Champion Code Quality: Enforce clean coding standards, SOLID principles, and comprehensive unit/integration test coverage through rigorous peer code reviews and automated quality metrics (SonarQube).
Drive Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with platform owners and business analysts to refine requirements and deliver high-impact functional capabilities.
Automate CI/CD & Deployments: Advance continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, containerization on OpenShift/Kubernetes, and automated release verification.
Ensure Operational Stability: Coordinate application release management and provide proactive Tier-3 production support and root-cause analysis for critical platform escalations.
Modernize Development Workflows: Promote continuous engineering improvements, including cloud adoption and leveraging AI-assisted developer productivity tooling.
Mentor & Foster Team Excellence: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering a collaborative, high-trust, and continuous-learning culture.
Navigate Dynamic Priorities: Self-manage complex technical tasks with autonomy and adapt swiftly to shifting business and market requirements.
Requirements
Experience: 10+ years of hands-on software development and architecture experience in enterprise, high-throughput environments.
Java & Microservices: Expert-level proficiency in Modern Java (Java 17+), Core Java, Spring Boot / Spring Framework, Hibernate, and RESTful service design (JSON/XML).
Distributed Systems: Hands-on experience with distributed caching and in-memory data grids (e.g., Apache Ignite, Hazelcast, or Redis).
Database Systems: Strong practical knowledge of RDBMS (Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server) with performance tuning skills, as well as NoSQL persistence solutions.
Domain Knowledge: Strong domain understanding of Equity Derivatives products, pricing/risk workflows, and end-to-end trade lifecycle management.
Cloud & Containers: Experience building and deploying resilient microservices on OpenShift, Kubernetes, or equivalent cloud platforms.
DevOps & Tooling: Solid experience with Git/Bitbucket, automated CI/CD toolchains, and modern build/release pipelines.
AI-Assisted Development: Experience adopting AI-powered developer tooling, copilots, and agentic workflows to optimize engineering efficiency.
Engineering Standards: Deep understanding of SOLID principles, clean code practices, enterprise design patterns, and automated quality gates (SonarQube, JUnit, TestNG).
Release & L3 Support: Proven ability to coordinate application deployments and provide Tier-3 production support and root-cause analysis.
Communication & Leadership: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a collaborative mindset and comfort navigating ambiguous, fast-paced trading environments.
Job Family Group
Technology
Job Family
Applications Development
Time Type
Full time
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