Who we are

Blankfactor is a global service provider. We offer mission-critical full-stack development, management, and consulting services to supplement our clients' teams or manage end-to-end delivery of custom software solutions. Headquartered in the United States, we have offices in Romania, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, and Canada. Our culture anchors on expertise, excellence, and care for our talent and our clients.

We only hire the best and brightest. If you have talent and ambition, join us and be part of an environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and growth. Welcome to Blankfactor!
 

What to expect in this role

Our client is an international leader, the biggest in the world, in payments processing technology servicing all types of businesses – big and small, online and traditional retail outlets.

The company’s financial products include credit cards, ATM processing, merchant services, rewards and fraud prevention.

They specialize in delivering online payment services to our customers and we are looking for Engineers to join our team to take it to the next level. They are unique in the world and put us firmly beyond what the competition can deliver.

Operating within a collaborative Agile environment, we aim to deliver effective solutions to the business and our customers using our evolving payment platform.

Application teams will supply requirements and artefacts. You’ ll help the solution move through various environments by troubleshooting and fixing issues, creating and deploying engineering artefacts using Ansible, Terraform and Helm as appropriate to ensure consistency of delivery.

You’ll need to meet with application teams to accurately determine their requirements and meet those using the range of technologies within the platform; while ensuring that we meet standards on operational items like HA & DR, monitoring; and that security aspects are all considered to ensure compliance with regulations.

You’ll attend agile team planning sessions and provide input on implementation and design aspects.

Qualifications and Tech Proficiency

We cover a wide range of technologies, and know that no one is expert across them all, but a good mix of the following experience will make a strong player in our team:

• Automation frameworks and configuration management - Ansible first, but Terraform and Helm are useful; Bash scripting and Python is a bonus.

• Linux, and to a lesser extent Windows Server

• Good knowledge of network protocols and troubleshooting connectivity: TLS, certificates and authentication.

• Configuration and management of IBM MQ objects, including queues, topics, and channels

• An understanding of IBM MQ cluster design, operation and maintenance

• Knowledge of networking: Load balancing, VLANs, firewalls

• AWS infrastructure services around VPC management, ELB, TGW & Direct Connect; but also knowledge around other AWS services such as EC2, EKS, S3

• Knowledge of Git commands, Kubernetes, Docker and Openshift, container registries and SDN.

What you can expect as a member of the Blankfactor team

• Competitive salary aligning with industry benchmarks

• 25 days paid vacation

• Premium private health insurance coverage

• Sports benefits subscription

• $500 dedicated self-development budget

• Meal tickets

• 25 Lei lunch budget when working from the office

• Friendly office atmosphere

• Diverse client portfolio

• Cutting-edge high-tech stack

• Fintech Expertise: expertise in machine learning, data science, big data, and AI, driving innovation and cutting-edge solutions

• Continuous Learning Culture and Support
   

We believe that diversity of experience and background contributes to more robust ideas and a stronger team. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to religion, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.