Senior Java Engineer

Client: IT Services Center

Office Location: Bucharest

Contract Duration: 5 months+

Project No.: 012200826

General

We are looking for a Senior Java Engineer to build scalable, resilient and near real-time banking services in an international Agile environment.

Responsibilities/Activities

• Develop scalable backend services and APIs using Java, Kotlin and Spring.
• Build and improve near real-time banking processes that serve millions of end users across digital channels.
• Work on the backend services that support modern web applications and customer-facing journeys.
• Design and integrate event-driven solutions using Kafka and related messaging patterns.
• Own your work end to end: refine, code, test, automate, deploy and support it in production.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automated quality checks for reliable releases.
• Deploy and operate services across cloud and on-premise environments using Azure, OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Solve technical and functional challenges, balancing delivery speed, code quality, resilience and maintainability.
• Collaborate with engineers, business stakeholders and other disciplines in international Agile squads.
• Use AI-assisted development practices to speed up implementation, testing and documentation while keeping engineering quality high.

Requirements

Technical

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in backend software development.
• Strong Java development skills and practical experience with Kotlin.
• Hands-on experience with Spring and Maven.
• Experience with Kafka and event-driven or near real-time architectures.
• Experience with Azure and cloud-native application delivery.
• Experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift.
• Good understanding of automated testing, CI/CD, continuous delivery and deployment pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with engineering quality and security tooling such as Azure DevOps, SonarQube and Fortify.
• DevOps mindset: able to refine, code, test, deploy and take ownership of services in production.
• Strong analytical skills and a good conceptual and architectural understanding of distributed backend systems.
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows, including GitHub Copilot or similar LLM-based coding tools.
• Strong prompt-engineering skills for generating and improving code, tests and technical documentation with AI tools.
• Ability to use AI-enhanced coding practices to maintain development flow and improve engineering productivity.
• Experience with Prisma or comparable tooling used in the delivery environment.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Others

• Good command of English (written and spoken)
• Comfortable working in multidisciplinary, international Agile teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to discuss solutions with business colleagues.
• Self-motivated, curious and interested in recent software engineering and technology trends.
• Ability to challenge ideas constructively and act as a technical sparring partner for both engineering and business stakeholders.
• Focus on clean implementation, pragmatic problem solving and continuous improvement.

Nice to have requirements

• Experience building high-volume or customer-facing banking and financial services.
• Experience supporting systems that require high availability, resilience and near real-time data processing.
• Experience using pair-coding with LLMs or similar AI-first / “vibe coding” workflows in a professional engineering environment.