Technical Project manager / Team Lead (Java )

Solution Architect will participate in technical delivery. Our client work with leading global pharmaceutical companies and their Logistics Service Provider (LSP) partners on removing peer-to-peer integrations throughout their clients’ supply chain.

Few words about us: 

We are a part of SPD Group, an international company that provides software engineering and product development services for clients in the USA, Israel, EU, and UK. Our clients are global companies like Morningstar, PitchBook, GoDaddy, PieInsurance, floLIVE, Fundomate, and others. Our team consists of 600+ specialists certified by Oracle, ISTQB, AWS, PMI, Scrum Alliance, Amazon, and other organizations. And now we are looking for a Solution Architect to join our team.

Our client builds a platform for life sciences companies and logistics service providers to collaborate securely using blockchain technology: a unified software platform for managing supply chain partners, allowing customers to build flexibility into their operations.

The platform removes peer-to-peer connections by linking IT systems across pharmaceutical, logistics and contract manufacturing/packaging organisations to improve visibility and generate efficiencies across their supply chain operations.

It provides a single and secure platform to automatically extract, synthesise and visualise partner performance metrics across the supply chain. Connecting to the platform helps create a decentralised data exchange platform, enabling companies to work more efficiently, free up working capital, have visibility in areas where there is currently none, significantly reduce annual spend on IT services and new supplier integration, as well as calculate and reduce Scope 3 carbon emissions, to support sustainability goals.

We are looking for the person who has:

— 7+ years experience in consultative/complex technical sales and deployment projects;

— 7+ years of architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications;

— Previous experience leading technical onboarding of the customer (integrations, EDI, data migration);

— EDI knowledge primarily in relation to SAP as well as EDIFact & X12;

— Experience procuring and managing outsourced and internal specialty technical teams;

— Experience in an enterprise-focused, client-facing role with excellent delivery;

— Experience with mapping software (Flowforce, Mapforce or similar);

— Experience with managed file transfer software and AS2 connections (Jscape or similar);

— Experience with AWS services (S3, Lambda, EC2);

Preferred but not mandatory:

— Experience in working in health and life sciences vertical;

— Experience working with supply chain logistics messaging data;

— Cloud Qualifications for either AWS or GCP;

— Hands-on Java/Kotlin/JavaScript experience.

Sounds like you? Here’s some of what you’ll be doing:

As a Solution Architect, you will act as client technical point of contact for everything related to the platform. You will be responsible for analysing client requirements, current data exchange processes, and designing and communicating architecture. Working closely with the Senior Project Manager, you will liaise with clients to communicate recommendations for piloting the platform. The successful candidate will also be responsible for building aspects of the platform and working with clients to test APIs and ensuring successful deployment.

Technologies stack: Java (most of the tools on Java), Kotlin, JavaScript, AWS services (S3, Lambda, EC2), Mapforce etc.

Team consist Developers, QAs, PMs, Tech Leads, Solution Architect.

Schedule: Flexible, aprox. 10-19.

Interview steps:

1) Tech Interview with (up to 1.5 hours);

2) Interview with client (up to 1 hour).

Our offer:

— Medical Insurance yearly budget to obtain insurance plan in Ukraine / financial reimbursement of expenses on medical services outside Ukraine;

— 20 business days of paid vacation, unlimited sick leave, 4 days of emergency leave;

— Sports program: 50% reimbursement for gym, sports events and equipment, massage services within budget limit;

— Wellbeing program: individual consultations with professional psychologists, psychiatrists, and coaches;

— Budget for personal learnings, conferences, certifications, courses, subscriptions etc. and language classes (Ukrainian, English);

— Family events presents and financial help in emergency cases;

Does this sound like the kind of place you want to work at?

We look forward to hearing ’hi’ from you.

Apply! 🙂

About the project

The innovative company from Silicon Valley offers smart payment terminals to offline businesses that make the payment experience of their customers very smooth and easy as it was ever before. Smart terminals are powered by their own mobile OS, based on Android. The company also has an app marketplace where hundreds of mobile developers across the globe can create and sell their apps for these smart terminals.This company was acquired by GoDaddy in 2021. GoDaddy has a much wider range of e-commerce solutions onboard, and now they started using smart terminals’ solutions to make their e-commerce service even more powerful.

About SPD-Ukraine

As a part of SPD Group, we provide software engineering and product development services for clients worldwide—the USA, Israel, UK, and EU. Our world-class team of 600+ engineers deliver Web, Mobile, AI/ML or Enterprise solutions to a wide range of business domains, such as FinTech, eCommerce, SaaS, LegalTech, InsurTech, HRTech, Cybersecurity, etc. Our key clients are world-renowned iconic brands such as Poynt, PitchBook, MorningStar, PieInsurance. Ten of our clients report more than $100 million in annual revenue.

Headquartered in London, UK, and with development centers in Kyiv, Lviv, Cherkasy, Ukraine, SPD Group aims to impact the lives of millions by revealing great tech ideas and potential. We do not cooperate with companies from russia and belarus.

We are looking for a person who has:

• 5+ years of experience in the software development area (3+ years working with Java, 1+ years having leadership responsibilities)
• Experience with Spring and Hibernate
• Experience in SQL and REST
• Experience with CI/CD tools
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Sense of responsibility
• Experience in requirements analysis
• Experience in people management
• Experience in priorities management
• Experience in effective managing of team processes
• Desire to grow in management direction
• English level: Upper-intermediate or higher

Would be a plus:

• Experience in e-commerce and payments domain
• Experience working with high-load distributed systems
• Experience working with AWS services
• Good knowledge of scrum processes

Sounds like you? Here are some of what you’ll be doing:

• Leading a distributed team of 5–7 people
• Managing 1-2 big initiatives for the team: planning timelines, controlling the progress, and helping with open questions and blockers.
• Take part in regular development work: features implementation, troubleshooting, code review
• Ability to understand complex logic in payments and e-commerce areas
• Facilitating online stand-up meetings, sprint planning meetings, retrospective meetings
• Distribution of tasks in the team, assigning the ownership, coordination
• Help the team with analysis of requirements, take part in technical discussions
• Finding a balance between speed and quality
• Having regular 1–1 meetings with Ukrainian team members

Technical stack:

• Java 17, Spring, Hibernate, Kafka
• MySQL 5.7, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Redis
• TestNG, JUnit, Mockito, Postman
• AWS: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS
• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Kibana

Tools: Jira, Confluence, Miro, Slack, Zoom, MS Office 360

Schedule: Flexible, with the ability to work late hours when needed (till ~9 pm GMT)

Team:

• Ukraine (SPD): 6 Java Dev, 1 Front-end, 1 Product Manager, 1 Team Lead.
• US (from the client side): 9 Java devs, 4 product managers, 1 architect/DevOps, 1 dev manager.

What we can offer:

• Well-known and stable project & client
• Innovative e-commerce & payments product
• Ability to grow as a manager

Interview steps:

• Pre-screening Interview
• Technical Interview
• Client Interview

Does this sound like the kind of place you want to work at? We look forward to hearing ’hi’ from you 

As a Senior developer experience engineer, you will join the Platform Engineering team of one of our largest fintech projects and will be engaged in optimization and improvement of development processes and building a unique internal product for your final customers — a top-notch team of 250+ engineers. You will hold the ownership of a fully innovative product with all the responsibilities and opportunities, and possess autonomy in exploring the cutting-edge technologies to build a solution to measurably improve the lives of engineers by automating away all manual processes required from code to delivery. You will utilize your extensive background building, deploying, and delivering products end-to-end. Also you will focus on consistently delighting PitchBook customers through the reliability, quality, and delivery speed of our products.

You will target both hands-on work identifying delivery technologies, building pipelines, digging deep into our infrastructure and cloud deployments, and broad strategizing in engineering operations, practices, and standards across the organization, working closely with engineering leadership.

About the project

PitchBook — the ecosystem for investment professionals (US, since 2016 — an autonomous business in the Morningstar company) of more than 150 services for the collection, processing, analysis and visualisation of financial data. We’ve been cooperating with the client from the very beginning of product creation — since 2007 — starting from a pilot and a small project team, and later turned into its main partner for full-cycle tech development. Our software provides access to data and analytical tools to get answers fast and discover promising opportunities, uncovers actionable insights and trends hidden within the financial data of more than three million companies. Users all over the world include large corporations, start-ups, venture capital and private equity firms, investment banks, and many others.

Features of PitchBook platform: Advanced search / Discovery & insights / Company profiles / Workflow & efficiency / Many more.

About SPD-Ukraine

As a part of SPD Group, we provide software engineering and product development services for clients worldwide—the USA, Israel, UK, and EU. Our world-class team of 600+ engineers deliver Web, Mobile, AI/ML or Enterprise solutions to a wide range of business domains, such as FinTech, eCommerce, SaaS, LegalTech, InsurTech, HRTech, Cybersecurity, etc. Our key clients are world-renowned iconic brands such as Poynt, PitchBook, MorningStar, PieInsurance. Ten of our clients report more than $100 million in annual revenue.

Headquartered in London, UK and with development centers in Kyiv, Lviv, Cherkasy, Ukraine, SPD Group aims to impact the lives of millions by revealing great tech idea and potential. We do not cooperate with companies from russia and belarus.

We are looking for a person who has:

• Extensive experience in software development, preferably in Java/Node.JS. Solid understanding of programming best practices and principles, common software architectures and methods.
• Good knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, network protocols.
• Solid experience in DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and GitOps configuration & CI/CD pipelines, including Flux/ArgoCD, Terraform, Puppet/Chef, Gitlab CI/Github Actions, or similar tools.
• Background in system administration, infrastructure management or HA solutions, including web services, messaging solutions (Kafka, RabbitMQ), databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server), and caching solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. You can effectively read the situation and adjust your communication style to the audience.

Sounds like you? Here are some of what you’ll be doing:

• Own engineering operations strategies, practices, and standards across the organization, working closely with engineering leadership.
• Evangelize and organize PitchBook’s DevOps culture, integrating product and engineering with operations seamlessly through structure, collaboration, enablement, and automation.
• Devise solutions that optimize and accelerate the SDLC while maintaining exceptional quality and security, repeatedly applied through automation.
• Help development teams to manage infrastructure, including cloud managed services, base images, containerization strategy and execution, infrastructure automation (+ GitOps), cloud procurement, and governance.
• Manage developer experience (DevEx), including developer productivity, SDLC and operational metrics, automated CI/CD pipelines, value stream management and tracking, tool selection and integration.
• Describe technical context in intuitive ways for different audiences, adapting communication from highly technical deep dives with engineers to non-technical dialogue with executive stakeholders.
• Learn constantly, including in available managed services (PaaS/SaaS/IaaS), libraries, frameworks, and platforms (commercial and open source), pros/cons and cost/benefit tradeoffs.
• Follow the company’s application of Agile, Lean, and principles of fast flow to engineering department efficiency and productivity, and owns operations’ role in process automation to achieve fluidity.

Team Structure: 1 Lead and 3 specialists with You

Schedule: flexible (with the need to attend team meetings)

Interview steps:

• Pre-screening Interview
• Technical Interview
• HR-Interview
• Client Interview

We offer:

• Medical Insurance yearly budget to obtain insurance plan in Ukraine / financial reimbursement of expenses on medical services outside Ukraine;
• 20 business days of paid vacation, unlimited sick leave, 4 days of emergency leave.
• Sports program: 50% reimbursement for gym, sports events and equipment, massage services within budget limit.
• Wellbeing program: individual consultations with professional psychologists, psychiatrists and coaches.
• Budget for personal learnings, conferences, certifications, courses, subscriptions etc. and language classes (Ukrainian, English).
• Family events presents and financial help in emergency cases.

If you love building customer-centric solutions, strive for excellence, are adaptable and focused, and want to see the impact of your work every day, come join us! We look forward to hearing ’hi’ from you 🙂