Java Developer - Collateral IT

Position Purpose

The bank aims to build the best Collateral Management application in the world. We are looking for an innovative and an extraordinarily talented developer who can lead the efforts in achieving this mission. Collateral Management is a very critical function of the bank, the application is used by about 300-400 users worldwide where special focus is on reactivity to clients. You will be joining a team of highly motivated developers based out of India, Lisbon and London who want to achieve the same goal. The role requires rearchitecting the current application and proposing newer technologies to upgrade the current tech stack and making it more robust, scalable and performant. Special focus is on removing tech obsolescence and driving secure coding practices. Good knowledge of software engineering practices is required to be able to coach and inspire other team members to drive for better quality coding both from an architectural and process point of view. Knowledge of DevSecOps and observability tools is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

1. Rearchitecting the existing application by identifying drawbacks and proposing performant, scalable designs with new technologies of choice.
2. Building features from scratch to demonstrate how frameworks function.
3. Championing and communicating best practices for coding.
4. Conducting constructive Peer Review of code to improve the teams knowledge and overall code quality improvement.

Contributing Responsibilities

1. Onboard/Train existing team members on target technology and mentor other team members.
2. Improve the current DevOps pipeline to Production including robust testing pipelines.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory

• Java 11 and above
• Database development, SQL and Stored Procedures in Sybase/Oracle or MongoDB.
• Spring framework, Rest APIs and any ORM technology
• JUnit, mocking techniques (e.g., easymock, jmock, mockito,..), Cucumber, BDD
• Knowledge of Apache Camel/Kafka or any messaging technology
• Ability to communicate with team having broad range of knowledge and experience
• Ability to understand complex systems and take the initiative, to seek out and accept new responsibilities
• Possess drive, self-motivation, good interpersonal and team skills

Good to Have

• Experience with deployment models like modular, monolith and microservice
• Knowledge of performance tuning of java applications
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies, e.g., TDD, XP, Scrum.
• Experience with Architectural Paradigms like DDD, notions of division by domain/sub-domain, API First
• Knowledge of Integration Patterns - Event Driven Architecture
• Knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience with DevSecOps tools like Jenkins, Fortify and Sonar