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Additional Information

What We Offer

• Involvement in a strategic, innovation-focused project with strong business impact
• Exposure to modern technologies and cloud-based architecture
• Cross-border collaboration with teams in CER countries
• A supportive and agile working environment
• Opportunities for growth and development in a fast-paced, high-impact area

What is it like to work at Coface?

This is a hybrid role based in our Bucharest office. We encourage our employees to take care of themselves with things like short Fridays, private healthcare, vouchers – meal, vacation, gift, and more

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Company Description

At Coface, we make trade happen everyday.

Our 5,200 experts representing 80+ nationalities in 58 countries are united by a shared purpose: helping companies navigate through uncertainty by empowering them to make the right decisions and trade smarter in a complex world.

With nearly 80 years of global experience, we offer companies a full range of solutions: Trade Credit Insurance, Business Information, Debt Collection, SingleRisk insurance, Surety Bonds, Factoring — all driven by a unique data patrimony, cutting-edge technology, innovation and a deep understanding of the global economy.

Joining Coface means being part of a close-knit international organization, where your ideas matter. We foster a culture of learning, collaboration and inclusion where you are given responsibilities and can see the impact of your actions.

Shape the future of trade with us. Join our Happeners!

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Job Description

DELIVERY OWNERSHIP

• Own squad delivery, including planning, estimation, risk and issue management, stakeholder engagement, releases, operations, and ongoing product maintenance.
• Align the product roadmap, technical runway, and available capacity.
• Set realistic commitments, anticipate risks and dependencies, remove blockers and drive recovery actions.
• Ensure every release is secure, tested, supportable and operationally ready; escalate early with options.
• Communicate with key stockholders about deliveries, issues and risks. Be a leader within the transformation program (called Everest), highlight dependencies and tackle them when necessary.

FUNCTIONAL AND TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP

• Work with Product Owners, analysts and architects to clarify needs, challenge gaps and shape deliverable requirements.
• Understand business processes, existing applications, code, data flows and integrations to define pragmatic designs and transition paths.
• Guide architecture and implementation choices, including non-functional requirements, observability and technical debt trade-offs.
• Conduct peer reviews to improve quality and help engineers develop.
• Explore relevant technologies, share findings, and build support among peers.

ENGINEERING QUALITY AND OPERATIONS

• Oversee design and code reviews, CI/CD quality gates, secure-by-design practices and a robust Definition of Done.
• Drive durable resolution of complex incidents through root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Maintain clear architecture decisions and prioritise technical debt based on value, risk, and capacity.

TEAM AND LOCAL LEADERSHIP

• Lead developers day to day, mentor engineers and strengthen knowledge sharing across the BDC community.
• Use Agile practices to improve flow and decision-making, and participate in SAFe ceremonies with other delivery teams.
• Protect delivery focus, coordinate distributed contributors and represent BI Technology locally in Romania.
• Build strong KPI to track progress (Velocity, predictability, software quality, production stability, production defect reduction)
• Grow your talents – as a manager hire key talents which will complement your team, coach and nurture team members

Qualifications

You combine the judgement of a senior engineer with the ownership mindset of a delivery leader.

• 8+ years in software engineering, solution architecture, technical leadership or technology delivery.
• Proven ownership of complex digital products or platforms and experience leading distributed, cross-functional teams.
• Strong Java / Angular full-stack understanding across applications, APIs, integration, data, infrastructure, security and front-end concerns.
• Experience modernizing legacy platforms through phased migration or coexistence strategies.
• Practical knowledge of API-led and event-driven integration, data-intensive applications, CI/CD, containers and cloud or hybrid environments.
• Strong appetite and interest for Business Information functionally. A strong analytical capability to dig into business processes and data.
• Ability to manage delivery risk, quality gates and production readiness in a regulated environment.
• Fluent English and confidence communicating with engineering, business and executive stakeholders.
• You will participate in the Engineering platform committee. We expect you to influence the technical decisions of the department and be a leader in defining the company's tech strategy.

TECHNICAL LANDSCAPE

• Architecture: REST or gRPC APIs, microservices, event-driven patterns, integration, orchestration, UML and C4.
• Engineering: GitLab CI, Jenkins or equivalent; Docker, Kubernetes, Helm; API gateways; cloud and infrastructure fundamentals, Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Data and AI: Data pipelines, governance and data-centric designs; AI/ML and agentic workloads are an advantage.
• Reliability: Observability, performance, resilience, threat modelling, Zero Trust and secure software delivery.
• Delivery: Jira, Azure DevOps or equivalent; Confluence; dashboards and delivery reporting tools.
• Languages: Java, Python
• OS: Linux, Windows