Job responsibilities
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Adds to the 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 in Java/J2EE
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) Java/J2EE
- Expertise in Java/J2EE, low latency application development, and Core Java concepts
- Proficient in Linux, REST API, Spring Boot, Node.js, SQL, and algorithms
- Experience with large-scale distributed applications in mission-critical environments
- Familiarity with message/event-driven applications and Messaging APIs like JMS
- Understanding of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, TDD, resiliency, and application security
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., java backend, cloud, etc.)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Knowledge of AWS, FIX Protocol, and Trade lifecycle is a plus
- AWS Certification