Senior Software Engineer

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