Associate Principal, Backend Java Developer

***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***

***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role***

***NO CONTRACTORS OR CONSULTANTS***

A prestigious company is looking for an Associate Principal, Backend Java Developer. This company needs someone with 7-10 years of experience focused on backend java development, Java 11, Kafka, Golang, Multithreading, AWS, etc. They will be working in a real-time and highly regulated financial environment.

Responsibilities:

• Actively participates in design of highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable and cost optimized solutions.
• Primary responsibility is application design and development of next gen clearing applications 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.
• Participates in code-reviews based on high engineering standards
• Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen test frameworks.
• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required.

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required. Masters preferred.
• 7-10 years of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
• Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 11+ is required.
• Experience with app development in Golang.
• Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.
• Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, IBM MQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable.
• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
• Must be able to write good quality code with 80% or above unit and integration tests coverage. Experience with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus is desirable.
• Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
• Experience following Git workflows is required.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.is a plus.
• Experience with performance optimization, profiling, and memory management.