Software Engineer - Java

Our client operates in the Financial sector, with its headquarters rooted strongly in the United States. It has its branches spread to more than 160 countries, providing employment to more than 200k people all over the world. They fall in the Top 15 largest Banks in the United States. Its core business is to provide various Banking and Financial services to its clients. It is known to have one of the biggest balance sheet banks in the world (among others) aiding it to offer 360-degree financial services to its clients.

Responsibilities:

• Code contributing leader of an Agile team, working to deliver sprint goals, as well as conduct personnel duties for team (e.g., performance evaluations, hiring, promotions and disciplinary actions). 
• Design, document, and develop world-class enterprise applications leveraging the latest technologies and design patterns. 
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over team resources, budget management and planning, while monitoring end results. 
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within your own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues. 
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards. 
• Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals. 
• Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources. 
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties, as necessary. 
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Client, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards. 

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer/Developer using Java. 
• Experience mentoring and providing technical leadership for teams of 5 or more developers. 
• Multiple years of experience with software engineering best practices (unit testing, automation, design patterns, peer review, etc.). 
• Clear understanding of Data Structures and Object Oriented Principles using Java. 
• Multiple years of experience architecting and building horizontally scalable, highly available, highly resilient, and low latency applications  
• Multiple years of experience with Cloud-native development and Container Orchestration tools (Serverless, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.). 
• Multiple years of experience on Service Oriented and MicroServices architectures, including REST and GraphQL implementations. 
• Multiple years of experience with frameworks like Spring Boot, Quarkus, Micronaut, or Vert.x. 
• Exposure to Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, either on-premise or public cloud (i.e., Tekton, Harness, CircleCI, Cloudbees Jenkins, etc.) 
• Multiple years of experience with agile and iterative software delivery. 
• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience. 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Exposure to Cloud infrastructure both on-premise and public cloud (i.e., OpenShift, AWS, etc.) 
• Exposure to event-driven design and architecture (i.e., Kafka, Spark Flink, etc.) 
• Exposure to API Management tools 
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (i.e., Terraform, Cloudformation, etc.) 
• Exposure to Security, Observability, and Monitoring tools (i.e., Grafana Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.) 
• Exposure to database concepts (RDBMS, NoSQL) and web-based technologies (Angular/React) is a plus