Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a
Senior Software Engineer for a
CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier
Financial Services clients in
Jersey City, NJ. We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer in our Core Brokerage group, who will be responsible for the technical aspects of designing, implementing, testing of various initiatives for high performance on-line trading related systems and applications. Candidate will need to have high energy and be highly motivated to work in a fast-paced environment. The role expects significant engineering in complex server-side applications, including new feature work, improvements on existing code, and active participation in designing and shipping the product. The incumbent will be working in Middle Office Core Platform Organization to drive product development including requirement gathering, technical solutioning.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement highly reliable, scale-able, extensible, maintainable, global, and operable products and platforms
- Draft and review architectural diagrams, interface specifications, class structures, and other design documents
- Build systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
- Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks at a given time
- Evangelize technologies, solutions, and best practices developed with the organization
- Develop department-wide technical perspectives, standards, solutions, and strategies that resolve significant product or organizational pain-points
- Participate in a network of principal engineers to share ideas, practices, and experiences
- Work closely with product management and development teams
- You must enjoy challenging engineering problems. We are looking for someone who can solve complex issues
- We value principal engineers who do enough hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside the company
- Utilize innovative approaches to solve complex technical problems and apply advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts to develop products.
Required Skills:
- Minimum of 10 years of software development experience
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Strong Proficiency with either Go or Java/J2EE Preferred
- Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, data structures, continuous integration and deployment architecture
- Knowledge on Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate and C/C++, batch scripts - perl, ksh.
- Good understanding of Web Services protocols such as REST, SOAP, IDL, gRPC and API design for extensibility and portability
- Experience writing SQL queries for Sybase / Oracle or another Relational Database is required.
- Well versed with OOD and SOA principles.
- Experience of working in UNIX environment. Knowledge of perl and UNIX based shell scripts is required
- Working knowledge of cloud, service mesh and containers
- Team player possessing strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills
- Creative thinker, self-starter, able to work on multiple projects simultaneously
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with SCRUM, Agile and iterative approaches a plus
- Solid experience in working with either Golang or Java. Knowledge in multiple languages like GO, Java, C++, Javascript will be a plus.
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SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at .
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