Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software EngineerChicago, IL, Dallas, TX, or Jersey City, NJ Hybrid – onsite 2-3 days per week, WFH 2-3 days per weekPosition 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 environmentThoroughly 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 standardsWrites 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 requiredCommunicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and managementExperience integrating modelling libraries required. Risk analytics technology implementations experience a plusA 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 BootExperience developing applications in any cloud environment, AWS preferredPrevious experience with Fintech development or financial servicesExperience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, graphNice to have:Familiarity with high-speed distributed computing frameworks involving MapReduce technologies, like Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, Apache FlinkAWS experience - the more the better, this is what they'll be using:VPCs, S3, EC2, ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI, IAM, Security groupsWorking 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