Senior Java Engineer

Location: Ukraine

Department: Raisin Team

A global marketplace for savings and investments, providing users with seamless access to high-yield savings accounts and investment options from over 400 partner banks worldwide. The platform removes geographic barriers while ensuring transparency, convenience, and competitive rates. For banks, it delivers cost-efficient deposit funding and innovative Banking-as-a-Service solutions. The team is responsible for the integration of transaction accounts, hosted via our servicing banks, into the Raisin platform. They ensure smooth funding across all products, correctly routing incoming and outgoing payments to their intended destinations. The team consists of 10 members working collaboratively in a cross-functional setup.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver core services and high-quality solutions for a large-scale online platform and its banking systems.
•  Integrate externally developed components into existing applications.
• Define standards, share best practices, and contribute to continuous learning within the team.
• Perform software engineering tasks with a strong focus on quality and support teammates in maintaining the same standards.
• Conduct thorough code reviews, covering best practices, business rules, performance, security, and impact on other features/projects, always providing constructive and respectful feedback.
• Collaborate within the team to negotiate and document software development standards and practices.
• Research and propose multiple technical solutions whenever possible.
• Take end-to-end ownership of project delivery within the team.
• Maintain and manage technical documentation and address technical debt proactively.
• Participate in the hiring process through tech-fit interviews and technical challenge evaluations.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of overall software development experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with Java and Spring Boot.
• Strong understanding and hands-on application of design patterns.
• Practical experience with testing practices (unit, integration) using tools such as JUnit, Mockito, TestContainers.
• 4+ years of experience with AWS Services, Kubernetes, event-driven architectures (Kafka or ActiveMQ), Spring Boot, SQL, and NoSQL.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate challenges and solutions clearly.
• Proven team player who collaborates effectively and supports shared goals.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze production issues and design robust solutions (highly desirable).
• Proactive in supporting teammates and driving technical improvements (strongly preferred).
• High responsibility when working with payments, as this is a critical, core functionality for the company.