Senior Software Engineer

The Team:

The team is responsible for building software products in a key strategic platform using emerging tools and technologies. The team works in a significant environment that gives ample opportunities to use creative ideas to take on complex software problems. You will have the opportunity every single day to work with people from a wide variety of backgrounds and will be able to develop a close team dynamic with coworkers from around the globe.

What are we looking at:

The role offers extensive business and technical challenges in a highly dynamic and collaborative work environment. A passion for quality and a sense of pride in your work are an absolute must for the role. The business domain (Corporate Actions & Custody) is highly complex, and knowledge of the business domain is a necessity for the role. The role offers the right candidate opportunities to take ownership of components within the system.

Whats in it for you:

• Build a career with a global company. 

• Work on code that fuels the global financial markets. 

• Grow and improve your skills by working on enterprise level products and new technologies. 

Responsibilities:

• Complete ownership of the design and the implementation (estimation, breakdown of tasks) for complex business functional specifications through the full software development lifecycle.

• Complete ownership of maintenance and support issues as they come up during the project lifecycle pre and post go-live. Provide technical assistance to other teams support, QA, business analysis.

• Ability to work with remote team in a geographically distributed development model.

• Evaluate, apply & lead adoption of new technologies and tools within the IM Development team and across the organisation to provide productivity, efficiency and scalability benefits.

• Collaborate and share technical and business knowledge to all members of the Development and wider IM organisation.

• Agent of constant improvement within development and across the company.

Educational Qualification:

• B. E. degree in an IT/ Computer Science or related course is a prerequisite

Experience 7+ years

• Commercial awareness

• Strong inter-personal skills required. Ability to multitask and prioritize work

• Personal competencies

• Proficiency in at least one of the J2EE - Application Servers listed below Weblogic, IBM Websphere, JBoss / Tomcat with proven excellence in Java.

o Proficiency in one of the Messaging Systems listed below: JMS, MQ, Tibco.

o Intermediate level proficiency in Oracle - (PL/SQL)

• Working knowledge with IOC container / Spring, Spring MVC, Spring JDBC & ORM like Hibernate

• Expertise with monitoring tools like DataDog, Splunk, Dynatrace etc.

• Understanding of Java Memory Management and GC tuning.

• Good experience of working with Spring Batches and their performance tuning.

• Deep diagnosis skills & experience working with legacy code, thread dump analysis & Code profiling tools. Good knowledge of refactoring techniques is an added advantage.

• Understands and applies J2EE design patterns, GoF, GRASP, Visitor, Observer and other design patterns.

• Tooling/Testing

o Expertise in Unit testing using JUNIT, TestNG, Cactus or mock objects

o Expertise in GIT, branching, code management

o Demonstrates ability to use an IDE and mentor others in the use of an IDE.

o Understands fundamentals of JVM memory management,

o Experience working with Continuous Integration tools

• Processes

o Agile development methodology such as SCRUM, XP

o Test Driven Development & Continuous Integration

Communication

Proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of development best practices are critical to successful performance in this role

Teamwork

Ability to collaborate in a team environment. Experience in Agile development methodology is preferred.