Senior Engineer, Software Engineering

The Team

IMActionsTM is one of the worlds most trusted post-trade software. As an international team of industry experts we architect and deliver intelligent post-trade software applications to the capital markets globally. We have a proven history transforming business models for the worlds premier financial institutions, enabling them to enter new markets, reduce risk, increase profitability and improve service standards.

We do this by seamlessly managing the huge volume and complex processing of all core post-trade services. These include asset servicing, securities and cash processing, and post trade analytics. Our team of experts supports our global customer base from offices in Dublin, New Delhi (Gurgaon), Singapore and Dallas.

What's in for you

We are looking for a developer to join the Client Engagement team, to design and implement the next generation of features for the application as well as support clients in their production phase. The role offers extensive business and technical challenges in a highly dynamic and collaborative work environment. A passion for quality and a sense of pride in your work are an absolute must for the role. The business domain (Corporate Actions & Custody) is highly complex, and knowledge of the business domain is a necessity for the role. The role offers the right candidate opportunities to take ownership of components within the system.

Duties & accountabilities:

• Complete ownership of the design and the implementation (estimation, breakdown of tasks) for complex business functional specifications through the full software development lifecycle.
• Complete ownership of maintenance and support issues as they come up during the project lifecycle pre and post go-live. Provide technical assistance to other teams support, QA, business analysis.
• Ability to work with remote team in a geographically distributed development model.
• Evaluate, apply & lead adoption of new technologies and tools within the development team and across the organization to provide productivity, efficiency and scalability benefits.

Business competencies:

Education and experience

B. E. degree in an IT/ Computer Science or related course is a prerequisite (Experience 8 to 10 years)

Commercial awareness

Management requirements

Strong inter-personal skills required. Ability to multitask and prioritize work

Personal competencies:

Personal impact

• Proficiency in at least one of the J2EE - Application Servers listed below WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, JBoss / Tomcat with proven excellence in Java.
  • Proficiency in one of the Messaging Systems listed below: JMS, MQ, Tibco.
  • Intermediate level proficiency in Oracle - (PL/SQL)

• Working knowledge with IOC container / Spring, Spring MVC, Spring JDBC & ORM like Hibernate
• Deep diagnosis skills & experience working with legacy code, thread dump analysis & Code profiling tools. Good knowledge of refactoring techniques is an added advantage.
• Understands and applies J2EE design patterns, GoF, GRASP, Visitor, Observer and other design patterns

• Expertise with monitoring tools like DataDog, Splunk, Dynatrace etc.
• Understanding of Java Memory Management and GC tuning.
• Good experience of working with Spring Batches and their performance tuning.
• Working knowledge of Spring boot
• Good understanding on Penetration-testing and vulnerability resolution.
• Demonstrated experience using AI-enhanced development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Replit AI, ChatGPT, Amazon CodeWhisperer or any equivalent) to improve code quality, automate repetitive tasks, and speed up development cycles.
• Institutionalize Copilot, Claude, Cursor for engineering productivity
• Tooling/Testing
  • Expertise in Unit testing using JUNIT, TestNG, Cactus or mock objects
  • Expertise in GIT, branching, code management
  • Demonstrates ability to use an IDE and mentor others in the use of an IDE.
  • Understands fundamentals of JVM memory management,

Communication

Proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of development best practices are critical to successful performance in this role

Teamwork

Ability to collaborate in a team environment. Experience in Agile development methodology is preferred.