousands or even millions of people and help shape what digital can do for leading organisations in Europe.

What you’ll do 

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend services that power our applications. You will work closely with frontend engineers, DevOps professionals, and cloud architects to ensure a seamless and efficient development process. You should also be a strong technical mentor, supporting and guiding colleagues to help the team grow.

• Design, develop, and implement backend APIs using secure and efficient programming languages and frameworks.
• Migrate and manage cloud infrastructure on platforms like AWS.
• Automate backend deployments and infrastructure provisioning using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Optimize cloud resource utilization for cost-effectiveness and scalability.
• Implement robust security measures to protect applications and data in the cloud (OWASP).
• Troubleshoot and debug complex backend issues.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and innovations in cloud technologies.
• Effectively integrate AI tools (e.g., Copilot, ChatGPT) into the development workflow to enhance code writing, code reviews, and overall productivity.
• Act as a mentor for colleagues, providing guidance, support, and knowledge sharing to help the team grow.

Who you are 

• Excellent knowledge of TypeScript (5+ years of experience).
• Proven experience working with cloud platforms like AWS.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good knowledge of authentication technologies, including OAuth, OpenID Connect, and SAML.
• Strong knowledge of database technologies, both relational and NoSQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Good understanding of messaging and broker systems (Pub/Sub, RabbitMQ, Kafka, SNS, SQS).
• Solid understanding of security concepts and best practices (OWASP).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, including infrastructure-as-code, observability, and CI/CD.
• Good understanding of quality engineering practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Passion for building high-quality, scalable, and secure software.
• Advanced use of AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) to accelerate software delivery, refine algorithmic solutions, and critically validate AI-generated output.
• Knowledge of Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is an asset.

What we offer  

Joining In The Pocket means becoming part of a team that shapes the future of our clients’ businesses across Europe. Here’s what you can look forward to:

• You’ll start with a permanent contract in a role that comes with responsibility and the opportunity to make a real impact from day one.
• We offer a competitive salary that reflects your experience and the value you bring.
• Our benefits package has you covered with medical insurance, meal vouchers, and more.
• You’ll have a mobility budget that lets you decide how to get around, your way. 
• Life at In The Pocket isn’t just about work, we host team events throughout the year to celebrate, connect, and have fun together.
• Learning never stops here, so after six months, you’ll receive a dedicated learning and development budget to keep growing your skills and exploring new horizons.

Java Backend Engineer

Hybrid, Bucharest, Romania

JOB OVERVIEW

The Legion application is a high-performance data-driven Java enterprise application that implements sophisticated scheduling and optimization algorithms. It also provides the necessary endpoints for our Web and mobile frontend applications. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a member of the team responsible for the implementation and evolution of this application. You will need to be able to write secure, efficient, enterprise-quality Java code, and have a deep understanding of the techniques and technologies that are necessary for scalability and performance. You will also need knowledge and experience with data modeling and relational databases. Our application runs on AWS, so experience with containerization and cloud deployments is desirable. We're using Springboot, Hibernate, MySQL, and JSON, so familiarity with these technologies will be helpful. Frontend experience in JavaScript and Angular and/or React is a big plus.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Develop features with high quality and on-time
• Thorough understanding of product area 
• Assist with feature design along with CTO/Architect
• Develop features keeping in mind best coding practices including performance and user experience
• Own product quality
• Test features before asking QA engineers to test
• Write unit tests
• Work with QA engineers to test the product end-to-end
• Fix incoming bugs daily: Adhere to bug resolution goals and SLA
• Be able to demo the Legion product end-to-end
• Devise robust solutions that enable product engineering teams to rapidly deliver features in a scalable and performant manner
• Design, build, and support applications from End to End.
• Make data-driven technical decisions
• Use your deep technical knowledge to debug and solve complex technical problems
• Identify and resolve ambiguities in requirements in consultation with the various stakeholders
• Contribute to the long-term team charter and quarterly planning
• Mentor others on the team, and hold a high bar for code quality and standards by conducting design reviews, code reviews, and providing feedback
• Work with QA team to make the feature as Production ready.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• Strong individual contributor with the ability to research
• 3-5 years with backend technologies (Java, Spring Boot, MySQL)
• 3-5 years working on building multi-tenant SaaS applications
• 3-5 years experience with designing and building APIs
• 3+ years delivering software in a cloud-based environment (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Professional software development experience
• Proficiency in Java or C++, and object-oriented design skills
• Application architecture and design patterns
• Experience serving as technical lead throughout the full software development lifecycle, from conception, architecture definition, detailed design, scoping, planning, implementation, and testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance is preferred
• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Experience in the development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications
• Proven ability to lead projects from inception to production
• Strong mastery in communication skills, software architecture design, writing technical documents
• Strong personal work ethic focused on prioritization, being action-oriented, and being driven to achieve positive results

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES

• Proactive and able to command respect through intelligence, hard work, and persistence
• Personal passion and fervor for industry-leading next-generation technology
• Ability to operate in an environment with limited resources
• A great communicator who can distill powerful messages that resonate with customers 
• Track record of building positive relationships with peers 
• Continuous and thoughtful listener, able to learn from others and leverage input
• Strong personal work ethic focused on high-priority issues; action and results-oriented
• Unquestionable integrity, credibility, and character; demonstrated high moral and ethical behavior
• Proficiency with AWS products and services
• Experience in managing frameworks/systems for ensuring code quality such as Coverity, SonarQub, etc.

ABOUT LEGION

Join Legion's mission to turn hourly jobs into good jobs. We're a mission-driven team seeking exceptional talent to propel this vision. Embrace a culture that's collaborative, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial. With us, you'll grow your skills, work closely with experienced executives, and contribute significantly to our mission. Our award-winning AI-native workforce management platform is intelligent, automated, and employee-centric and proven to deliver 13x ROI. We help labor-intensive organizations maximize labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. Legion has earned recognition for its innovation, including spots on the Inc. 5000 list, Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, and awards for our AI technology. Backed by leading investors such as Norwest Venture Partners, Stripes, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures, we're making real change. If you're ready to make an impact and grow your career, Legion is where you belong. Join us in making hourly work rewarding and fulfilling.

BACKGROUND AND OPPORTUNITY

There are almost 75 million hourly workers in the United States, representing more than half of the entire workforce. Historically, managing hourly employees has been difficult due to high attrition (average of 60%) and high replacement costs (average of $3,200 per employee in retail). The ongoing labor shortage and competition from the gig economy, make it more difficult to attract and retain hourly employees. The top reasons hourly employees leave their jobs are a lack of schedule empowerment, poor communication with employers, and an inability to get paid early. Gen Z and the millennial workforce demand gig-like flexibility, modern technology, and compelling work options. Legion’s mission is to turn hourly jobs into good jobs, serving the hourly workers who make up the majority of the US workforce. We believe in empowering employees and helping employers be efficient and innovative by enabling intelligent automation powered by Legion’s Workforce Management platform to optimize labor efficiency and enhance the employee experience simultaneously. 

Legion WFM was built for the cloud with AI at the core and is designed to handle the complexity of modern businesses and meet the needs of today’s hourly employees. Our team is composed of dedicated individuals from all backgrounds and experiences, globally distributed across all time zones. For more information, visit https://legion.co 

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

At Legion, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. As a hybrid employer in Bucharest, Romania, pay for positions is determined using local, national, and industry-specific survey data. We strive to make competitive offers allowing employees room for future growth. Salaries will be based on the applicant’s location, level of experience, education, and specialized knowledge and skills. Additionally, we consider the external market rate, the amount we have budgeted internally, and internal equity within the company for the same position. 

Benefits include, but are not limited to: 

• Health Benefits
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Meal Vouchers

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Legion Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.

DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION

For individuals with disabilities who need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email recruiting@legion.co 

Senior Production Engineer

Hybrid, Bucharest, Romania

JOB OVERVIEW

Are you passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and reliability engineering? As a Senior Production Engineer (SRE) at Legion, you will build and operate a secure, highly scalable, and cost-effective AWS/Kubernetes-based cloud platform. You will work across infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and production reliability. Simply put, the SRE team ensures Legion’s platform is reliable, scalable, and continuously improving for our customers.

This role includes participation in an on-call rotation.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Support and operate Legion’s AWS-based cloud platform and Kubernetes (EKS) environments.
• Leverage GenAI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, or similar) to accelerate infrastructure development, automation, and auto-remediation of common production issues.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform.
• Develop automation and internal tooling using Go or Python.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines to increase deployment safety and velocity.
• Define and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability systems.
• Respond to production incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and implement systemic improvements.
• Develop and automate operational runbooks and remediation workflows.
• Support production deployments, including during off-hours as needed.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• 5-8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or SaaS production operations.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS.
• 5+ years of experience with observability tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK stack, Prometheus, or similar.
• 3+ years experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code practices, including managing complex multi-region deployments with module based configurations.
• 3+ years of experience with containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred); familiarity with Helm.
• Proficiency in Go or Python (or similar programming language).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems (Git-based workflows, Argo, Jenkins or similar).
• Strong Linux/Unix systems experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES

• Experience managing AWS RDS and/or Aurora MySQL including slow query analysis, replication, and upgrade operations.
• Experience implementing SLIs/SLOs and reliability best practices.
• Experience working effectively with remote, distributed teams.
• Experience with supporting SOC 2 / ISO 27001 audits.

AWS certification preferred.

ABOUT LEGION

Join Legion's mission to turn hourly jobs into good jobs. We're a mission-driven team seeking exceptional talent to propel this vision. Embrace a culture that's collaborative, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial. With us, you'll grow your skills, work closely with experienced executives, and contribute significantly to our mission. Our award-winning AI-native workforce management platform is intelligent, automated, and employee-centric and proven to deliver 13x ROI. We help labor-intensive organizations maximize labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. Legion has earned recognition for its innovation, including spots on the Inc. 5000 list, Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, and awards for our AI technology. Backed by leading investors such as Norwest Venture Partners, Stripes, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures, we're making real change. If you're ready to make an impact and grow your career, Legion is where you belong. Join us in making hourly work rewarding and fulfilling.

BACKGROUND AND OPPORTUNITY

There are almost 75 million hourly workers in the United States, representing more than half of the entire workforce. Historically, managing hourly employees has been difficult due to high attrition (average of 60%) and high replacement costs (average of $3,200 per employee in retail). The ongoing labor shortage and competition from the gig economy, make it more difficult to attract and retain hourly employees. The top reasons hourly employees leave their jobs are a lack of schedule empowerment, poor communication with employers, and an inability to get paid early. Gen Z and the millennial workforce demand gig-like flexibility, modern technology, and compelling work options. Legion’s mission is to turn hourly jobs into good jobs, serving the hourly workers who make up the majority of the US workforce. We believe in empowering employees and helping employers be efficient and innovative by enabling intelligent automation powered by Legion’s Workforce Management platform to optimize labor efficiency and enhance the employee experience simultaneously. 

Legion WFM was built for the cloud with AI at the core and is designed to handle the complexity of modern businesses and meet the needs of today’s hourly employees. Our team is composed of dedicated individuals from all backgrounds and experiences, globally distributed across all time zones.

For more information, visit https://legion.co 

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

At Legion, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. As a hybrid employer in Bucharest, Romania, pay for positions is determined using local, national, and industry-specific survey data. 

We strive to make competitive offers allowing employees room for future growth. Salaries will be based on the applicant’s location, level of experience, education, and specialized knowledge and skills. Additionally, we consider the external market rate, the amount we have budgeted internally, and internal equity within the company for the same position. 

Benefits include, but are not limited to: 

• Health Benefits
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Meal Vouchers

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Legion Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.

DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION

For individuals with disabilities who need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email recruiting@legion.co 

Java Backend Engineer

Hybrid, Bucharest, Romania

JOB OVERVIEW

The Legion application is a high-performance data-driven Java enterprise application that implements sophisticated scheduling and optimization algorithms. It also provides the necessary endpoints for our Web and mobile frontend applications. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a member of the team responsible for the implementation and evolution of this application. You will need to be able to write secure, efficient, enterprise-quality Java code, and have a deep understanding of the techniques and technologies that are necessary for scalability and performance. You will also need knowledge and experience with data modeling and relational databases. Our application runs on AWS, so experience with containerization and cloud deployments is desirable. We're using Springboot, Hibernate, MySQL, and JSON, so familiarity with these technologies will be helpful. Frontend experience in JavaScript and Angular and/or React is a big plus.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Design and implement: Build scalable, high-performance, and secure features for our Time & Attendance engine, including time-tracking, scheduling rules, overtime logic, and labor compliance calculations.
• Leverage AI tooling daily: Use AI coding assistants and LLM-powered tools throughout your workflow — code generation, test scaffolding, code review acceleration, documentation, and debugging — and share learnings with your team.
• Own quality: Write comprehensive unit tests, integration tests, and collaborate on automated test suites. AI-generated code still needs rigorous human review and validation.
• Drive technical decisions: Participate actively in architecture discussions, propose solutions, and document trade-offs with clarity.
• Mentor and review: Give substantive code reviews, pair with junior engineers, and model best practices including responsible AI-assisted development.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Product Management, UX, and QA to translate business requirements into robust technical specifications and BDD scenarios.
• Troubleshoot production issues: Diagnose and resolve complex bugs in distributed, high-volume environments with urgency and care.
• Continuously improve: Identify and drive performance, scalability, and reliability improvements across the platform.
• Uphold security standards: Participate in security reviews and ensure implementations comply with industry standards and internal policies.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience: 5-10+ years of professional software development with deep expertise in Java (or C++) in enterprise or SaaS environments.
• AI tooling proficiency: Demonstrated, habitual use of AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Tabnine) in daily development - you should be able to describe specific workflows where AI tooling materially changed how you work.
• Backend depth: Strong command of Spring Boot, REST API design, Hibernate/JPA, and relational databases (MySQL or equivalent), including query optimization and indexing strategies.
• Distributed systems: Solid understanding of microservices architecture, asynchronous patterns, and high-volume transaction handling.
• Cloud & containerization: Hands-on experience with AWS and containerized deployments (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Software craftsmanship: Deep familiarity with coding standards, code review practices, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps principles.
• Testing discipline: Proven ability to write and maintain unit tests, integration tests, and automated test suites - including for AI-generated code.
• Problem-solving: Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and debug complex, multi-layered systems independently.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to document technical decisions clearly for both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND ATTRIBUTES

• AI-native workflow: You've gone beyond autocomplete — you use AI for architecture brainstorming, test generation, spec drafting, PR summaries, and are actively experimenting with agentic coding tools.
• Workforce management or HCM domain experience: Familiarity with time-and-attendance, payroll, scheduling, or labor compliance systems is a significant advantage.
• Frontend exposure: Working knowledge of JavaScript and either Angular or React.
• Leadership track record: Experience informally leading feature teams, running design reviews, or serving as a technical point of contact for a product area.
• Performance engineering: Prior work on query optimization, caching strategies, or throughput/latency improvements in high-volume applications.
• Agile fluency: Comfortable operating in fast-paced sprint cycles with evolving requirements.
• Integrity and judgment: Demonstrated ethical behavior and sound judgment, including when evaluating AI-generated outputs for correctness, bias, and security implications.

In your interviews, we'll ask you to describe:

• Which AI coding tools you use and how frequently.
• A specific example where an AI tool helped you design, refactor, or debug something non-trivially.
• How you validate and review AI-generated code to catch errors, security issues, or performance problems.
• Your view on the limits of current AI coding assistants and where human judgment remains essential.

We are not looking for performative AI enthusiasm. We are looking for engineers who have genuinely integrated these tools into their craft and can think critically about their strengths and failure modes.

ABOUT LEGION

Join Legion's mission to turn hourly jobs into good jobs. We're a mission-driven team seeking exceptional talent to propel this vision. Embrace a culture that's collaborative, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial. With us, you'll grow your skills, work closely with experienced executives, and contribute significantly to our mission. Our award-winning AI-native workforce management platform is intelligent, automated, and employee-centric and proven to deliver 13x ROI. We help labor-intensive organizations maximize labor efficiency and employee engagement simultaneously. Legion has earned recognition for its innovation, including spots on the Inc. 5000 list, Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, and awards for our AI technology. Backed by leading investors such as Norwest Venture Partners, Stripes, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures, we're making real change. If you're ready to make an impact and grow your career, Legion is where you belong. Join us in making hourly work rewarding and fulfilling.

BACKGROUND AND OPPORTUNITY

There are almost 75 million hourly workers in the United States, representing more than half of the entire workforce. Historically, managing hourly employees has been difficult due to high attrition (average of 60%) and high replacement costs (average of $3,200 per employee in retail). The ongoing labor shortage and competition from the gig economy, make it more difficult to attract and retain hourly employees. The top reasons hourly employees leave their jobs are a lack of schedule empowerment, poor communication with employers, and an inability to get paid early. Gen Z and the millennial workforce demand gig-like flexibility, modern technology, and compelling work options. Legion’s mission is to turn hourly jobs into good jobs, serving the hourly workers who make up the majority of the US workforce. We believe in empowering employees and helping employers be efficient and innovative by enabling intelligent automation powered by Legion’s Workforce Management platform to optimize labor efficiency and enhance the employee experience simultaneously. 

Legion WFM was built for the cloud with AI at the core and is designed to handle the complexity of modern businesses and meet the needs of today’s hourly employees. Our team is composed of dedicated individuals from all backgrounds and experiences, globally distributed across all time zones. For more information, visit https://legion.co 

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

At Legion, we offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. As a hybrid employer in Bucharest, Romania, pay for positions is determined using local, national, and industry-specific survey data. We strive to make competitive offers allowing employees room for future growth. Salaries will be based on the applicant’s location, level of experience, education, and specialized knowledge and skills. Additionally, we consider the external market rate, the amount we have budgeted internally, and internal equity within the company for the same position. 

Benefits include, but are not limited to: 

• Health Benefits
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Equity
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement
• Meal Vouchers

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

Legion Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.

DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION

For individuals with disabilities who need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email recruiting@legion.co