Lead Java Software Developer

Luxoft Poland; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 240,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft Poland is partnering with a client in the banking and capital markets space to build a centralized, in-house sales and trading platform. The goal is to create a one-stop experience across three business lines, with aligned back-end workflows and infrastructure.

The team designs and develops scalable Java-based applications, leads tasks, and collaborates with cross-functional groups to deliver new features, review code, and document designs and test plans.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of Java development experience with strong core Java skills.
• At least 5 years in a team lead/technical lead role.
• Experience clarifying technical requirements and assigning team tasks.
• Proven experience with databases and service integration.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based applications and services.
• Allocate tasks and prioritize work within the team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and ship features.
• Troubleshoot issues in development and test environments.
• Review code and contribute to testing best practices.
• Document technical designs, test plans, and procedures.

Skills

Java development

Team leadership

Requirements clarification

Task assignment

Concurrency concepts

Distributed systems

Data structures & algorithms

Code reviews

Tools

REST

gRPC

MQ

Kafka

Github Copilot

Databases

Job description

Our client in banking and capital markets industry is building a centralized platform for its sales and trading business vertical.

A critical challenge is the client experience, where clients face off with three separate businesses, rather than a one-stop-shop. This experience is mirrored on the back-end with three separate workflows and infrastructures across products.

We are a team that engage in development of a centralized, in-house driven sales and trading platform, engaging with IT and control functions in support of rollout across all trading business.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable Java-based applications and services.
• Task allocation and work prioritization among team
• Application architecture planning and design
• Responsibility for business and technical aspects of application development
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development and test environments.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices in software development and testing.
• Document technical designs, test plans, and procedures.
• Proactively ask the right questions to clarify requirements
• Capable of designing solutions before moving into the implementation phase
• Provide technical support to less senior team members

Must have

• Proven experience of minimum 8 years with Java development and strong core Java development skills
• Prior experience of minimum 5 years as team lead/technical lead
• Experience with clarification of technical requirements
• Experience with assigning tasks within the team
• Proven experience with data bases
• Service integration (REST, grpc, MQ, Kafka)
• Proven knowledge of computer science concepts including concurrency, algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Github Copilot

Nice to have

• Knowledge of fixed income and trading domains of investment banking business
• Memory management
• Multithreaded and high performance development
• Concurrent programming and zero lock execution