Lead Java Developer

We're looking for a Java Technical Leader for our Client – a firm that truly defies the typical "corporate" label. Our client is the oldest private bank in the US (over 200 years old) and one of the world's leading "banks for banks."

What does this mean for you?

• They are a private partnership.
  You won't find them on the stock market. This means technology is built for long-term stability and quality, not to chase quarterly reports for shareholders.
• The scale is immense.
  You'll be working on premium, enterprise-grade systems that manage assets valued in the
  trillions
  of dollars for the world's largest investment funds. This is a high-stakes environment where reliability and engineering excellence are paramount.
• Krakow is a strategic hub.
  This isn't a typical shared service center. It's a key technology hub where your team will have a real, global impact on core products.

You will join their
Data Transformation Technology team
, where you'll be responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of business-critical low-code/no-code applications that constitute a business process fabric for many of the company's business teams. This position requires a skilled individual who understands how to effectively inspire a technical team to use available technologies to create a stable platform for business users.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Manage development team, guide and provide training to junior team members.
• Communicate efficiently within and outside the team
• Facilitate architecture discussions and design decisions
• Provide technical leadership on best practices for chosen architecture and technology
• Design and develop distributed computing systems used by internal and external clients
• Conduct code reviews for the team and have well establish standards and practices for the team
• Identify issues and risks and proactively add to the iterative discussion
• Work with business uses to address needs of scalability, testability, security, resiliency
• Foster automation and support building CI/CD pipelines
• Conduct technical research and provide recommendation as required, altering the recommended technology stack for the department and ensuring it's up to date with latest industry standards
• Develop employees by providing training, mentoring, appropriately challenging assignments and assistance with career planning.
• Assist in the hiring process of qualified personnel

Desired Qualifications:

• BS degree in Technology and/or equivalent work experience
• Minimum of 9 years of professional experience as a software engineer, in back-end or full-stack capacity
• Minimum of 2 years in a technology lead position, being responsible for the system design and architecture or application delivery
• Strong technology background, hands-on experience in development
• Comfortable with Agile operating models
• Excellent Communication skills, fluent English
• Proven track record in designing large scale distributed systems with Java technologies
• Experience with test and build automation using CI/CD pipelines
• In-depth understanding the concepts of databases, popular Web frameworks, Enterprise Integrations concepts (queue, pub-sub, REST API)
• Experience with microservice architecture
• Core technical skill set include Java, Spring, SQL, Hibernate, Kafka
• Exposure to reactive front-end technologies like Angular is a plus
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, knowledge of OpenShift (Docker, Kubernetes)

What we offer:

• Hybrid model 3 days per week in the office /2 days for a parent of a child up to 4 years
• Culture Celebration Day and 1 Community Service Day in addition to their paid standard vacation allowance
• Private medical care
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program - offering independent and confidential counselling services for you and your family. You can get support for topics including family, marriage and relationships, finances, and legal issues.
• Professional trainings and qualification support
• Wellbeing Program
• Online Social Fund benefit platform
• Social, sport and integration events
• Onboarding Program for new hires