Senior Java Developer​/Architect

Job Title:
Senior Java Developer/Architect

Location:
Montreal, QC

Duration:
Long term

Responsibilities description:

• Define architecture and design for a resilient, scalable, and observable system.

• Perform hands-on development in an agile squad working with product owners, business analysts and other developers.

• Implement automated testing, leveraging unit tests and integration tests to validate every feature.

• Guide more junior developers helping them to adopt the best design, coding, and testing practices.

• Drive the team to follow the best Dev Ops practices.

• Focus on automation at every level of the SDLC.

• Understand the requirements, help defining milestones and backlog based on business priorities, team capability and velocity.

• Act as an end-to-end owner ensuring the system is developed, tested, deployed as planned and is performing as expected in production environments.

• Contribute to team standards and improving processes.

Skills required (essential):

• Hands-on, with 7+ years' experience in building distributed systems applying agile practices.

• Sound understanding of microservice architecture and design patterns, system resiliency, scalability, security, and observability.

• Ability to design and build automated test harnesses for microservices.

• Experience in designing and implementing messaging- and rest- based middleware and performing databases modelling.

• Strong working knowledge of core Java and Spring frameworks - including spring-boot and testing.

• Knowledge of Dev Ops practices and tools.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Skills desired (recommended):

• Understanding of Cloud-based application development, preferably with Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Familiarity with Kafka.

• Experience Angular UI development framework.

• Experience coordinating and mentoring a development team.

• Prior experience in Fin Tech application development.

• Experience with working in a global delivery team.