EPAM is seeking a skilled Senior Java Software Developer with Kafka and Flink to join an established engineering team delivering strategic regulatory reporting solutions for a top-tier global investment bank. The platform sits at the heart of the bank's operations — processing millions of messages daily under strict SLAs to ensure complete, accurate, and timely reporting to global regulators.
You'll collaborate with distributed teams across Krakow, Wrocław, and London — a community of open-minded, highly motivated professionals who genuinely care about quality. Teams select the methodologies that work best for them, whether Kanban, Scrum, or TDD.
The technology landscape includes Java 8, Groovy, Spring, Spring Boot, Oracle, Docker, Kafka, Flink, and in-house frameworks. The culture is built on partnership with the business, transparency, accountability, empowerment, and a passion for what's next. Delivery happens in monthly Agile cycles with continuous stakeholder collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain Java-based applications powering regulatory data processing
- Design infrastructure and network topology solutions for innovative projects
- Apply best development practices to produce high-quality, maintainable code
- Provide architectural expertise and technical guidance to team members
- Lead technical design discussions and ensure development methodology adherence
- Build relationships with business users and facilitate requirements gathering
- Investigate and resolve production issues; maintain a stable production environment
Requirements
- Experience designing and implementing Java backend applications (Java 8, Spring, Spring Boot)
- Knowledge of database design and SQL, including query optimization
- Solid Object-Oriented analysis and design skills — design patterns, clean code principles, and concepts such as OOD, TDD, BDD, DDD, CI/CD
- Proficiency with SDLC tools: IntelliJ IDEA, Git, Gradle, Maven, Jenkins, JIRA
- Familiarity with debugging and performance tuning; understanding of deploying, maintaining, and monitoring complex Java applications
- Knowledge of modern technical architectures and pragmatic application of their benefits
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Good written and verbal English communication skills
Nice to have
- Experience with GitHub, ELK Stack, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Batch, Spring Integration
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures and stream processing
- Experience with other JVM languages such as Groovy
- Hands-on practice with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
- Exposure to UNIX/Linux environments with shell scripting
- Experience or genuine interest in financial products and regulatory reporting
We offer/Benefits
We gather like-minded people:
- Top tech minds driving innovation in AI, cloud and digital platform modernization
- Supportive team and agile, startup-like culture
- Hybrid by design mode and opportunity to work remotely within Poland
- Chance to work abroad for up to 60 days annually
- Business-driven relocation opportunities
We provide growth opportunities:
- Career development programs
- Thought leadership, mentoring, soft skills and well-being programs
- Certification (Anthropic, Gemini, GCP, Azure, AWS)
- English classes
We cover it all:
- Stable pay
- Participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 15% discount
- Benefits package (health insurance, multisport, shopping vouchers)
- Referral bonuses up to $2,000
- Offices featuring entertainment and relaxation zones, table tennis and football, free snacks, coffee and more
- Corporate, social and well-being events
Please, note:
- Benefits listed above are available to employees only
- We are open for working with Contractors. Terms of B2B cooperation agreements are agreed individually
- We will reach out to selected candidates exclusively
EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.
EPAM is global leader in AI transformation engineering and integrated consulting, serving Forbes Global 2000 companies and ambitious startups. With over thirty years of expertise in custom software, product and platform engineering, we empower our clients to become AI-Native enterprises, driving measurable value from innovation and digital investments.
