Senior / Expert Java Developer - Safekeeping & Trading Operations

Job ID: 4759

Welcome to Group Technology, where we pride ourselves on engineering solutions and direct Nordea’s transformation by providing a holistic technological view and structured understanding of the bank, and its surrounding environment to enable the Customer Vision and the Business Strategy.

We are looking for a versatile person who likes working with code and people. We offer full-time on-site employment with flexibility for working from home according to Nordea guidelines.

Nordea is a place where traditions meet tomorrow. We're not just a bank, we're a tech employer on a mission to evolve finance securely and responsibly. Together, we impact millions of people’s daily lives by ensuring they can access our solutions anytime, anywhere, while safeguarding their personal data and wealth. Join us in making an impact on the banking industry.

About our team

Meet the Safekeeping and Corporate Actions Development team. Our role is to develop and modernise integrations of the IMSecurities Safekeeping & Corporate Action system with the rest of Nordea’s IT landscape. The application is a central part of Nordea’s trading lifecycle and supports safekeeping and corporate actions processes.

The Safekeeping system is a vendor solution. The team focuses on components and microservices around the Safekeeping solution, connected in a decoupled way with Kafka, IBM MQ, REST services and API Gateway to the Safekeeping platform and other Nordea systems. The current landscape includes around 20 microservices, with new services added regularly.

The application is in the roll-out stage across the Nordics, and the broader team expansion strategy is to increase development capacity with versatile software engineers who can contribute across development, analysis, integration, automation and business-domain understanding.

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Design, implement, and optimize integration layer surrounding IMSecurities, including Domain API, microservices, event-driven integrations.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD and test automation setup.
• Improve engineering quality through automating regressions tests in Java, writing code reviews, and systematic reduction of technical debt.
• Work across the full delivery chain: clarify requirements from business, analyse business and system flows, translate business needs into technical design and specifications, implement, test, deploy and support production solutions.
• Support knowledge sharing and mentoring in the team, especially by helping less experienced developers understand design choices, integration patterns and production-quality engineering practices.
• Use AI-assisted development and automation in a responsible way to improve productivity, quality and learning, and help spread practical engineering practices across the team.

Who you are

This role suits you if you're fluent in Java, SQL, and English with 6+ years' enterprise software development experience (10+ for Expert role) as a software developer in large scale enterprises.

This is the right role for you if you are fluent in Java, SQL, and English; and have at least 6 years’ experience (10 years for Expert role) as a software developer in large scale enterprises.

You have broad technical curiosity and willingness to learn the trading and safekeeping business domain. You do not need to start as a securities domain expert, but you should want to understand why the system exists, how trade lifecycle processes work, and how technology decisions affect operational risk, resilience and business outcomes.

While you are primarily a Java developer skilled in backend development to deliver complex enterprise solutions, you also enjoy contributing in analysis, integration design, testing, DevOps, troubleshooting, documentation and stakeholder dialogue.

You will step into IT analyst responsibilities when needed to understand business processes, ask structured questions, document flows and dependencies, and help turn trading-domain requirements into implementable solutions.

You take ownership of problems, also when the answer is not obvious, and you are comfortable asking questions until the business and technical context is clear.

Your background and skills include:

• Java, preferably from large-scale enterprise systems.
• Spring Boot and Spring Integration.
• SQL and relational databases, preferably Oracle.
• Kafka, IBM MQ, REST API
• Build and delivery tooling such as Maven, Git and CI/CD pipelines, preferably Bamboo.
• Testing practices using tools such as JUnit and Testcontainers.
• Ability to work with business requirements, system documentation, logs, data flows and production issues.

It would be ideal if you also:

• Experience from banking, trading, custody, settlement, corporate actions or another highly regulated domain.
• Experience with cloud-ready application design.
• Experience mentoring other developers or acting as a technical lead, code reviewer or design sparring partner.
• Practical experience with AI-assisted development tools, test automation, static code analysis and other productivity-enhancing engineering practices.

What we offer

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

​Submit your application no later than 31/10/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Zbigniew Stanislaw Piotrowski at [email protected]. Please note that due to the summer period, we will begin reviewing applications at the beginning of August.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.