Java Systems Technology Lead

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships.  We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

Location: Kraków

Hybrid model: Hybrid model 3 days per week in the office /2 days for a parent of a child up to 4 years old

About the role:

BBH is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our Infomediary Systems Technology Lead. As part of IT Shared Services, you will work as part of a dynamic team responsible for delivering on a variety of technical product initiatives. This position works closely with business/product experts, architects, vendors and application developers to conceptualize, develop and deliver projects and solutions. You must be highly skilled, team oriented, and eager to learn to contribute in a mature and proactive way to all phases of a project lifecycle.

In our team, you will be responsible for:

• Act as a hands-on Technical Lead to drive the architecture, design decisions for a products development
• Consistent practice in coding and unit testing
• Conduct code reviews for the team and have well establish standards and practices for the team
• Work with distributed teams (infrastructure, network, etc.) and act as subject matter expert
• Provide technical leadership on best practices for chosen architecture and technology
• Identify issues and risks and proactively add to the iterative discussion
• Communicate efficiently within and outside the team
• Strong organizational, time management

What we’re looking for:

• At least 3 years in leading a team of engineers to develop and deliver new services.
• At least 10 years of professional experience as a software engineer in a full-stack capacity
• Demonstrate critical thinking and drive application architecture and design decisions
• Java - must be proficient in the language, core libraries & design patterns (Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring Integration)
• Experience working with technical management, product owners, and operations
• Experience establishing work relationships across multi-disciplinary teams and multiple partners in different time zones.
• Hands-on with strong organizational skills and great attention to detail
• Experience with WebServices (REST)
• Experience with ORM frameworks (JPA, Hibernate, OpenJPA)
• Experience with test frameworks: JUnit, TestNG, Mockito
• Experience with version control practices using Git
• Experience with micro-service architecture
• Experience with iterative and agile methodology
• Improve the code quality with effective testing and review process.
• Design and develop scalable technical implementations.
• Experience with one or more modern front-end frameworks/libraries such as Angular; React is a plus
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Good communicator, keen to collaborate and share knowledge

What we offer:

• To encourage cultural awareness and philanthropy, BBHers have 1 Culture Celebration Day and 1 Community Service Day in addition to their paid standard vacation allowance
• Task based working system
• Private medical care
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program - offering independent and confidential counselling services for you and your family. You can get support for topics including family, marriage and relationships, finances, and legal issues.
• Professional trainings and qualification support
• Wellbeing Program
• Online Social Fund benefit platform
• Social, sport and integration events
• Onboarding Program for new hires

We value diverse experiences. We value diverse experiences and transferrable skillsets. If your career hasn’t followed a traditional path, includes alternative experiences, or doesn’t meet every qualification or skill listed in the job description, please do go ahead and apply.

About BBH:

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions and partnership approach to client management. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges. Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us.

We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do. We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development—so we are never possessive about our ideas. Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice—creating success that lasts. No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas. BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help. Expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another. 

We believe stability is a competitive advantage, but being stable means having the knowledge, skill, and discipline to evolve, often—pushing the boundaries of innovation.  As a private partnership, every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products and development we believe are in the long-term interests of our clients and our people. Our long-tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day-to day business, taking the time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers. Because we know, our success begins with yours.

Go to BBH.com to learn more about our rewards and benefits, philanthropy, approach to sustainability or how we support you to thrive personally, physically and financially.