Senior Full Stack Developer

Job Title: Senior Full Stack Developer

Job Position Overview: Client's Investments & Capital Markets division is currently seeking a Senior Developer who is proficient in Java/JavaScript and other modern web technologies to assist us with the development of financial applications and services based on Microservices architecture and modern JS frameworks. The developer will be involved in assisting the team with new features, defect fixes, technical debts, improvements, and migration efforts for both our customer-facing and internal applications/services by applying the specialized knowledge in each stage of software development including server operations, front-end and back-end development, testing, verification, and maintenance.

Responsibilities:

Model Application Development:

• Design, develop, test, and support the applications and services within financial modeling and research division.
• Involve in fixing the defects and addressing the technical debts to ensure best software development practices are met.
• Write clean, robust, high-quality code following best practices and backed by automated unit and integration tests with full coverage.
• Coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the infrastructure.
• Assist with the infrastructure upgrades and adoption of new technologies.
• A commitment to collaborative problem-solving, sophisticated design, and quality product is important.

Monitor System's Execution in Production:

• Use automated and other tools to detect any problems in the operational environment.
• Proactively connect with technology and business to resolve operational problems.
• Implement automation requirements and other technical enhancements.

First-line Requirements Validation:

• Actively seek opportunities to continuously improve the quality of systems and processes.
• Promote industry-leading design practices for mission-critical applications.

Analysis and Communication:

• Perform designed or ad-hoc analysis in a constantly evolving and moving environment to support capital markets trading desks.
• Clearly craft and articulate messages (both written and verbal) related to Finance and Technology to a broad range of audiences.
• Seek and design ways to automate tasks; ideally using Java or other programming languages.

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of hands-on software development and programming experience with knowledge of application, data, and architecture design patterns and principles.
• Must have a strong background in developing scalable applications and services based on Java frameworks such as Spring/Spring Boot/Spring Cloud, Hibernate, Kafka, and Netflix stack for microservices.
• Must possess experience developing rich, classy, and sophisticated web UI based on Angular framework, jQuery, and Material design.
• Familiarity with REST API design, development, and documentation.
• Experience with build and integration tools, including knowledge of Gradle, Jenkins, Git, and Docker.
• Strong acumen to learn the business functions and features that need to be delivered.

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Proficiency with fundamental web front-end languages and frameworks.
• Familiarity with database technologies such as SQL Server, Sybase, Redis, MongoDB, and so on.
• Experience writing automated unit, integration, regression, performance, and acceptance tests.