Are you an open-minded and dedicated professional who revels in intellectually rigorous environments? Do you hold a high bar for the quality of your work and react to a mission-critical problem in an excellent way? Can you anticipate complications and formulate solutions to unblock the progress of the project? If it sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join EPAM as a Solution Architect.

Our client is one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, managing investments for a wide array of institutional clients, from charitable foundations to foreign governments and central banks. We are looking for a Solution Architect for the Lang team. The team is developing a DSL based on Scala. Users of the technology in the Department are extremely sophisticated investors who are also technically savvy and work in a deep partnership model with the engineers. Our goal is to build highly functional, beautiful, and intuitive technologies for these processes, which ultimately drive, scale, and enable our investment processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead designs of major software components, systems, and features (including patterns, NFRs)
• Collaborate in design discussions to provide business users with technical solutions and translate requirements into a detailed architectural blueprint
• Define and evolve the team's core set of best practices, anticipate potential issues, and design for flexibility and resilience
• Work closely with the business to understand key challenges and pain points, devising solutions to meet them. Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Create component- and object-level designs, as well as production, troubleshooting, and documentation of high-quality code
• Ensure quality through defining and enforcing coding standards, guidelines, and best practices, focusing on robust, maintainable, and scalable systems

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software development experience in technically rigorous environments holding extremely high bars for their engineers
• Strong computer science fundamentals with a mastery of backend platform-level development
• Mathematics knowledge and understanding
• Experience with complex backend systems and a fluency with contemporary programming languages, patterns, and architectures
• Experience in Scala development
• Scala compiler plugin experience and syntax development
• Excellent design skills (with the security focus, OOD, SOLID, GRASP, KISS, YAGNI, DRY, etc.)
• Familiarity with CI/CD, SDLC, Agile, and Design patterns
• Strong algorithmic and debugging skills
• Ability to dive into a complicated codebase without supervision
• Strong soft skills such as stress tolerance, open-mindedness, proactiveness, preciseness and meticulousness
• Ability to inspire and guide teams while fostering collaboration
• Excellent communication skills (English - B2+/C1) to be able to effectively explain technical ideas to diverse audiences

We offer

• Private health insurance
• EPAM Employees Stock Purchase Plan
• 100% paid sick leave
• Referral Program
• Professional certification
• Language courses

EPAM is a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company with over 52,650 EPAMers in more than 55 countries and regions. Since 1993, our multidisciplinary teams have been helping make the future real for our clients and communities around the world. In 2018, we opened an office in Spain that quickly grew to over 1,450 EPAMers distributed between the offices in Málaga and Madrid as well as remotely across the country. Here you will collaborate with multinational teams, contribute to numerous innovative projects, and have an opportunity to learn and grow continuously.

• Why Join EPAM
• WORK AND LIFE BALANCE. Enjoy more of your personal time with flexible work options, 24 working days of annual leave and paid time off for numerous public holidays.
• CONTINUOUS LEARNING CULTURE. Craft your personal Career Development Plan to align with your learning objectives. Take advantage of internal training, mentorship, sponsored certifications and LinkedIn courses.
• CLEAR AND DIFFERENT CAREER PATHS. Grow in engineering or managerial direction to become a People Manager, in-depth technical specialist, Solution Architect, or Project/Delivery Manager.
• STRONG PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY. Join a global EPAM community of highly skilled experts and connect with them to solve challenges, exchange ideas, share expertise and make friends.