Job responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on Software Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Extensive core Java (version 17 or higher) development experience with Spring-boot or similar frameworks
- Experience in developing cloud-native applications (12-factor app) with demonstrated implementation of Restful microservices, containers , resilient and scalable platforms
- Experience in Test Driven Development using JUnit, Mojito or similar
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes or related container platform
- Experience with Cloud native software deployment ideally AWS, Kubernetes,
- Experience with message bus technologies such as Kafka or AMPS
- Experience developing open source libraries or internal libraries that are integrated into applications by other internal teams
- Experience working on high throughput mission critical high performance STP platforms
- Experience with two or more database technologies like Oracle , Cassandra or Mongo DB
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience working in a DevOps - focused environment previously with advanced understanding of DevOps principles as a plus.
- Prior experience with Settlement / Clearing / Post Trade Processing platforms a big plus
- Prior experience in the financial industry