Lead Java Developer

Grow your career as a Lead Java Developer with an innovative global bank in New York, NY. Contract role with strong possibility of extension. Will require working a hybrid schedule 2-3 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. Will build product capabilities for the front office in New York. 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

• Bachelor's degree/University degree.
• 8 to 10+ years of strong hands-on development experience using Java including expertise with Spring or another dependency injection framework.
• 5+ years of experience in developing and maintaining highly scalable, real-time, low latency, high-volume, scalable microservices.
• Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications.
• Experience with real-time messaging middleware (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Solace, Tibco, etc.).
• Experience working with multi-threaded applications.
• Strong software development fundamentals, data structures, design patterns, Object-Oriented programming, architecture, algorithms, and problem-solving skills.

Essential Skills:

• Strong Java Core & Enterprise
• Understanding of capital markets.
• JMS, TIBCO, Kafka
• Oracle RDBMS
• Unix and scripting skills (Bash/PERL)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Test-driven development, including Unit and End-to-End Testing.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Master's degree.
• Skills:
  • Knowledge of the Securities Lending.
  • Experience with system performance tuning and low latency Java programming.
  • React
  • Experience with In-Memory Datastore/Cache libraries (Redis, Apache Ignite, Gemfire).

What You Will Be Doing

• Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design.
• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards.
• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint.
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals.
• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as necessary.
• Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups.
• Assist in third line support during core trading hours.