Lead Java Software Developer

Luxoft Poland; Wrocław; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft Poland is seeking a Senior Java Lead to drive the design, development, and maintenance of a scalable banking sales and trading platform. The role is hybrid with 1–2 office days in Wrocław, Poland.

You will own architecture, coordinate cross‑functional teams, review code, and mentor juniors while delivering robust services using REST, gRPC, Kafka, and MQ.

Qualifications

• Proven experience of minimum 8 years with Java development and strong core Java development skills.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a team lead/technical lead.
• Experience clarifying technical requirements for projects.
• Experience assigning tasks within a development team.
• Proven experience with databases.
• Service integration experience (REST, gRPC, MQ, Kafka).
• Knowledge of concurrency, algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Github Copilot.

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.

Skills

Java development

Team lead / technical lead

Task allocation

Requirements clarification

Database experience

Service integration

Concurrency & distributed systems

Github Copilot

Job description

Hybrid -> 1/2 days from office per week

Project 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

Mandatory Skills Description

• 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 Skills Description

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