Senior Java Engineer
Company: Ciklum
Role summary
Senior Java Engineer is a full-time role at Ciklum in Kyiv, Ukraine (remote). Posted 2026-09-08. Experience level: 5-10.
- Job title
- Senior Java Engineer
- Company
- Ciklum
- Location
- Kyiv, Ukraine
- Work arrangement
- remote
- Employment type
- full-time
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Experience level
- 5-10
- Date posted
- 2026-09-08
Ciklum is looking for a Senior Java Engineer to join their remote team for a full-time role. This position offers a great opportunity to work with a dynamic company and contribute to exciting projects from anywhere.
Job description
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 the unified team to build technical capabilities required for mandatory EU compliance frameworks.
As a recently formed team, they have many opportunities and ideas for sharing value back to the customers within their continuously expanding platform. They're looking for talented and trusted engineers to help them impress their customers.
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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