Java Developer

Overview

Job Description:

Job Overview:
We are seeking an experienced backend engineer to join our Middle Office Core Platform Organization. This team owns systems, services and initiatives to provide financial products to our customers across digital channels. This organization is responsible for building financial products, platform capabilities and components that are used by millions of customers daily.

As a backend engineer, you will be working in the Middle Office Core Platform Organization to drive product development and modernization initiatives. You are a builder with a deep understanding of tools and technologies to build products that deliver business outcomes and obsess about the customer. You will be responsible for designing and programming a small module or a large component and designing a feature or set of features.

• Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding
• Work closely with peers and engage in a fast-paced technical design and development team
• Execute in a fast-paced delivery mode and focus on delivering tasks to meet the product release goal
• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
• Understand the whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module
• Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
• Possess advanced domain knowledge and show great customer focus. Expert in processes / methodologies and skilled in build, release & deployment processes
• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing
• Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in STEM Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• 7-15 years of relevant professional experience or 5 years with master’s or 2 years with PhD

Technical Expertise:

• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and coding principles
• Hands-on experience in microservices architecture and development, databases such as Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, Postgre
  
  SQL etc.
• 7 – 15 years’ experience in Java
• Preferred experience in Service Mesh, Containers and Kubernetes technologies
• Preferred hands-on experience in building cloud-based software leveraging cloud and open-source technology and frameworks
• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Experience in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices
• Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and can implement them using language of choice
• Preferred understanding and experience in one of the public clouds (AWS, Azure) native services
• Experience in agile software development

Business Acumen:

• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective

Leadership:

• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
• Proactively identifies and addresses customer issues in product
• Shares knowledge, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

Personal Attributes:

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
• Open to take new responsibility, learn new technologies or systems to deliver business value
• C++ and Golang is a plus