Senior Java Consultant with PostgreSQL
GFT Technologies SE Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland · PLN 260K–PLN 333K/yr
IT Services and IT Consulting · 10,001+ employees
About the role
You will design and develop backend services for financial platforms while managing cloud-native infrastructure and microservices. The role involves optimizing data integrations, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and supporting application modernization initiatives.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have strong experience with Java 17+, Spring Boot 3+, and microservices-based architectures. Proficiency in PostgreSQL, Azure services, Terraform, Kubernetes, and AI engineering tools is required.
Full description
Type of contract: B2B contract
Salary range: 125 - 160 PLN/H
What will you do?
You will work on large-scale financial services platforms supporting investment banking operations. The role focuses on digital transformation, process automation, data integration, and application modernization in a highly regulated environment while leveraging modern cloud technologies, microservices, and AI engineering tools.
Your tasks
- Design and develop backend services using Java and Spring Boot
- Build and maintain microservices-based solutions
- Develop and optimize integrations with PostgreSQL and Kafka
- Design and manage cloud-native solutions on Azure
- Implement and maintain Kubernetes and Terraform infrastructure
- Create and improve CI/CD pipelines in GitLab
- Develop automated tests and ensure software quality
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders
- Support application modernization and process automation initiatives
Requirements
- Strong experience with Java 17+ and Spring Boot 3+
- Experience with microservices-based architectures
- Good knowledge of PostgreSQL
- Experience with Kafka
- Strong knowledge of Azure services
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Databricks
- Practical experience with AI engineering tools including GHCP CLI
- Understanding of Generative AI concepts and frontier models
- Strong communication skills
- Domain knowledge of Stock Borrow Loan business
- Experience with JUnit 5, Mockito, Testcontainers or similar testing frameworks
- Understanding of structured context in codebases such as AGENTS.md and skills
- Experience with Helm
- Experience with GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 3 days a week
Nice to have
- Splunk
- Grafana
- Application Insights
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