Role Description This is a permanent full time remote opportunity for those based in Italy. As a Senior Engineer at Nearform your main task will be designing & building applications using Golang. However, as you’ll likely work on a variety of projects your responsibilities may also include: - Supporting component design, development and maintenance and taking responsibility for personal technical quality standards within the project team. - Assisting with defining structured practices, especially in source code management, building and deployment. - Designing and implementing data storage solutions. - Optimising performance in applications for maximum speed and scalability. - Getting feedback from users and clients, and building solutions for them. - Assisting with the analysis of client requirements. - Working with and supporting Technical Leaders in project execution and timely delivery. - Collaborating with client teams. Qualifications - Significant experience delivering at a Senior Engineer level. Our Seniors typically have at least 6 years’ commercial experience. - Practical experience of delivering in an agile environment. - Practical experience and knowledge of developing real-world solutions. - Deep knowledge and experience with Golang. - Experience with Next.js. - Strong AI in SDLC skills. - Deep understanding of versioning control tools - e.g. Git. - Testing experience and familiarity with testing tools at all levels, unit, integration and end to end testing. - Practical and real world experience working with databases and cloud environments. - Experience with automation, CI and CD. - Experience building software collaboratively using pull requests and code reviews. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills. - Professional proficiency in English. Benefits - Annual Company Bonus - We all help Nearform to hit company goals so we all receive a share of the profits on an annual basis in line with company performance. - Work Remotely and Flexibly - We have a genuine dedication to work/life balance. Our flexible working culture allows you to work around what matters - school run, no problem! - Paid Time Off Package - We offer an annual leave of 28 days plus public holidays. We also offer sick leave, marriage leave and many more. - Remote Working Allowance - Every 2 years, you will have a budget of up to €1250 to help you set up a comfortable and productive workspace in addition to your essential equipment provided by Nearform when you join. - Training and Development Allowance - We understand the importance of continuously learning so we offer an allowance of up to €1000 you can use to upskill yourself. - Healthcare - Health insurance is provided for under the applicable national collective labor agreement (CCNL) and may be through the Fondo Est or QuAS. - Pension & Insurances - We provide state pension + private pension with a match up to 1.55%, and Death in Service cover for peace of mind. Company Description Nearform is an independent team of data & AI experts, engineers, and designers who build intelligent digital solutions and capability at pace. We create AI-enabled solutions that enhance digital experiences, empower developers, and deliver measurable results. Our deep expertise in solving the world’s most complex digital problems, along with our collaborative, people-first approach, enables enterprises to build breakthrough products and modernise legacy systems by unleashing the power of AI. Today, our team of 500 experts in 20+ countries is trusted by leading enterprises including Lululemon, Puma, Sun Life, Starbucks, Travelex, Virgin Media 02, and Walmart.

• Technical Leadership: Lead project execution by driving RFCs, design docs (HLD/LLD), and execution plans for the product development team, ensuring strict adherence to best practices and standards in engineering. • System Architecture & Scale: Design, build, and maintain highly concurrent, low-latency backend systems capable of processing massive transactional throughput. • Core Engineering & Influence: Influence technical decisions and project direction based on your backend expertise utilizing Ruby on Rails and Go (Golang), but not limited to them. Write clean, performance-optimized, and maintainable code. • Platform & Data Infrastructure: Optimize database performance, query execution tuning, and cache-layer strategies (using PostgreSQL, Redis, etc.) while safeguarding data consistency across microservices. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate effectively with product managers, designers, DevOps, and other engineering squads to deliver seamless integrations and exceptional user experiences. • Technical Mentorship: Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers (SDE-1/2), fostering their professional growth, reviewing complex pull requests, and raising the bar for the engineering culture. • Operational Excellence: Proactively identify and address system bottlenecks, address the root causes of persistent infrastructural issues, and champion automated testing, observability (tracing/metrics), and CI/CD automation. • Strategic Evolution: Identify opportunities for organizational enhancements, propose structural technical alternatives to optimize team execution, and balance short-term feature delivery with long-term architectural stability.

• Design, build, and optimize high-performance backend services • Ensure stability, scalability, and security of our serverless stack • Drive architectural discussions and establish best practices in testing, deployment, and monitoring • Mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence • Collaborate across teams to shape the future of hospitality tech

Role Description Acuity, Inc. seeks a Kong / API Gateway Surge Engineer to support authorized, time-bounded implementation, migration, automation, validation, integration, troubleshooting, and stabilization activities for a large federal Enterprise API Gateway environment. This role provides product-specific surge support for Kong and comparable enterprise API gateway capabilities when additional capacity is needed to support approved target-platform objectives. The Kong / API Gateway Surge Engineer helps accelerate approved gateway implementation, migration waves, developer portal configuration, CI/CD/GitOps touchpoints, observability integration, defect resolution, and knowledge transfer. This role works within approved architecture, security, infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and release processes to deliver documented, validated, and accepted surge outcomes. Responsibilities - Implement, configure, integrate, validate, troubleshoot, and document Kong or comparable enterprise API gateway capabilities for approved surge activities. - Configure gateway services, routes, consumers, plugins, policies, certificates, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, logging, telemetry, and environment promotion patterns. - Support developer portal configuration, API catalog capabilities, API documentation workflows, access request patterns, and self-service onboarding enablement. - Support accelerated API migration wave preparation, gateway configuration, validation evidence, defect resolution, rollback readiness, and dual-run troubleshooting. - Develop and validate EAG-side CI/CD, GitOps, configuration-as-code, and automation touchpoints within approved pipeline and release processes. - Integrate gateway capabilities with approved identity, network, monitoring, logging, incident-management, change-management, and observability processes. - Support AppDynamics, ELK, OpenTelemetry planning, dashboard inputs, log flow validation, telemetry checks, and operational visibility for surge activities. - Troubleshoot surge-related issues involving gateway configuration, plugins, policies, routing, certificates, connectivity, identity integration, telemetry, and migration defects. - Provide technical office hours, knowledge transfer, configuration documentation, surge status inputs, validation evidence, and completion artifacts. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. - 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise API gateway implementation, configuration, automation, migration, integration, or production-readiness activities. - Hands-on experience with Kong, Kong Gateway Enterprise, Kong Konnect, or comparable enterprise API gateway products. - Experience configuring gateway services, routes, consumers, plugins, policies, certificates, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, logging, telemetry, and environment promotion patterns. - Experience supporting developer portal configuration, API catalog capabilities, API documentation, access request workflows, or self-service onboarding enablement. - Experience supporting API migration waves, dual-run operations, validation evidence, defect resolution, rollback readiness, and cutover support. - Experience developing or integrating CI/CD, GitOps, configuration-as-code, reusable automation, or gateway deployment-support artifacts. - Experience with observability integration, including AppDynamics, ELK, OpenTelemetry, dashboards, log flows, telemetry validation, or comparable monitoring tools. - Experience troubleshooting gateway implementation, migration, plugin, policy, routing, certificate, identity, connectivity, or telemetry issues. - Strong written communication skills for surge documentation, configuration evidence, runbooks, status inputs, validation materials, and knowledge transfer. Requirements - Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain U.S. federal suitability. Benefits - Personalized development plans, mentorship, and up to $3,000 annually for training and certifications. - Up to $3,000 for degree-seeking programs. - Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. - Strong focus on work-life balance. - Recognition as one of the best places to work. - Commitment to diversity and inclusion.