Expert Java Developer and Tech Lead, Safekeeping team

Nordea; Województwo pomorskie; Hybrid; PLN 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Home-office up to 40%

Job summary

Nordea is seeking an experienced Java Developer to join the Safekeeping and Corporate Actions Development team. The role focuses on designing, building and maintaining integration components that connect Safekeeping with other Nordea systems, within a microservices landscape using Kafka, MQ, REST APIs and API Gateway.

The candidate will lead technical decisions, mentor peers, and collaborate with architects to ensure scalable, reliable solutions across a complex trading lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Java development for large-scale systems.
• Hands-on experience with integration components and microservices.
• Strong knowledge of MQ, Kafka, and REST APIs.
• Experience with testing frameworks (JUnit, Testcontainers).
• Familiarity with CI/CD (Bamboo) and version control (Git).
• Ability to mentor and guide team members on best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and enhance integration components for Safekeeping systems.
• Own technical quality, coding standards and architectural improvements.
• Mentor team members in best practices and code reviews.
• Lead architecture decisions with solution/enterprise architects.
• Translate business requirements into technical specs for cross-functional teams.
• Be the technical voice in Scrum ceremonies and drive technical estimates.
• Ensure system reliability with monitoring and incident handling.

Skills

Java

Maven

Spring Boot

Spring Integration

SQL

Oracle

IBM MQ

Kafka

JUnit

Testcontainers

Git

Bamboo

Tools

Git

Bamboo

Job description

Job ID: 5996 Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank, and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy.

Job ID: 5996 Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank, and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy. We are looking for a Java Developer to grow our team developing components powering one of core processes in the trading business - Safekeeping. This is a permanent and full-time position, on-site with home-office opportunity up to 40% of days. Nordea is a place where traditions meet tomorrow. We’re not just a bank; we’re a tech employer on a mission to evolve finance securely and responsibly. Together, we impact millions of people’s daily lives by ensuring they can access our solutions anytime, anywhere, while safeguarding their personal data and wealth. Join us in making an impact on the banking industry.

About Our Team

Meet the Safekeeping and Corporate Actions Development team. Our role is to develop and modernize integrations of our modern Safekeeping & Corporate Action system with the rest of the bank’s IT landscape. The application is a central piece of Nordea’s trading lifecycle and supports corporate actions and safekeeping parts of trade lifecycle. The Safekeeping system is a vendor solution. Our team’s focus is on components and microservices surrounding the Safekeeping solution, which are connected in decoupled way (Kafka, MQ, REST services, API Gateway) with the Safekeeping system and other Nordea systems. Responsibilities for this position include both maintenance and development of multiple integration components. Currently our project contains around 20 microservices and we introduce 1-2 new services each year.

Main responsibilities in this role

• Designing, building and enhancing logic of integration components connecting Safekeeping system with other Nordea systems, as well as supporting components expanding capabilities of the Safekeeping system
• Taking ownership of the overall technical quality of solutions, establishing coding standards, and maintaining a strategic backlog of technical improvements and architectural enhancements
• Mentoring and guiding team members in technical best practices, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
• Leading technical architecture decisions in collaboration with solution and enterprise architects, ensuring scalable and maintainable solutions
• Collaborating with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical specifications and representing technical competence in cross-functional meetings
• Being the technical voice in Scrum ceremonies, driving technical estimates, identifying risks, and proposing innovative solutions to complex integration challenges
• Ensuring system reliability by implementing monitoring, troubleshooting production issues, and establishing incident response procedures

Who You Are

This is the right role for you if you are fluent in Java, SQL, and English; and have at least 12 years’ experience as a software developer in large scale enterprises with demonstrated progression to technical leadership. And you own problems whether you know the solution or not – if the latter, you are not afraid to ask questions and seek answers. Finally, you have a sense of humour and strive in multinational environment.

Your background and skills include

• Java, Maven
• Spring Boot, Spring Integration
• Database (Oracle), SQL
• MQ (IBM MQ), Kafka
• Testing (Junit, Testcontainers)
• Git, CI/CD tool (Bamboo)

What We Offer

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

People

are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture

that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model

– we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion

are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

Submit your application no later than 31/08/2026.