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Senior Software Architect/Developer (Financial Payments)

IBM

Accounting & Finance, Software Engineering, IT

Kraków, Poland

Posted on Aug 7, 2025

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Introduction

Software Developers at IBM are the backbone of our strategic initiatives in the global financial sector. You will design, code, and test the industry-leading solutions that power the world’s economy, with a core focus on platforms like our Financial Transaction Manager (FTM). Your work ensures that billions in high-value bank transactions—from real-time payments to complex international transfers—complete securely and in the blink of an eye.

The code you write is critical to the operational success and security of IBM's top-tier financial clients worldwide. At IBM, you will tackle these complex challenges using the latest software development tools, agile techniques, and modern architectural patterns. You'll collaborate with leading minds in FinTech to build resilient, high-performance financial solutions you can be truly proud of.

Your role and responsibilities

You will be working as an Architect and Senior Developer within a Global team, reporting to Local and International Development Management.

You will be primarily responsible for design, code and unit test of new product features. Additionally, you will be required to work as mentoring junior members of your team, being a focal point for them. You will also have opportunity to work directly with clients, interacting with them for requirements gathering, scope identification and participating in planning timelines and priorities.

You would also be required to work on product documentation, build automation and work with the QA teams on resolution of defects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review Requirement documentation and technical specifications
• Take ownership large portions of product functionality, including design, code & unit test new product features
• Lead and Mentor Junior developers across multiple Geographies
• Potentially act as Scrum-Lead for various product deliverables
• Defect resolution, working with QA team on resolution of issues
• Provide input into planning and status tracking

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Minimum 8 years of Development experience
• Self-Starter who is a very quick learner of new technology, be able to multi-task, and have strong analytical skills
• Appropriate software design, development, test experience in Java, J2EE
• Fluency in SpringBoot
• Experience in Microservices application development/deployment
• Experience in Kubernetes/RedHat OpenShift / Familiar with software development at IBM (Cloud, On-premise or both)
• Database SQL, DB2 or Oracle - understanding and experience
• Ability to demonstrate a systematic approach to problem solving / debugging
• Experience with Agile development methodologies
• Experience with Java/Eclipse/VS Code development environments
• Fluency in English
• Excellent oral and written communication, teamwork, and debugging skills
• Experience with global teams and cross-time zone collaboration, but is also able to work independently

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Experience in Finance industry
• Knowledge of JavaScript programming with REACT
• IBM Financial Transaction Manager (FTM) experience
• IBM Integration Bus (now IBM App Connect Enterprise), ESQL experience
• IBM MQ / JMS understanding and experience desirable

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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