Senior Java Backend Engineer

About Architus

Architus specializes in providing UK and US organizations with access to the top talent in Europe, helping to build high-performing technology teams and establish an overseas presence. With offices in London, Vilnius, and Kaunas, Architus has a strong track record in Financial Services and the Fintech world with clients including Invesco, Capital Group, Schroders, BNP Paribas, and HSBC.

Architus is partnering with one of the fastest-growing Fintechs in Europe to help establish a significant presence in Lithuania. The company has over 1000 employees globally, a positive revenue stream, and recently secured $100m in funding to accelerate its global expansion.

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There are several opportunities for experienced Java Engineers to become part of the company’s Lithuania-based engineering group which already has 20 employees, will reach 100+ employees, and grow significantly further in 2023.

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This is a full-time role that provides a unique opportunity for an exciting career path working on international projects.

You will be a key member of an agile engineering team, working on strategic projects including Payments and Open Banking, Credit and Loans for a rapidly expanding international company at the leading edge of banking technology.

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You will be actively collaborating with other Backend and iOS, Android, Web, QA, DevOps, Data, and Product teams to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions. You will be able to join the Fintech company's backend Community of Practices, learn from them, and propose your own practices to maintain high quality across the backend. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to make a real difference in an international business.

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Here is an outline of the technology landscape:

“On the backend, we see Java 8 as legacy and use Java 11+ for our micro-services. We provide RESTful APIs to our colleagues in the front end. Spring Boot is our workhorse, but we are open to new experiments. We are cloud-native and run everything on AWS. You’ll see containers (Docker), queues (SNS+SQS, Kafka), and events everywhere. The nature of our business naturally fits with relational databases, but we have also found some use cases for NoSQL. Our frontends have done an incredible job at consuming our APIs and providing the best UX to our members. They are native Android and iOS apps or Angular 2+ web apps. The Cloud Engineering team provides us with vital infrastructure and DevOps support on the cloud.”

Key qualifications outlined below will be used as a guideline, and candidates will be assessed on their overall strength.

• 4+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years of commercial experience building server-side applications and good knowledge of the relevant programming languages (i.e Java 8 or newer).
• Familiar with Java backend frameworks (e.g. Spring/Spring Boot).
• Exposure to microservices or implementing and consuming RESTful APIs
• Able to demonstrate a mindset of delivering secure, well-tested, and well-documented software
• Willing to own code from development to production
• Experience with relational databases
• Exposure to continuous integration, delivery, and deployment
• Comfortable working in agile methodologies, ideally Scrum
• Familiar with common development tools such as IntelliJ, Git, Jira, etc
• Fluent English speaker with excellent spoken and written communication skills

• Gross salary from 6,000 Eur/month upwards depending on skills and experience 
• 25 days holiday (in addition to Lithuanian public holidays)
• 3 paid days off for Learning & Development activities
• Modern office space in Vilnius and Kaunas
• Full flexibility to work from home or in the office
• Private health insurance
• Free gym membership
• High-specification hardware
• Professional development with an international company
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Exceptional career progression opportunities
• Dynamic, collaborative, and friendly working environment