The Senior Java Backend Developer is responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to applications systems analysis and programming activities.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver advanced technology projects as an individual contributor providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design, development, to testing and deployment.
- Have the ability to provide technical leadership on projects implemented using advanced knowledge of application development.
- Collaborate effectively with a large global team of software engineers, business analysts, dev-ops and support staff to deliver software solutions for the business
What you will bring to the role:
Technical Skills:
Core Java experience developing robust, scalable, and maintainable applications applying Object Oriented Design principles
- Hands-on experience with concurrent programming.
- Experience with Agile software development processes with a strong emphasis on test driven development.
- Understanding of Java internals such as class loading and memory management.
- Distributed Caching frameworks such as GridGain, Oracle Coherence, Redis or equivalent.
- Databases - RDBMS preferably Oracle, NoSQL preferably MongoDB.
- Familiarity with Linux environment including scripting skills.
- SDLC/Dev Ops - Git/BitBucket, CI/CD pipeline frameworks such as Jenkins, SonarQube, JIRA, Any secure coding toolkits.
- Experience of using AI tools like Devin, Co-Pilot for software development
- Hands on development experience of using distributed technologies Flink, or cloud technologies like micro-service .
Qualifications:
- 6-8 years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role
- Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications
- Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one area of Applications Development
- Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate
- Demonstrated leadership and project management skills
- Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Experience with Java programming language.
- Experience with Kafka
Education:
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/STEM subject Or experience in a similar role.
Requires specialist technical skills and Enterprise Risk domain knowledge to continue developing and supporting business critical Credit Risk Systems.
- Experience working in the Capital Markets domain.
- Understanding of Derivatives and Risk management
- Experience re-engineering large monolithic applications to microservices.
- Experience re-engineering complex franchise critical applications to new platforms.
- Cloud computing technologies with practical experience working with containers, microservices and large datasets (Docker,
- Kubernetes).
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Job Family Group: Technology------------------------------------------------------
Job Family:Applications Development------------------------------------------------------
Time Type:Full time------------------------------------------------------
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range:$94,300.00 - $141,500.00------------------------------------------------------
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Skills Required
- 6-8 years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role
- Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications
- Subject Matter Expert in at least one area of Applications Development
- Experience with Java programming language
- Experience working in the Capital Markets domain
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