Request Technology, LLC
Associate Principal, Backend Java Developer
Request Technology, LLC, Chicago, IL, United States
Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role
NO CONTRACTORS OR CONSULTANTS
A prestigious company is looking for an Associate Principal, Backend Java Developer. This company needs someone with 7-10 years of experience focused on backend java development, Java 11, Kafka, Golang, Multithreading, AWS, etc. They will be working in a real-time and highly regulated financial 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.
- 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.
Qualifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required. Masters preferred.
- 7-10 years of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
- Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 11+ is required.
- Experience with app development in Golang.
- Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.
- Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, IBM MQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable.
- Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
- 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.
- 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 pipeline etc.is a plus.
- Experience with performance optimization, profiling, and memory management.