Senior Java Software Engineer

EPAM is seeking aSenior Java Software Engineer to serve as a Technology Lead for a product team delivering investor-facing solutions for the world's second-largest asset management company — a global financial services leader managing trillions in assets and serving millions of investors worldwide.

The client is driving a major digital transformation focused on agility, innovation, and automation, built on a completely cloud-native AWS architecture with a strong emphasis on serverless and microservices. EPAM operates as a strategic engineering partner with end-to-end product ownership — from ideation through post-production.

In this role, you will provide hands-on technology leadership for full-stack backend development, including microservices, APIs, and data store design — while guiding the team through legacy modernization and cloud-native architecture adoption.

This role requires availability to work from the office 3 times a week in Krakow or Gdansk.

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

Requirements

• 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

Nice to have

• Front-end experience with Angular and TypeScript
• Experience with Node.js for backend services
• Familiarity with Python for scripting or data-related tasks
• Experience with databases: DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, or legacy DB2
• Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Splunk
• Experience with testing frameworks (Cucumber, API testing tools)
• Familiarity with mobile testing tools such as Perfecto
• Background in financial services, asset management, or investor-facing platforms
• Experience with data migration and legacy system decommissioning