Lead Backend Engineer with AI/ML skills

GFT Technologies SEHybridFull-timeSenior, 5–8 yearsListed 6 days ago

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About this role

Type of contract: Employment contract

Salary range: 22500-34500 PLN gross

What will you do?

You will join a large-scale enterprise transformation initiative focused on modernizing and enhancing critical business applications. In this role, you will design, develop, integrate, and support enterprise-grade Java microservices while contributing to an AI-enabled software development lifecycle. You will work closely with architects, Tech Leads, QA, SRE, and platform teams to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient solutions in a complex, highly regulated environment.

Your tasks

- Build, test, release, and support Java microservices and related components

- Contribute to solution design and integration patterns aligned with target architecture and non-functional requirements

- Identify and help resolve technical risks, dependencies, and delivery blockers

- Follow and contribute to engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and quality controls

- Deliver robust unit, integration, and contract testing

- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and security reviews

- Use AI-assisted engineering tools while maintaining security, quality, and governance standards

- Apply GenAI development practices including LLM usage, RAG concepts, and agent-based workflows

- Build production-ready services with strong observability and operational readiness

- Support release activities, integrations, and environment readiness

- Collaborate with engineering, architecture, QA, platform, and operations teams

- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and engineering excellence

Your skills

- At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience

- Strong hands-on experience with Python development in enterprise-scale environments

- Good practical knowledge of Java and experience working with Java microservices based on Spring Boot

- Experience working in enterprise-scale environments

- Strong knowledge of Oracle or PostgreSQL databases

- Experience with schema design, performance optimization, and transactional systems

- Strong unit and integration testing experience using tools such as JUnit, Mockito, and Testcontainers

- Experience with API and contract testing

- Hands-on experience with Azure cloud services

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and quality gates

- Knowledge of Jenkins or GitLab

- Understanding of Sonar, SAST, DAST, and dependency scanning

- Strong understanding of REST APIs, messaging, event-driven architectures, and integration patterns

- Experience contributing to technical design decisions and architectural discussions

- Leadership experience and strong collaboration skills

- Practical exposure to GenAI tools and software engineering use cases

- Understanding of LLM concepts, RAG patterns, AI governance, and engineering controls

- Knowledge of secure coding practices and security-by-design principles

Nice to have

- Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industries

- Knowledge of containers and Kubernetes

- Exposure to service mesh technologies

- Experience with observability platforms, logging, metrics, and tracing

- Experience with performance engineering and resilience testing

- Previous experience implementing AI-enabled SDLC practices

- Hands-on experience building RAG solutions or integrating GenAI capabilities

- Experience with prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, or AI governance controls

We offer

- Hybrid work in our client's office (Kraków) 6-8 days a month

- Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team

- Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical, sport, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)

- Online training and certifications

- Access to e-learning platform

- Social events