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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Strong experience in Core Java, Object Oriented, RDBMS (Oracle), SQL, Spring, ORM (JPA/Hibernate) and Unix Scripts with over 10 + years experience
- Experience in architecting and building secure, highly available, resilient, scalable systems leveraging clustering and load balancing of web/app servers and messaging systems
- Knowledge of container-based development, orchestration, microservices frameworks, and tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Spring Boot, Swagger)
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Hands-on end-to-end project delivery responsibilities
- Ensure the team delivers timely key milestones supporting a clear roadmap and requirements
- Clarify and defend architecture and design decisions and ensure they are practical and feasible to implement by the team.
- Partner with technology peers and product owners and lead collaborative efforts to ensure a successful end-to-end project delivery
- Ability to translate functional requirements to technical design and requirements
- Perform code reviews, develop and review test scenarios in collaboration with QA
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Strong understanding of Agile methodology and ceremonies leveraging SDLC tools to improve development and testing efficiency (JIRA, Jenkins, GIT, JUnit, Selenium, Lint) is a plus
- Experience in Cloud and Container based development (Gaia, Kube) is a plus
- Experience using NoSQL / BigData Stores (Cassandra, Elastic Search, Cloudera Stack or H-Base) is a plus
- Banking and payments domain background is a plus