Senior Java Engineer Offline

N-iX is seeking a Senior Java Engineer to join our vibrant team. 

About the project:

Our client is a global marketplace for savings and investments, providing savers with effortless access to high-yield savings accounts and investment options from over 400 partner banks worldwide. It eliminates geographic limitations, ensuring transparency, convenience, and competitive rates. For banks, it offers cost-efficient deposit funding and innovative Banking-as-a-Service solutions.

There are two teams responsible for processing all the platform: account creations, payments execution and reconciliations, and transaction compliance.
Each team is a cross-functional team currently with BE (Java) and FE (React) engineers; 5-6 developers per team. The team owns the whole lifecycle from design and development through maintenance of the services at runtime. This includes modern and legacy services, while the team works dedicated to replacing the legacy services.

Must-Have Skills & Technologies

Experience:
Minimum 5+ years as a Java Software Engineer, with experience in managing software projects through the full lifecycle — from design to runtime support.

Technical Stack:

• Languages & Frameworks: Java 17 (migrating to Java 21), Spring Boot 3
• Databases: MySQL 8, SQL, and NoSQL solutions
• Architecture & Infrastructure: Microservices architecture, event-driven systems using Kafka and ActiveMQ
• Cloud & DevOps: AWS Services, Kubernetes (K8s), CI/CD pipelines
• Versioning & Documentation: Strong code review skills, technical documentation ownership, and technical debt management

Software Engineering Practices:

• Strong knowledge of OOP and SOLID principles
• Familiarity with modern software development practices and standards
• Proactive involvement in standard-setting, guidelines creation, and best practices within the team
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Ownership & Collaboration:

• Experience of End-to-end responsibility for project delivery
• Willingness to replace legacy services and improve technical foundations
• Comfortable with architecture discussions and proposing alternative solutions

Soft Skills:

• Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in an international team
• Respectful, constructive feedback during code reviews
• Ownership mindset, quality-driven development
• Fluent in English (Upper-Intermediate or higher)
• Ukrainian language, Advanced or higher.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance a large-scale online banking platform.
• Perform the software engineer tasks with great attention to quality, and support other engineers in your team to do the same.
• Collaborate with the team to set technical standards and share best practices.
• Perform detailed code reviews, ensuring not only best practices and business rules, but also performance, security, impact on other features or projects, and always with respectful and constructive communication.
• Research and shape multiple alternative technical solutions when possible.
• End-to-end ownership of the team project's delivery.
• Actively manage technical documentation and address technical debt.

We offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers