Engineering Tech Lead

Antal is a leading recruitment and HR advisory company, present in Poland since 1996 and later expanded to the Czech Republic and Hungary. Across the CEE region, they employ around 150 professionals delivering specialist and executive recruitment, employee outsourcing, HR consulting, employer branding, and market research. Their division-based structure combines deep industry expertise with functional specialisation to provide tailored solutions for companies in every sector.

• At least 2 years of proven technical team leadership experience including delivery leadership and mentoring.
• 8+ years of enterprise application development with strong backend engineering expertise.
• Hands-on experience with microservices and micro-database architecture.
• Experience with event-driven systems.
• Expert in Java and Spring Framework (Boot/Data/REST/Security/Profiles).
• Front-end experience with ReactJS and TypeScript, able to contribute meaningfully.
• API specification/documentation using Swagger / OpenAPI.
• Strong automated testing practice with tools like JUnit, mocking frameworks, H2, HttpUnit.
• Experience writing/supporting batch programs.
• Strong appreciation for logging and error handling in production.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience in cloud services development.
• Familiarity with code scanning tools to resolve security, quality, and standards findings.
• Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum teams using JIRA and Confluence/Wiki.

Nice to have:

• Risk & Compliance domain knowledge, ideally Model Risk Management.
• Experience with Spring Integration and/or Spring Batch.
• Knowledge of WebSockets / SSE or binary protocols.
• Experience with workflow engines/libraries such as BPMN, Flowable, Activiti, or Drools.
• Working knowledge of micro-frontends.

• Provide technical leadership, take ownership of delivery, and support team members daily.
• Design, build, and support backend services and APIs using Java and Spring (Boot/Data/REST/Security).
• Create solution designs and supporting documentation, including architecture and UML diagrams.
• Deliver end-to-end features, including React + TypeScript UI contributions.
• Implement microservices and micro-database patterns with clear API contracts.
• Build integrations using event-driven architecture.
• Develop workflow-driven capabilities using BPMN and integrate workflow components.
• Engineer for production readiness: logging, error handling, resilience, and observability.
• Develop and maintain batch processing workloads.
• Drive quality through automated unit/integration testing, code scanning, and remediation.
• Containerise and deploy using Docker and Kubernetes, supporting cloud services development.
• Work in an Agile (Scrum) model using JIRA and documentation tools like Confluence/Wiki.