Engineer

Description:

SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER - JAVA

Our client is a fully independent, global management and technology consultancy. For 20+ years we have combined innovative thinking with deep industry knowledge to deliver business consulting, digital transformation and technology services to Finance and Energy markets. Our collaborative and efficient approach helps clients reduce costs and manage risk and regulatory change while increasing revenues. We are thinkers, innovators, and disruptors. We are small enough to care but large enough to matter.

The Role

We are looking for engineers who want to play a key part in supporting the evolution of the Financial Services industry one project at a time. You will be expected to be a strong team player who prides themselves on delivering modern, first class cloud based platforms through practicing best in class Agile ways of working at all times.

As a Senior Engineer, you will:

Demonstrate practical experience of engineering best practices, while being obsessed with continuous improvement.

Have deep technical knowledge of two or more technologies and is curious to learn other parts of the stack.

Have experience delivering software/technology projects leveraging Agile methodologies.

Have personally made valuable contributions to products, solutions and teams and can articulate the value to customers.

Have played a role in the delivery of critical business applications and ideally customer facing applications.

Have the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence.

Have an awareness and understanding of new technologies being used in finance and other industries and loves to experiment. Have a passion for being part of the engineering team that is forming the future of finance.

Skills & Expertise

You will have experience working with the following Methodologies/Technologies;

Essentials:

Excellent knowledge of Java 8+, Spring Boot, Gradle, Maven, Mockito, Microservice architecture

Excellent knowledge of Object-oriented programming and familiarity with functional programming languages

Excellent understanding of collections and concurrency in Java

Experience in working with restful APIs

Good understanding of different databases (Relational and NoSQL)

Expert knowledge in the unit test, static code analysis and BDD/TDD

Experience in continuous integration with Git, Jenkins, Nexus

Practices Agile methodologies

Able to do code reviews/ mentor and train junior developers

Write highly available, maintainable and secure code

Good understanding of Web and Architectural design patterns

Great understanding of the Solid Principles, OWASP, CAP Theorem and Distributed Systems Design

Stakeholder Management and able to communicate well to all the team members

Experience with container technologies including Docker / Kubernetes

Desirable:

Knowledge of Terraform and Event-driven architecture

Golang

Participated in redesigning a monolith system to a set of microservices

Knowledge of serverless functions like AWS Lambda/Azure Functions/GCP functions

Have experience in Messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ etc.)

Good understanding of Service Security Protocols (OAuth2, SAML etc.)

Practical experience on at least one cloud

Experience in integration with 3rd party applications and vendors

Experience in integration of QA automation tools