Senior Forward Deployment Engineer

About the role

The Senior Forward Deployment Engineer will work remotely from Poland on a project aimed at improving security, reliability and maintainability of critical banking applications. This role blends senior software engineering, DevOps, SRE and application security to deliver hands‑on modernization and automation.

Key responsibilities

• Lead technical engagements with development teams to address security, testing, release and legacy technology challenges.
• Write, debug and review production‑grade Java and TypeScript code, build automated test suites and implement CI/CD pipelines.
• Upgrade Java, JVM, NPM, Spring and related libraries; containerize applications with Docker and deploy to OpenShift.
• Automate database migrations (Liquibase), configuration management (Ansible) and dependency updates (Renovate/Dependabot).
• Introduce observability patterns such as structured logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.

Required profile

• Extensive hands‑on experience in Java/JVM development and modern Spring‑based enterprise applications.
• Proven ability to own complex technical work from assessment through production hand‑over.
• Strong client‑facing communication skills, capable of leading workshops and coaching engineers.

Required skills

• Java, JVM, Spring ecosystem, TypeScript/Node.js
• Test‑Driven Development, automated testing frameworks, CI/CD tools
• Docker, OpenShift, Linux (RHEL), Ansible, Liquibase
• Maven, Gradle, npm, Git advanced workflows
• Secure coding, vulnerability remediation, dependency‑risk analysis