Lead Associate Principal, Software Engineering: Java
Champaign, Champaign County, Illinois, 61825, USA
Listed on 2026-05-31
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Software Development
Software Engineer, Java Developer, Full Stack Developer, Cloud Engineer - Software
What You'll Do
Associate Principal works with business analysts, team leads and other developers. A contributor in the development of scalable resilient hybrid Cloud‑based solutions supporting critical financial risk management activities; collaborate with developers, architects and product owners to drive the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data‑driven organization. The Associate Principal will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non‑technical professionals in a project environment.
PrimaryDuties and Responsibilities
- Actively participates and contributes to requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements.
- Actively participates in design of highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable and cost‑optimized solutions.
- Primary responsibility is application design and development of next‑gen clearing applications for business requirements in agreed architecture framework and Agile environment.
- Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation.
- Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet explicit and implicit quality standards, end‑user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules and external facing reporting are properly represented.
- Participates in code reviews based on high engineering standards.
- Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen test frameworks.
- Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required.
- Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management.
- Assists with departmental and new employee training.
- 5+ years of experience in building large scale, compute and event‑driven solutions.
- Experience in Java 11+ is required.
- Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advanced patterns (like AOP) and multi‑threading is required.
- Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, Rabbit
MQ, Active
MQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable. - Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
- Must be able to write good quality code with 80% or above unit and integration tests coverage. Experience with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus is desirable.
- Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, No
SQL, Object‑based, Graph. - Experience following Git workflows is required.
- Familiarity with Dev Ops tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline is a plus.
- Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, Elastic Search, Prometheus, App Dynamics is a plus.
- ‘Get stuff done’ and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization.
- Intellectually curious and eager to learn.
- Experience in Java 11+ is required.
- Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advanced patterns (like AOP) and multi‑threading is required.
- Experience with performance optimization, profiling, and memory management.
- Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, Rabbit
MQ, Active
MQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable. - Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, No
SQL, Object‑based, Graph.
BS degree in Computer Science, or similar technical field required. Masters preferred.
Certificates or Licenses- OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification is a plus.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level is a plus.
A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work‑life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include:
- A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work.
- Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education.
- Student Loan Repayment Assistance.
- Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely.
- Generous PTO and Parental…
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