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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.