Java Software Engineer - Financial Services Firm - Chicago, Hybrid

Opportunity to work on design and development of next gen clearing applications with a focus on 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.Primary Duties and Responsibilities:Application design and development of next gen clearing applications.Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation.Participates in code-reviews based on high engineering standardsWrites 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: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 working with various databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.Experience following Git workflows is required.Experience with performance optimization, profiling, and memory management.Work w/distributed message brokers; Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, 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 IAMMust 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.Familiarity with DevOps tools. (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.is a plus)Familiarity with monitoring tools and frameworks (Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics a plus)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 plusAWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate Level is a plus