Senior Backend Java Kafka Developer

What You'll Do: The Associate Principal works with business analysts, team leads and other developers. A contributor in development of scalable resilient hybrid Cloud-based solutions supporting critical financial risk management activities; collaborate with developers, architects and product owners to drive the strategy of transforming the enterprise into a data-driven organization. The Associate Principal will be a team player and work well with business, technical and non-technical professionals in a project environment. Primary Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily. Actively participates and contributes to requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements. • 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. • Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management. • Assist with departmental and new employee training. Qualifications: The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions. • 5 years of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions. • Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 11 is required. • 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. • Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, Prometheus, AppDynamics is a plus. • ‘Get stuff done’ and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization. • Intellectually curious and eager to learn. • Preferred - Experience with app development in Golang. Technical Skills: • Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 11 is required. • Experience with Golang application development. • Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required. • Experience with performance optimization, profiling, and memory management. • Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc. is desirable. • Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph. Education and/or Experience: BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required. Masters preferred. Certificates or Licenses: • OCP Java SE 8 Programmer Certification is a plus • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level is a plus