Java Software Engineer - Financial Services Firm - Chicago, Hybrid

Opportunity to work on design and development of next gen clearing applications with a focus on scalable resilient hybrid Cloud-based solutions supporting critical financial risk management activities. Collaborate with developers, architects and product owners to drive the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data-driven organization.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Application design and development of next gen clearing applications.
• Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation.
• 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.
• Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management.
• Assist with departmental and new employee training.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in building large scale, compute, and event-driven solutions.
• Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 11+ is required.
• Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.
• Experience working with various databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
• Experience following Git workflows is required.
• Experience with performance optimization, profiling, and memory management.
• Work w/distributed message brokers; Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, 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
• 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.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools. (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.is a plus)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools and frameworks (Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics a plus)

Education and/or Experience:

BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required. Masters preferred.

Certificates or Licenses:

OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification is a plus

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level is a plus