Senior Software Engineer
Chicago, IL, Dallas, TX, or Jersey City, NJ Hybrid – onsite 2-3 days per week, WFH 2-3 days per week
Position Summary:
This role is open with a financial services company. The Senior Software Engineer works with business analysts, team leads and other developers. A major contributor in architecture design and development of scalable resilient hybrid Cloud-based solutions supporting critical financial risk management activities; mentor and collaborate with developers, architects, and product owners to drive the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data-driven organization; lead through innovative strategic thinking in building data solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Actively participates in design of highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable and cost optimized solutions.
- Primarily responsibility is application design and development of streaming application 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: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented.
- Performs thorough code-reviews based on high engineering standards
- Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen DevOps frameworks.
- Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements.
- 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
- Experience integrating modelling libraries required. Risk analytics technology implementations experience a plus
- A major influencer & strategic thinker, this person should also mentor developers and collaborate across multiple cross functional team to achieve the desired outcome.
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience with Java - current with Java 8 and/or Java 11+
- Strong experience with Spring, Spring MVC, Hibernate, and/or Spring Boot
- Experience developing applications in any cloud environment, AWS preferred
- Previous experience with Fintech development or financial services
- Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, graph
Nice to have:
- Familiarity with high-speed distributed computing frameworks involving MapReduce technologies, like Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink
- AWS experience - the more the better, this is what they'll be using:
- VPCs, S3, EC2, ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI, IAM, Security groups
- Working knowledge of DevOps tools: Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Nexus/Artifactory and CI/CD pipeline etc.
- Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics
