JAVA LEAD DEVELOPER

Essential Responsibilities:

• Be a lead engineer collaborating with product managers, designers, and agilists in a modern "quad" structure.
• Champion modernization efforts-think Java, React, APIs, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and continuous delivery.
• Drive product discovery and experimentation to validate ideas before building.
• Keep close to the customer-understand their pain points, fuel innovation, and deliver delightful experiences.
• Promote engineering excellence through pairing, cross-training, and inner sourcing.
• Responsible for designing, developing, testing, operating and maintaining products
• Takes full stack ownership by consistently writing production-ready and testable code
• Consistently creates optimal design adhering to architectural best practices; considers scalability, reliability and performance of systems/contexts affected when defining technical designs
• Performs analysis on failures, propose design changes, and encourage operational improvements
• Makes sound design/coding decisions keeping customer experience in the forefront
• Takes feedback from code review and apply changes to meet standards
• Conducts code reviews to provide guidance on engineering best practices and compliance with development procedures
• Accountable for ensuring all aspects of product development follow compliance and security best practices
• Exhibits relentless focus in software reliability engineering standards embedded into development standards
• Embraces emerging technology opportunities and contributes to the best practices in support of the bank's technology transformation
• Contributes to a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous improvement
• Reviews tasks critically and ensures they are appropriately prioritized and sized for incremental delivery; anticipates and communicates blockers and delays before they require escalation

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Five to six years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Strong hands on experience with Java Spring Boot
• Experienced in building REST-API and Microservices from scratch
• Experienced with Containerization - Docker, Kubernetes, Istio
• Some experience with Open-source Streaming - Kafka
• Experienced with Open-source Databases - PostgreSQL, Cassandra
• Experience in working with Open-source Flow-based frameworks - Flink, NiFi/Airflow
• ReactJS for Web-development experience - good to have
• Effective problem-solving and analytical skills
• Experienced with native mobile application development