We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer – Java with Microservices, Kafka & Investment Banking to lead our scrum team from a technology perspective. This role is critical for success, driving secure backend services, API design and full-stack application development while guiding engineers through best practices and architectural decisions in the alternative investment domain.
Responsibilities
- Define and develop guidelines, standards and processes to ensure code quality
- Ensure coding standards and other software development best practices are followed
- Participate in architecture related conversations
- Conduct code reviews and assist developers/engineers in resolving key issues
- Review design and development plans
- Hands-on development of critical components and frameworks
- Develop, enhance and maintain system components
- Collaborate with stakeholders including Executive, Product, Enablement and Design teams
- Identify, resolve and proactively communicate technology issues
- Recognize critical dependencies in advance and work toward resolution
Requirements
- 8 to 12 years of work experience
- 8+ years of experience designing and developing front end applications and APIs
- Hands-on technology leadership, preferably in full stack development
- Proficiency in Java, Spring, Spring Boot
- Expertise in Spring Data JPA, Spring Batch, Spring Integration
- Background in Microservices and Apache Kafka
- Skills in secure backend services, API design and development, including TDD and BDD
- Competency in Single Page Application design and development, secure services design
- Understanding of full stack application design and data modeling
- Familiarity with DevOps, QA practices and development task estimation
- Excellent communication, presentation and client-facing skills, with strong organization, attention to detail, team leadership and the capability to deal with ambiguity
Nice to have
- Background in Financial Services
- Knowledge of alternative investment
- Willingness to study legacy code and continuous learning