Ciklum is looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join our team full-time in Ukraine.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.
About the role:
As a Senior Java Engineer, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.
Responsibilities:
- Drive backend architectural decisions for the core platform backbone
- Lead complex third-party vendor API orchestration and integration
- Design robust sync/async event-driven API structures ensuring strict regulatory adherence
- Be passionate about Event-Driven and Microservices Architecture
- Code, maintain and deploy quality code within an agile environment
- Be a collaborative member of a modern software team by owning, supporting and contributing to processes, standards, and designs alongside engineering teams in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Canada and beyond
- Be product-oriented. Develop software that other people want to use, define product features, participate in workshops with other product development teams and communicate the technical work of your team to other product development teams
- Own workstreams and track the progress you are making towards the wider goals of your team, and transparently communicate that progress to your team and Technology Manager
- Ensure you and others continuously improve by proposing and implementing new processes, designs and engineering practices that make your team more effective
- Take responsibility for supporting your changes all the way through to proving that they work well – and continue to work well – in production
Requirements:
- Solid coding fundamentals (our codebase is Java and Kotlin)
- Advanced Database Modeling & Migration
- Experience in Event-driven architecture
- Delivering high-quality software projects, using established best practices, and being able to implement mechanisms to ensure the quality is kept during its lifecycle
- Experience in an Agile environment (Scrum, Kanban)
- Able to work independently and collaborate to solve complex problems
- Critical thinking and good communication skills
Personal skills:
- Perform a broad range of complex technical or professional activities, in a variety of contexts
- Investigate, define and resolve complex issues
- Able to work in distributed cross-functional teams effectively
- Influence customers and team members on the project level
- Plan, schedule and monitor your own work competently
- Have learning agility (readiness for challenge and being open to change)
- Confident Intermediate English (or higher) is a must
What’s in it for you?
- Strong community: Work alongside top professionals in a friendly, open-door environment
- Growth focus: Take on large-scale projects with a global impact and expand your expertise
- Tailored learning: Boost your skills with internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications
- Endless opportunities: Explore diverse domains through internal mobility, finding the best fit to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
- Flexibility: Enjoy radical flexibility – work remotely or from an office, your choice
- Care: We’ve got you covered with company-paid medical insurance, mental health support, and financial & legal consultations
About us:
At Ciklum, we are always exploring innovations, empowering each other to achieve more, and engineering solutions that matter. With us, you’ll work with cutting-edge technologies, contribute to impactful projects, and be part of a One Team culture that values collaboration and progress.
As one of Ukraine’s largest IT companies and a top employer recognized by Forbes, we’ve spent over 20 years delivering meaningful tech solutions. We proudly support diverse talent and military veterans, recognizing their unique skills and perspectives they bring to shaping the future.
Explore, empower, engineer with Ciklum!
Interested already? We would love to get to know you! Submit your application. We can’t wait to see you at Ciklum.
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Skills Required
- Solid coding fundamentals in Java and Kotlin
- Advanced database modeling and migration experience
- Experience with event-driven architecture
- Experience delivering high-quality software using established best practices and lifecycle quality mechanisms
- Experience working in an Agile environment, including Scrum or Kanban
- Ability to work independently and collaborate on complex problems
- Critical thinking and good communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in distributed cross-functional teams
- Ability to influence customers and team members at the project level
- Ability to plan, schedule, and monitor work independently
- Learning agility and openness to change
- Confident Intermediate English or higher
What We Do
Ciklum is a global Digital Solutions Company for Fortune 500 and fast-growing organisations alike around the world. The company is headquartered in London and has software development centres and branch offices in the United States, Spain, Switzerland, Denmark, Israel, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, UAE and Pakistan. Ciklum builds tailored digital solutions that leverage emerging technologies for such clients as Just Eat, Flixbus, Metro Markets, EFG International, Zurich Insurance, Lottoland and others. For more information about us visit www.ciklum.com
