What do we do?

GFT Technologies is driving the digital transformation of the world’s leading financial institutions. Other sectors, such as industry and insurance, also leverage GFT’s strong consulting and implementation skills across all aspects of pioneering technologies, such as cloud engineering, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things for Industry 4.0, and blockchain.

With its in-depth technological expertise, strong partnerships and scalable IT solutions, GFT increases productivity in software development. This provides clients with faster access to new IT applications and innovative business models, while also reducing risk.

We’ve been a pioneer of near-shore delivery since 2001 and now offer an international team spanning 16 countries with a global workforce of over 9,000 people around the world. GFT is recognised by industry analysts, such as Everest Group, as a leader amongst the global mid-sized Service Integrators and ranked in the Top 20 leading global Service Integrators in many of the exponential technologies such as Open Banking, Blockchain, Digital Banking, and Apps Services. 

Sign-on Bonus: Eligible for candidates who are currently employed elsewhere and able to join GFT within 30 days of offer acceptance.

We are looking for experienced and talented Java Backend Engineers to join our global engineering teams and developing and operating our flagship product (Digital Bank platform). 

Key Responsibilities 

• Design, develop, implement and maintain Java application 

• Write high quality, maintainable code using TDD and DDD 

• Translating user stories into working solution 

• Design and implement RESTful APIs 

• Design and implement microservice architecture within the give domain 

• Work with the distributed team in multiple time zones 

• Actively participate in Scrum technologies 

Requirements: 

Technical Qualifications: 

• Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience in programming.
• Java/Kotlin (Kotlin strongly preferred), SpringBoot, JPA, Kafka, Rest APIs.
• Hands on experience with various Java Web technologies and frameworks Spring (Security, MVC, SpringBoot) JPA, REST API, Maven, Junit test, Mockito, Kafka.
• Good practical knowledge of design of RDBMS and SQL
• Understanding of Agile methodologies 

Specific Qualifications 

• Excellent communication and writing skills in English. Be able to work in a team
• Understanding of financial instruments
• Be able to adapt, willingness to learn 

Essential Skillset 

• Automated unit and integration testing. (jUnit, mockito etc.)
• Gradle
• Data structures - dictionary, list, set
• Control-flow statements - switch, for, do-while. Microservice architecture
• Basic database fundamental. Joins, indexes, foreign keys, primary keys
• Relational DB, NoSQL, graph DB. ACID properties
• Basic system design. Protocols & standards (OpenAPI, avro, protobuf)
• Understanding of SOLID principles. Event driven architecture
• Basic dev-ops / infra fundamentals
• Messaging queues, Docker/Compose. Kubernetes ( basic knowledge on pods, configmap, deployments)
• Git (GitHub), CI/CD, Sonar.
• Basic security fundamentals 

Nice to have 

• Contract testing (PACT/Spring Cloud contract)
• Cloud (AWS)
• Log management tools. (Splunk, SumoLogic, ELK)
• Actively participate in Scrum technologies
• Recursions, depth/breadth-first search
• Design architecture (DNS, load balancers)
• SSL/MTLS, private key, a/symmetric keys, hashing, signatures, oauth
• GQL, Airflow, Typescript and Python 

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not received a response from GFT regarding your application within 10 workdays, please consider that we have decided to proceed with other candidates. We truly appreciate your interest in GFT and thank you for your understanding.