Senior Java Developer

Candidate Value Proposition
• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in a microservices architecture, Kafka, and MSSQL.

Typical Day in Role
• Development and support of a front-office trading system used for trade booking, trade execution, and pricing of derivatives trades.
• Participate in design discussions on scalability, performance, security, and Microservices best practices.
• Take ownership and responsibility for the development of products onboarding to the trading platform and be efficient with sizing and estimates for development.
• Proactively partners with business line representatives to drive improved technology solutions that support business strategy.
• Participates as a technical or business consultant in design, development, coding, testing, and debugging new packaged solutions or significant enhancements to existing applications.
• Collaborating with other developers within their team, across other teams, as well as the QAs and BAs in the team
• Onboard new features and implement them (new classes, new services, etc. need to be created)

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
• 5+ years of service-side development experience with Java, Spring, Hibernate, and Spring Boot with an emphasis on REST services.
• 3+ years of experience with relational and No SQL databases.
• Excellent Computer Science Fundamentals; Object Oriented Design; Java Design Patterns;
• Experience using Jenkins for building CI/CD pipelines and using SonarQube, Fortify, Web Inspect, and Black Duck for Code Quality
• Knowledge and working experience of automated testing – unit, integration, and functional testing
• Proficiency in using GIT for source code repository; Maven and Jenkins for build;
• Has worked in an Agile Environment

Nice-To-Have Skills:
• Previous experience developing mission critical systems (banking/financial) would be an asset
• Experience in microservices, Kafka, and/or Elastic Search
• Capital Markets domain

Soft Skills:
• Strong communication
• Fast learner
• Proactive

Degrees or Certifications:
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required