Senior Java Developer

Project Description

This project is for market risk for one of the leading Australian banks.

Our Customer is a leading bank in Australia that provides a front-to-back integrated platform for straight-through processing and risk management.

This is a multi-year initiative where different projects run in concurrence under the program's variety of milestones. These streams include new product initiatives, new entity roll-outs, and regulatory compliances.

We will have key roles in projects such as managing the scope, design, and delivering requirements from front to back office.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate a systematic and disciplined architecture, system design, and programming approach following a standard software development lifecycle

• Meticulous attention to detail and a strong focus on clear and practical documentation

• Work closely with senior management, the Development Manager, the Project Manager, and a team of developers.

• Design, Code, Unit Test, and support Software components

• Deliver quality software in time following standard software development processes

• Analyze problems raised in software development or production environments and provide timely solutions

• Develop, prepare, and maintain system documentation, including program descriptions, operational procedures, etc.

• Act as the second line of support during production problems.

Technical Roles and Responsibilities:

• JDK 8 (Migrating to the latest version)

• Microservice architecture patterns

• Advanced Spring Boot / Cloud (ZUUL Service Proxy, RabbitMQ, Logging using Spring Cloud Sleuth, Zipkin, Caching, Feign Client, Circuit Breaker)

• Security frameworks and concepts (Spring Security, JWT)

• Deployment (Jenkins, Openshift, Udeploy, AWS)

• Strong experience with SQL and database persistence frameworks (JPA, Hibernate, Oracle 11g onwards)

• Strong experience in setting up test automation and unit testing (JUnit, Mockito)

• Experience in BDD testing and writing automation stories using Cucumber

• Demonstrable expertise in performance tuning

• Experience with build tools and commands (using Maven, progressing towards Gradle)

• Experience in DDD using AXON framework (or Kafka or similar)

• Experience with code versioning tools (Git, SVN, Mercurial)

• Exposure to cloud, containers, and container orchestration via Docker, Kubernetes

• Experience working in a fast-paced agile environment

• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

• Demonstrable designing and implementing effective solutions to challenging requirements

Desirable:

• Familiarity with No-SQL (MongoDB or similar)

• High-level understanding of code analysis tooling (SonarQube, FortyFy code scan)

• Experience troubleshooting through monitoring tools (Splunk, Dynatrace)

• Domain knowledge: Banking environments

Skills

Must have

• 7+ years of experience

• Strong core Java 8 and higher

• Good experience in frameworks Spring MVC/Spring Boot with REST Web services

• Good expertise in ORM frameworks like Hibernate, JPA etc.

• Multi-threaded programming and OO design

• Shell/Bash scripting

• Building high throughput low latency java software including performance tuning and optimization to achieve microsecond latencies.

• Passionate, self-starter with the ability to work on problems from inception to completion

• Strong communication skills

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

• Ability to collaborate within Markets Front Office, support and trading stakeholders

• Strong academic background, preferably in computer science

• Java 8+, Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Hibernate Microservices Event streaming/ middleware / big data solutions (Kafka/ MQ/Apache Camel/ Spark/ Hadoop)

• Infrastructure as code - experienced with Containerisation, Config, and Orchestration tools (Kubernetes/ Ansible/ Chef/ Puppet) (could be common for Dev and QA)

Nice to have

7+ years of experience in end-to-end design & development lifecycle in a complex environment which will require integration with a number of systems

• Knowledge of automated testing techniques using Junit, Jest, Selenium, WebDriverIO, Cucumber Framework

• Knowledge about Single Page application, ReactJs, Redux and NodeJs

• Knowledge of messaging system such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Active MQ etc.

• Experience in Reactive programming and Event driven architecture.

• Strong experience in cloud computing platforms like Amazon Web Services is preferred

• Financial Services and /or Banking experience including Capital Markets exposure is preferred

Languages

English: A1 Beginner

Seniority

Senior