This role involves developing revenue-generating applications for investment banking using Java and Spring Boot, collaborating with teams for efficient delivery, and applying TDD practices.
Job Description
Job Title: Jr Java Dev (Backend)
Location: New York, NY
Duration: 12 months
Please look for local candidate who is available for F2F.
Job Summary:
What you will do:
- Build time critical and revenue generating applications for investment banking and global capital marketing businesses
- Use design thinking to improve developer efficiency
- Apply your knowledge of APIs, components, security standards, testing tools, web browsers, mobile development, etc. to deliver outstanding outcomes
- Collaborate with your peers across the globe to build innovative solutions which delight our users
- Work closely with Product Management Team, Development & QA Teams to deliver timely and quality deliveries.
- Successfully multi-task and thrive in a dynamic, fully engaged developer role.
Skills Required:
- Strong Java developer (4+ years), who has good grasp of functional and reactive programming
- Experience in using Spring Containers (with Spring Boot) for enterprise applications
- Experience in building data-intensive / real time applications and scaling of applications (multithreading, performance, maintainability, and robustness)
- Working experience on XML, JSON, SOAP, REST Services
- Proficiency in Java 8 (Lambdas, Streams, Completable Future, Optional, generics)
- Experience in developing REST APIs using Spring Boot 2.0 (reactive) and skilled in Open API (swagger) specification.
- A working knowledge of backend web development technology topics like APIs, asynchronous messaging, and cloud computing
- Experience in relational data bases like DB2 or PostgreSQL
- Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavior Driven Development (BDD) practices, writing test cases with testing frameworks like Junit, Cucumber, Rest assured
- Basic knowledge on Unix / shell scripting and RDBMS like Sybase
- The ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing to a broad audience of business, product, and technology team members
- Familiarity with Agile development and DevOps concepts
Nice to have:
- Experience with no-SQL databases such as MongoDB
- Experience with distributed systems architecture concepts such as micro services, service meshes and API gateways, XML , SOAP
- Experience with software development and collaboration tools (GitHub, Jira/Rally, Confluence, etc.)
- Experience in using GIT for source control management, and Automated Build Deployment tools (eg: Jenkins)
- Significant open source or other community contribution
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Top Skills
APIs
Cucumber
Db2
Java
JSON
Junit
Postgres
Rest
Rest Assured
Soap
Spring Boot
Unix
XML
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