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
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) – Java, Spring, Spring Boot
- Strong hands on experience in Microservices, RESTful webservices development in Java (Spring Boot or equivalent framework)
- Experience with Message broker platforms (Kafka is a plus)
- Exposure to distributed development architecture - In depth knowledge of Cloud Native Architecture, Microservice Architecture and related stacks, and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Experience with Relational Datastores such as Oracle with understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Applicant Resiliency, and Security
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Practical cloud native experience
- Expert experience with design, development, deployment, and support of large-scale applications in a mission-critical production environment
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Familiarity with modern front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, typescript or React
- Knowledge of splunk and grafana
- Knowledge of AppDynamics and apica
- Performance Testing experience with Blazemeter / JMeter and automation experience with Cucumber / Automated Functional Testing