Java Backend Engineer

Qualifications :

Skills and Experience :

- A proven foundation in core Java and related technologies, with OO skills and design patterns.

- Track record building high quality software with design-focused and test-driven approaches.

- Hands-on experience in Java/ Spring Framework/Sprint Boot/Hibernate

- In depth understanding of concurrent programming and experience in designing high throughput, high availability, fault tolerant distributed applications.

- Prior experience in message brokers

- Understanding of relational databases is a must.

- Demonstrable experience building modern software using engineering tools such as git, maven, unit testing and integration testing tools, mocking frameworks.

- Strong analytical and software architecture design skills with an emphasis on test driven development

- Great analytical, problem-solving and communication skills

- Some experience or a real interest in finance, investment processes, and/or an ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.

Nice to have and opportunities to learn :

- A real-world practitioner of applying cloud-native design patterns to event-driven microservice architectures.

- Exposure to high scale distributed technology like Kafka, Mongo, Ignite, Redis

- Exposure to building microservices and APIs ideally with REST, Kafka or gRPC

- Experience working in an agile development team or on open-source development projects.

- Experience with optimization, algorithms or related quantitative processes.

- Experience with Cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud

- Experience with cloud deployment technology (Docker, Ansible, Terraform, etc.) is also a plus.

- Experience with DevOps and tools like Azure DevOps

- Experience with AI-related projects/products or experience working in an AI research environment.

- Knowledge of modern front-end frameworks such as React, Vue.js or Angular is a plus.

- Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud services is beneficial.

- A degree, certifications or opensource track record that shows you have a mastery of software engineering principles.