Senior Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer

Overview

Connecting clients to markets – and talent to opportunity

With 4,500+ employees and over 300,000 commercial, institutional, payments, and retail clients, we operate from more than 70 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets – focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.

Responsibilities

Primary duties will include:

• Design, implement, maintain and improve components of Global Messaging Technology Platform.

• Perform proof-of-concept for new tools and components.

• Turn Proof of concept work into Production Grade systems.

• Constantly liaise with Data Group and teams which use technologies which we have implemented, deployed to provide necessary support.

• Prioritize various tasks across, manage changes in daily workload.

• Concisely document instructions, user guides and policies in Confluence or in source control.

• Guide fellow engineers on stack standards and efficient utilization.

• This role includes out of office hours support rota.

• Providing support for our US based workloads. This position demands ability to adapt to US time zone work schedule.

Qualifications

To land this role you will need:

• 5+ Years, experience in Engineering and operating on Platform critical to StoneX.

• Working knowledge of a modern Messaging platform and their ecosystems (RH AMQ, ActiveMQ Artemis, IBM MQ, Solace).

• Proven history of implementation, configuration, and support of a modern Streaming platform and their ecosystems (Apache Kafka, Redpanda, Apache Pulsar).

• Expert in designing and tunning K8s based deployments for reliability and scale.

• Proficiency in use of K8s API & CLI and related tooling.

• Adept at infrastructure as-code principle and proficient in one or more Linux based script, networking knowledge, ansible/terraform.

• Working knowledge of one of the high-level programming language like Python, Java will be an added advantage.

• Working knowledge of Linux environment.

• Working knowledge of Azure or similar public cloud service.

• Experience with GIT, CI and CD.

• Willingness to learn and adopt to innovative technologies.

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills. Forward thinking, self-starter, able to work independently.

• University / College bachelor level (or equivalent) degree.

What makes you stand out:  

• Configuration Management / Deployment tools such as Ansible, Octopus.

• Experience with Cloud Providers (preferably Azure).

• GitOps, CI / CD mindset.

• Networking knowledge.

• Kubernetes and Helm Knowledge.

• Ansible / Configuration as a Code.

Environment:

• Hybrid; our Cracow office is located at Mogilska 35 street.

• Parking space for employees.