Senior API Engineer (Freelance)

About PVH Corp.
PVH is one of the most admired fashion and lifestyle companies in the world. We power brands that drive fashion forward - for good. Our brand portfolio includes the iconic CALVIN KLEIN and TOMMY HILFIGER brands. We market a variety of goods under these and other nationally and internationally known owned and licensed brands. PVH has over 40,000 associates operating in over 40 countries and $9.9 billion in annual revenues. That's the Power of Us. That's the Power of PVH.

The Team
You will work closely with other IT teams; incl. INFRA, Network Services & Monitoring Teams, as well as SCPD - Product & Pricing; the business team supporting production and sourcing processes. The Product Technology team's responsibilities span further than only PLM system, since our system's architecture around the production process is wide and complex. You will work close to other teams and systems they cover, and there will be shared responsibilities giving you a chance to grow more knowledge or apply existing experience in broader context.

The Position 
As a Senior API Engineer you will be part of the Product Technology team responsible for several production systems including Centric PLM; the backbone/core system for all our product development and starting point for our sourcing processes. You will work closely with other IT teams; incl. INFRA, Network Services & Monitoring Teams, as well as SCPD- Product & Pricing; the business team supporting production and sourcing processes. The Product Technology team's responsibilities span further than only PLM system, since our system's architecture around the production process is wide and complex. You will work close to other teams and systems they cover, and there will be shared responsibilities giving you a chance to grow more knowledge or apply existing experience in broader context. One of the main assignments will be PLM API Framework implementation. 

Key Responsibilities:

By being part of DevOps team your responsibilities will b

• Working in Agile and DevOps way
• Owning full life cycle from idea, design, development and support
• Responsible for quality, security and maintainability of delivered end product
• Owning monitoring of end product 
• Responsible for performance of delivered produc
• Delivering work with automation first mind-set
   

The Ideal Candidate:

• Strong communication skills
• Experience with Scrum and Agile, working in a multi-disciplinary team in collaboration with multiple teams
• Is inspiring and exudes energy and passion 
• Has a keen IT market focus 
• Is focused on collaboration 
• The courage to be accountable for the results of your decisions 
• Actively seeks help and feedback, but is not afraid to give feedback either. 
• Is curious and always looks out for innovation opportunities in his/her focus area
• Great Written and verbal communications in English 
• Self-learning, independent problem-solving skills
• Passionate about developer tooling, improving developer experience/workflow 

Experience And Specialised Knowledge

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Working experience in developing API's, Web applications and integrations with different systems
• Working experience in developing software in Java 
• Working experience with frameworks like Quarkus, Spring, SpringBoot, Micronaut or Vert.x
• Good knowledge and understanding of REST
• Good knowledge and understand of JSON, Python
• Experience in building Microservices
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps way of working
• Experience with Docker
• Working experience of working with non-technical people
• Working experience with integrations to different systems
• Terraform
• Experience with Kafka 
• Experience with Kong 
   

Nice to have

• Working experience in AWS or other Cloud providers is a plus
• Knowledge of GraphQL is a plus
• Experience with BDD/TDD is a plus
• Experience with ELK stack is a plus
• Experience with Couchbase is a plus
• Knowledge of gRPC is a plus
   

What You Can Expect from Us: 

• An international environment which respects diversity, equality, and individuality 
• A smart work program that empowers our associates to work from home in the Netherlands, within a flexible schedule 
• A beautiful state-of-the-art Campus awaiting you upon our return to the office