Java Full Stack Engineer Java Full Stack Engineer

Location: Pune

What do we do?

As a pioneer for digital transformation GFT develops sustainable solutions across new technologies – from cloud engineering and artificial intelligence to blockchain/DLT. With its deep technological expertise, strong partnerships, and comprehensive market know-how GFT offers advice to the financial and insurance sectors, as well as in the manufacturing industry. Through the intelligent use of IT solutions GFT increases productivity and creates added value for clients. Companies gain easy and safe access to scalable IT-applications and innovative business models.

Who are we? 

Having started in Germany in 1987, GFT Technologies has grown to become a trusted Software Engineering and Consulting specialist for the international financial industry, counting many of the world's largest and best-known Banks as our clients. We are an organization that empowers you to not only explore but raise your potential and seek out opportunities that add value. At GFT, diversity, equality, and inclusion are at the core of who we are. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive working environment for all communities is one of the main pillars of our diversity strategy, based on our core values and culture. We have been certified for 2022/23 as a 'Great place to work' in the APAC region. So, if you want to have the opportunity to work with an outstanding and progressive organization this position could be right for you.

Role Summary

Your role

Your role:

• Are you a passionate coder who loves solving problems and is driven by challenge? Can you navigate complex code to transform and simplify? Do you have the ability to apply critical thinking to evaluate a problem? Then you may be the one we are looking for who can:

• Write and test product development code

• Apply core and advanced concepts to develop business solutions

• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide architecture

• Review code developed by other developers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)

• Triage product or platform issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality

• Challenge vague requirements to gain clarity and avoid costly assumptions

Your team

• In our agile operating model, crews are aligned to larger products and services fulfilling client's needs and encompass multiple autonomous pods.

• You will be part of Global Markets Financing stream within Investment Banking division in Poland. The team is responsible for feature development, modernization and transformation of the platform used by both internal and external users.

• The stream is spread across all main UBS locations, with majority presence in Poland (Krakow and Wroclaw) and India (Pune). Most of the pods are co-located.

Your expertise

• Sound understanding with ability to apply core and advanced Java concepts

• Proven track record of enterprise level application development for 5+ years

• Hands-on experience with Java-related stack (Spring Framework, Hibernate)

• Proven knowledge about messaging systems (any JMS, Apache Kafka).

• Familiarity with at least one Version Control System, preferably Git

• Extensive experience of writing tests (TDD, BDD)

• Ability to write intermediate level SQL queries (performance tuning, DB optimisation)

• Excellent communication and problem solving skills

What we do offer

You will be working with some of the brightest people in business and technology on challenging and rewarding projects in a team of like-minded individuals. GFT prides itself on its international environment that promotes professional and cultural exchange and encourages further individual development.