Senior Java Developer

Responsibilities

• Understand complex business systems and workflows and explain them to other developers
• Exercise judgment within defined standard practices and procedures to analyze, test, design, program, debug, modify and implement system requirements
• Work closely with the business units and stakeholders on gathering and understanding system requirements
• Work closely with project management, product management and QA teams
• Plan and estimate the development for key components, applications and systems
• Balance design considerations with delivering specified requirements
• Solve business problems using applied proven technologies
• Assist in developing and ensure complete functional and non-functional specifications
• Understand complex business logic in existing systems and transition it to new technologies and systems
• Work with system operations, database administration and systems software in production support and defining system recovery procedures
• Identify, communicate, and develop solutions for root causes of program failures and defects
• Collaborate with business analysts and QA analysts in the design and execution of business feature, regression and integration testing
• Work in an agile and continuous integration environment with a command of SDLC tools
• Plan and execute unit tests to ensure the developed code is free of functional defects

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelors degree in CS or equivalent
• 5+ years of experience developing with Java technologies
• Strong working knowledge of:
• Java 8+
• Object-Oriented Design and related Design Patterns
• Distributed messaging, JMS
• Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data, Spring WebFlux, Spring Cloud frameworks)
• ORM technologies such as Hibernate, JPA
• Relational databases such as Oracle and experience with SQL, PL/SQL
• Multi-threaded server-side development
• Unit testing tools such as JUnit, Mockito, Spring Boot Test, and Karate
• Experience in Java performance tuning, debugging and memory profiling
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern development workflows using tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitHub Actions
• Experience supporting multiple projects, managing priorities, and multi-tasking effectively
• Strong collaboration and technical skills in articulating technical infrastructure and concepts
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to work well in a team environment
• Excellent communication and technical documentation skills

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Experience building HTML5 front ends using ReactJS or other similar JavaScript libraries and frameworks
• Experience developing micro-services in container-based Kubernetes platforms (OpenShift, Tanzu)
• Familiar with BPMN, Camunda, and rules engines like Drools
• Experience working with distributed cache frameworks such as Redis
• Familiar with Test Driven Development
• Exposure in the financial services technologies, particularly in futures and options
• Demonstrated contributions to open-source technologies