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Senior Java Developer / Tech Lead

Senior Java Developer / Tech Lead

Custom Field 1:  Backend Development
Custom Field 3:  Backend Development
Country/Region:  PL
Date:  Jul 29, 2025
Location: 

Kraków, PL, 30-302

Working place:  Hybrid

What will you do?

  • Participate in the development and replacement of a third-party application used for pricing financial instruments (swaps and bonds)
  • Work on implementing a new microservice-based architecture to replace an existing system
  • Ownership and development of the STP components
  • Ownership and development of the new trade booking components 
  • Support of Electronic Trading platform for CEEMEA, LATAM and APAC regions
  • Own technical design for the systems/application
  • Ensure the system meets low-latency and high-accuracy requirements, critical for real-time decision-making
  • Collaborate closely with multiple internal teams, including pricing, infrastructure, and architecture, to ensure consistent delivery and integration
  • Lead the rest of the development team in the design and approach
  • Deliver high-quality code in a mission-critical financial environment

 

Your Skills 

  • Strong knowledge of Java
  • Solid understanding of REPOs (repurchase agreements) and financial domain logic
  • Strong experience with multithreading and concurrency management in distributed systems
  • Hands-on experience with Google Guice for dependency injection
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment
  • Understand the business requirements/domain and how they can be modelled/implemented in the system. This includes extending the system/model to new use cases, business requirements.
  • Advanced Java Threading patterns
  • Low-latency development (understand of FIX Engine, Chronicle Queue, Chronicle Map tehnologies, Active-Active, Active-Passive architecture is big advantage).
  • Hands on experience with distributed systems design
  • Experience to implementation and setup of observability and monitoring systems.

Nice to Have 

  • Devops experience
  • Incident management

 

We offer you: 

  • Hybrid work – 2 days a week in our/our client's office in Kraków
  • Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
  • Competitive salary and extra benefit package that can be tailored to your personal needs (private medical coverage, sport & recreation package, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
  • Contract of employment or B2B contract  
  • On-line training and certifications fit for career path
  • Free on-line foreign languages lessons
  • Regular social events 
  • Access to e-learning platform

We are GFT Poland. WE KNOW how to tackle complex issues with innovative approach to deliver the highest value. Our reputation has been built around one simple rule: we do not overpromise, WE DELIVER. We deliver to our employees, clients and partners. WE GROW as you grow, so investing in you is our business strategy. Caring for each other is our priority. WE CARE who you are, what you need, how you feel. WE CARE to smile, have fun and develop as human beings. 

Why Choose GFT?

  • A culture of top performance
  • Deep tech IT engineering & consulting 
  • 1,400 skilled & top-class experts 
  • 77% of the team are regular/senior 
  • Great Place To Work
  • Products that contribute to a sustainable world
  • Competitive salary and benefits 
  • Ambitious projects, trainings and tools you need to flourish
  • Google Cloud Partner of the Year - for going above and beyond for customers

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