Senior Java Engineer

Grow your career as a Senior Java Engineer with an innovative global bank in Jersey City, NJ. Contract role with strong possibility of extension. Will require working a hybrid schedule 3 days onsite per week.

Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.

Contract Duration: 12+ Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of hands on development experience.
• 7+ years of working as a lead developer on Java backends. Very strong experience on Java development experience and performance tuning.
• 5+ years of working as a Big Data Developer.
• Linux system experience.
• Hands on skills in Java, any flavor of Spark, Hadoop, Linux, Bash, NoSQL, MPP Databases and Columnar file formats, CI/CD, DevOps understanding, and Containerization.
• Worked as an architect on multi-tier applications, has design experience, and hands on coding skills.
• Strong understanding of the big data framework and understands Spark, Hive, HDFS, Impala, Presto and can query and tune those systems.
• Understanding of latest Java versions along with Spring Framework, Executor patterns, and Lambda. Deep understanding of data structures also required along with basic principles of Java.
• Understanding of Linux, Bash and basic scripting along basics like Unix group, host group, etc.
• Basic understanding of RDBMS vs NO SQL vs Columnar Databases. Understanding of the file formats like Parquet, AVRO, ORC, and Iceberg.
• Basic understanding of basics of Microservice Architecture, Containerization, and Orchestration.
• Basic understanding of Helm, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Gradle, and Maven.
• Basic understanding of the telemetry specifically open telemetry, ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Financial industry experience.

What You Will Be Doing

• Implement application features/function using Java , Spring , Big Data technologies.
• Tune and optimize JAVA processes using various techniques such as JVM tuning like heap dumps, thread dumps and JDK dynamic monitoring.
• Tune various Big Data processes for egress/ingress optimization, monitoring, scaling.
• Participate in daily scrums and application roadmap meetings. Present ideas to improve application framework and own the execution.
• Ensure the application development standards are maintained and enhanced related to readability, testability and continuous integration.