Overview
Hybrid
Depends on Experience
Full Time
Skills
director
java
multi-threading
kafka
aws
testing
development
git
devops
terraform
ansible
jenkins
kubernetes
docker
containerization
Job Details
Director, Software Engineering
Salary: Open + Bonus
Location: Chicago, IL
Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*
Qualifications
- 8-10 years of experience in building large-scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
- Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 8+ is required.
- Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.
- Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis
- Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
- Experience with testing frameworks like Junit and Citrus is desirable.
- Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
- Experience following Git workflows is required.
- Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.is desirable.
- Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Manage a team of highly skilled software engineers in design and development of the new generation highly scalable resilient cloud-based Clearing applications.
- Mentor and collaborate with developers, architects, and product owners to successfully deliver business and operational functionality for internal and external users.
- Manage distributed development team, collaborate, and coordinate with vendors
- Developing solutions to complex technical challenges while coding, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and documenting the systems you develop
- Lead the efforts to optimize application performance and resilience through analysis, code refactoring, and system tuning
- Recommending architectural changes and new technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of systems and development processes.
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