Senior Java Front End Developer

***We are unable to sponsor for this permanent full-time role***

***Position is bonus eligible***

Prestigious Financial Institution is currently seeking a Senior Java Front End Developer. Candidate will be responsible for the development and delivery of business features in the front end applications, integrating with a variety of upstream data-sources and presenting data through the user interface, all while enriching and advancing the platform. This software must achieve a blend of data-rich presentation, performance, user experience, and the capacity to support the busiest trading days in the world economy with rock-solid reliability. The candidate must be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and proactively engage in technical decision making to achieve these objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to design, technical direction and architecture including collaborating with various teams to build fit for purpose solutions
• Applies expert knowledge of Java, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS, Angular 2.0 or ReactJS and middle-ware technologies in independently designing and developing key services with a focus on continuous integration and delivery
• Participates in code reviews, proactively identifying and mitigating potential issues and defects as well as assisting with continuous improvement
• Drives continuous improvement efforts by identifying and championing practical means of reducing time to market while maintaining high quality
• Must be a willing self-starter, independent and comfortable with a fast paced, dynamic environment
• A team player who assists the team as required to achieve collective goals & delivery milestones including knowledge-share
• Embraces and advocates for Agile best practices for software development discipline (be true to Agile Manifesto)
• Actively participates in creation and review of both business and technical user stories, providing constructive feedback and input on both work effort estimation as well as architecture/design improvements
• Integrating disparate data from REST and WebSocket services within a cohesive user interface
• Participating in innovative design and proof of concepts with emerging technologies and solutions
• Embrace industry best practices like continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, TDD etc
• Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented
• Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen DevOps frameworks
• Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements
• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required
• Assist with departmental and new employee training

Qualifications:

• [Required] 7+ years of Front End, User Experience, development
• [Required] 5+ years of experience in JavaScript skills
• [Required] 3+ years of experience in React application development
• [Required] 5+ years of hands-on HTML5/CSS3 experience
• [Required] Experience with Java and/or Python
• [Required] Experience with popular Javascript frameworks such as React, Node JS, Vue, Angular 2.0
• [Required] Experience of working with websockets, HTTP 1.1 and HTTP/2
• [Required] Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON RPC
• [Required] Ability to write clean, bug-free code that is easy to understand and easily maintainable
• [Required] Experience with BDD methodologies & automated acceptance testing
• [Required] 7+ years hands-on experience in Java required, including good understanding of Java fundamentals such as Memory Model, Runtime Environment, Concurrency and Multithreading
• [Required] Past/Current experience of 3+ years working on a large scale cloud native project (platform: Unix/Linux, Type of Systems: event-driven / transaction processing / high performance computing) as Technical Lead. These experiences should include developing / architecting core libraries or framework used by the platform to support fundamental services like storage, alert notifications, security, etc.
• [Required] Experience with cloud technologies and migrations using public cloud vendor preferably using cloud foundational services like AWS s VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
• [Required] Experience with distributed message brokers using Kafka
• [Required] Experience with high speed distributed computing frameworks such as AWS EMR, Hadoop, HDFS, S3, MapReduce, Apache Spark, Apache Hive, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink etc.
• [Required] Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph
• [Required] Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc
• [Required] Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics
• [Required] BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field
• [Preferred] Masters degree in Computer Science

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