Software Engineering - Java Developer

Job description

The successful candidate will work in the Corporate and Investment Bank Technology group as an expert developer. This position is for a Java Developer to join an Agile team. The application will be designed as a suite of micro-services that will be cloud-enabled and will leverage a high level of test automation and deployment automation to achieve Continuous Integration and Delivery.

The team is a cross-functional team responsible for the end-to-end, full stack development of the application. While each team member has a primary skill set, they are also expected to learn and contribute to areas outside of their primary skill set. The team is highly collaborative and values continuous improvement and open communication.

You will be expected to be a well regarded and respected individual contributor; possess strong inter-personal skills, as well as proven track record of application development with skills in Java, distributed cache technology and building scalable robust systems. In return you will have opportunity to gain exposure to designing, developing and deploying applications to the internal/external cloud.

The day to day activities of the role will encompass the full project lifecycle, including:
· Writing mission critical software in the core technologies listed below
· Creating Automated Unit Tests using Flexible/Open Source Frameworks
· Digesting Business Requirements and designing new modules/functionality in partnership with SMEs
· Ability to understand business processes and map them to solutions
· Working with global team of developers; operational business SMEs and users

Desired profile

Essential:
·  Excellent Core Java (version 8) with knowledge of Java 1.8 features
·  Java Frameworks i.e. Spring; Hibernate
·  Spring Boot
·  RESTful microservices
·  No-SQL database technologies; preferably Apache Cassandra
·  Log Management with Splunk or ELK
·  Apache Tomcat
·  Experience working with a Distributed Cache (Gemfire, Hazel, Memcache)
·  Multi-threaded Programming and Transaction Handling (JMS, Database)
·  Source code control software (e.g. Git, subversion),
·  Google Protocol buffers or similar binary message transport
·  Experience working on high throughput mission critical high performance platforms which have low error rates
·  Some RDBMS experience exposure
Desirable (but not essential):
·  Cloud foundry or Amazon AWS experience
·  Experience with Micro Services, Service Orientated Architectures
·  Track record delivering in Investment Bank Environment
·  UNIX shell scripting (1 year +)
·  MQ/JMS
·  Cucumber
·  Selenium
·  Jenkins
·  Functional Programming Languages such as Groovy