Senior Java Developer

at  Brown Brothers Harriman

At BBH we value diverse backgrounds, so if your experience looks a little different from what we’ve outlined and you think you can bring value to the role, we will still welcome your application!
What You Can Expect At BBH:
If you join BBH you will find a collaborative environment that enables you to step outside your role to add value wherever you can. You will have direct access to clients, information and experts across all business areas around the world. BBH will provide you with opportunities to grow your expertise, take on new challenges, and reinvent yourself—without leaving the firm. We encourage a culture of inclusion that values each employee’s unique perspective. We provide a high-quality benefits program emphasizing good health, financial security, and peace of mind. Ultimately we want you to have rewarding work with the flexibility to enjoy personal and family experiences at every career stage. Our BBH Cares program offers volunteer opportunities to give back to your community and help transform the lives of others.
Join us as a Senior Java Developer in our FX Systems team!
Looking for a talented, technical excellent and self-motivating Senior Java Developer to join our Foreign Exchange team in Krakow and develop business-critical applications.

As a Senior Java developer, you will be responsible for:

• Developing our applications - by delivering new features according to the business requirements, ensuring their high quality and timely delivery. We expect you to develop maintainable, well-documented solutions, with an eye toward standardization, reusability, simplicity, performance, robustness, and other attributes of enterprise-strength solutions.
• Contributing to the application design - creating necessary Proofs of Concepts and prototypes, contributing to technical design of applications, helping to choose the right tech stack, choosing, and applying system integration patterns, contributing to DB & data model design.
• Helping to define application requirements - using your technical expertise to work with business analysts, business representatives and other stakeholders to define requirements.
• Thorough validation of the developed system – by utilizing advanced techniques and comprehensive testing approach (e.g., negative testing, testing boundary conditions, etc.), and working with the business stakeholders to support UAT testing.
• Supporting our business stakeholders with your technical expertise - replying to inquiries, investigating, and resolving encountered issues, addressing production incidents, and maintaining a helpful, “high-touch” approach to working with our business users.
• Following and improving Agile practices - participating in Scrum Development team, encouraging others to follow the rules of Agile development, continuously improving our development methodology
• Taking ownership of your team’s work – we’re looking for a person demonstrating high commitment, strong work ethic and leadership skills (facilitating communication within and outside of the team, supporting the team in decision making, sharing your expertise, engaging other team members, etc.).

What we offer:

• 2 additional days added to your holiday calendar for Culture Celebration and Community Service
• Private medical care for you and your family
• Life Insurance
• Hybrid Working Opportunities
• Professional trainings and qualification support
• Thrive Wellbeing Program
• Online benefit platform
• Contracts for an indefinite period of time with no probation period

We expect you to have the following skills:

• Excellent Java 11+ knowledge - solid experience with core Java and popular libraries.
• Good knowledge of Spring (Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring Security) and Spring Boot.
• Solid experience with ORM frameworks (JPA, Hibernate) and databases (Oracle).
• Strong foundation in OOP and Design Patterns (Clean Code, SOLID).
• High proficiency in developing web apps in Java (including REST services & WebSocket).
• High proficiency in software development practices: unit testing, CI/CD, refactoring, etc.
• Knowledge of popular test framework: JUnit, Spock, Mockito.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Good command of English.

The following skills would be considered as an additional advantage:

• Leadership skills (both technical and people-related).
• Experience with FE development (React, Angular 2+, typescript, jQuery).
• Knowledge of the following tools and platforms: Red Hat OpenShift, Oracle DB, Tomcat.

• Developing our applications - by delivering new features according to the business requirements, ensuring their high quality and timely delivery. We expect you to develop maintainable, well-documented solutions, with an eye toward standardization, reusability, simplicity, performance, robustness, and other attributes of enterprise-strength solutions.
• Contributing to the application design - creating necessary Proofs of Concepts and prototypes, contributing to technical design of applications, helping to choose the right tech stack, choosing, and applying system integration patterns, contributing to DB & data model design.
• Helping to define application requirements - using your technical expertise to work with business analysts, business representatives and other stakeholders to define requirements.
• Thorough validation of the developed system – by utilizing advanced techniques and comprehensive testing approach (e.g., negative testing, testing boundary conditions, etc.), and working with the business stakeholders to support UAT testing.
• Supporting our business stakeholders with your technical expertise - replying to inquiries, investigating, and resolving encountered issues, addressing production incidents, and maintaining a helpful, “high-touch” approach to working with our business users.
• Following and improving Agile practices - participating in Scrum Development team, encouraging others to follow the rules of Agile development, continuously improving our development methodology
• Taking ownership of your team’s work – we’re looking for a person demonstrating high commitment, strong work ethic and leadership skills (facilitating communication within and outside of the team, supporting the team in decision making, sharing your expertise, engaging other team members, etc.)