Senior Java Tech Lead — Cloud-Native Microservices (AWS)

EPAM Systems; Województwo pomorskie; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Multisport

Shopping vouchers

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Relocation support

English classes

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks a Senior Java Software Engineer to serve as a Technology Lead for a product team delivering investor-facing solutions for a major global asset management client. You will lead full-stack backend development, microservices, APIs, and data-store design while guiding modernization and cloud-native adoption.

This role requires availability to work from the office 3 times a week in Krakow or Gdansk, and offers a hybrid working model with Poland-wide remote possibilities and growth

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar (Master's degree preferred).
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• 8+ years of experience designing and developing microservices, REST APIs, and front-end applications.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot for backend microservices development.
• Experience with AWS cloud-native services (EC2, S3, Lambda, Kinesis, Firehose, DynamoDB, EKS, CloudWatch).
• Proficiency in cloud-native microservices architecture with strong AWS expertise.
• Expertise in API economy with business acumen.
• Ability to analyze legacy applications and define target-state architecture.
• Experience working in Agile methodology.
• Hands-on technology leadership — preferably full-stack development.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to deal with ambiguity.
• Attention to detail and team leadership capabilities.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams (Database, CTO organization, API Economy, etc.).
• Excellent English communication and presentation skills — this is a client-facing role.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership and accountability for the technology solution and output delivered by the team.
• Provide technology thought leadership and assist the team in making sound technical decisions.
• Remove technology-related obstacles throughout the project lifecycle.
• Work with architects, CTO organization, and cross-functional teams to ensure technology governance and best practices are followed.
• Understand functional, non-functional requirements, and quality attributes — and build solutions accordingly.
• Contribute to and improve architecture and design.
• Build, review, and ensure quality of data models, API contracts, architecture, frameworks, and code.
• Assist in effort estimation, planning, prioritization, and dependency identification.
• Manage all technology artifacts.
• Analyze legacy applications and define target-state design/architecture.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

AWS

REST APIs

Microservices

Cloud architecture

Agile

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Angular

TypeScript

Job description

EPAM Systems seeks a Senior Java Software Engineer to serve as a Technology Lead for a product team delivering investor-facing solutions for a major global asset management client. You will lead full-stack backend development, microservices, APIs, and data-store design while guiding modernization and cloud-native adoption.

This role requires availability to work from the office 3 times a week in Krakow or Gdansk, and offers a hybrid working model with Poland-wide remote possibilities and growth