Lead Java Solution Architect

Brief description of the vacancy

We are looking for a Lead Java Developer to join a highly collaborative agile team.

You will experience great culture in a rapidly scaling company while using world-class technologies. While the role is primarily back-end focused, there are opportunities to work across the full stack from UI to end data points. If this sounds like your kind of thing, apply today!

What You'll Do

  • Work with a distributed development team continuously delivering solutions that will enhance our SaaS platform capability
  • Partner with our UX/UI team and be part of the design decisions
  •  Contribute to sprint planning & backlog refinement sessions, daily stand-ups and retrospectives with our technology teams (Dev, Automated QA, UX/UI, Product)
  • Collaborate with our DevOps and Architecture teams to move to a continuous deployment model
  • Share your knowledge and enjoy mentoring other team members

What You Have

  • BS or MS Degree in Computer Science, Information technology or equivalent working experience
  • 5+ years working on application design and development in enterprise applications with the following: AWS, Java, OOP, JEE stack/Spring, JMS and Camel
  • Hands-on experience with some or all the following AWS services: EC2, S3, Fargate, CloudFront, Cognito, Lambda, OpenSearch, API Gateway, etc
  • Familiarity with RESTful as an API design
  • Database application development experience with SQL or NoSQL databases
  • Experience with git or other version control tools
  • Showcase of automated unit and integration testing
  • Agile mindset
  • Focus on delivering value

Nice to Have

  • Knowledge of Linux and shell scripting
  • Background in Python

Technologies

  • Java 8/11, Spring, RESTful webservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS (EC2, S3, Fargate, Cognito, Lambda, CloudFront, OpenSearch, API Gateway), Apache Kafka, Apache Camel, ActiveMQ, Tomcat 9, Oracle DB, PL/SQL, JMeter, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJs, Webpack, Jenkins, Sonar, Maven, Git

We Offer

  • Outstanding career development opportunities with a transparent roadmap to accelerate your journey
  • Knowledge sharing within the community of industry’s top professionals worldwide
  • Various opportunities for self-development: hard & soft skills internal training courses, mentoring programs, and unlimited access to 8,000+ LinkedIn Learning courses
  • Free English classes with certified teachers
  • Competitive compensation in USD, regular assessments, and salary reviews
  • Bonuses for participating in the referral program
  • Flexible schedule and opportunity to work remotely from any place in Kazakhstan
  • Friendly team, and enjoyable working environment
  • Relocation opportunities within our offices in 50+ countries with throughout support for you and your family
  • 28 vacation days and 6 trust days per year (sick leave without a medical certificate)
  • Medical & family care programs, corporate and social events

About EPAM

  • EPAM Kazakhstan is a team of technologists and innovators united by a passion for technology. Today we operate across all cities with offices in Astana, Almaty, and Karaganda and work with the world's leading companies from different industries. EPAM builds a continuously learning organization and helps its employees reach their full potential and achieve their professional goals through learning. Our agile methodologies, customer collaboration frameworks, engineering excellence programs, and hybrid teams offer many career paths and development opportunities.