Position is bonus eligible
Prestigious Financial Institution is currently seeking a Senior Java Golang Software Engineer with strong Kubernetes experience. Candidate will be involved in the development of scalable resilient hybrid Cloud-based solutions supporting critical financial risk management activities; collaborate with developers, architects and product owners to drive the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data-driven organization. The Associate Principal will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in a project environment.
Responsibilities:
- Actively participates in design of highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable and cost optimized solutions.
- Primary responsibility is application design and development of next gen clearing applications for business requirements in agreed architecture framework and Agile environment.
- Work as part of the team building and maintaining Kubernetes Operators, and operational tools.
- Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation.
- 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.
- Participates in code-reviews based on high engineering standards
- Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen test frameworks.
- Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required.
- Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management.
- Assist with departmental and new employee training.
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions. Hands-on programming experience in Golang and Java.
- Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.
- Must be able to write good quality code with 80% or above unit and integration tests coverage. Experience with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus is desirable.workloads, controllers, RBAC, networking, etc.
- Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services and Kubernetes.
- Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
- Experience following Git workflows is required.
- Familiarity with DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm and CI/CD pipelines etc.
- Experience with containers (eg, Docker) and orchestration concepts.
- Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, Prometheus, AppDynamics is a plus.
- Get stuff done' and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization.
- Intellectually curious and eager to learn.
- Solid understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals,
Technical Skills:
- Experience with Golang application development.
- Experience using or contributing to Kubernetes CRDs or Operators is a plus.
- Exposure to Helm, Kustomize, or Kubernetes client libraries
- Familiarity with tools like Terraform, Jenkins, and Make
- Interest or experience in cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with performance optimization, profiling, and memory management.
- Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable.
- Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 11+ is required.
Education/Certifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required. Masters preferred.
- OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification is a plus
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level is a plus