Senior Java Developer

Job Purpose

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. As a member of the Engineering team, you will have the opportunity to participate in modernizing and enhancing some of our most prominent financial data platforms. The small team you will be joining teams up with other development teams and assists in finding solutions to their most complicated tasks. Thus, you may expect to work on different assignments, related to multiple platforms and with different engineers over time.

Responsibilities

• Focus on sustainable development by exercising good estimation, effective coding strategies for managing code, and employing automated testing to protect quality.
• Using AI coding assistants and especially agentic tools to accelerate development cycles, while marinating full ownership of generated code and documentation.
• Analyzing the needs and requirements of existing and proposed systems.
• Design, develop, and test software applications with high quality and on schedule.
• Turn ideas and concepts into carefully designed and well-authored code.
• Implement modules ensuring best coding practice.
• Resolve technical issues.

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or related fields or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience.
• 7+ years of software development experience using object-oriented design for high-volume transactional and customer-facing web applications.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new technologies and processes.
• Ability and willingness to learn the technical details of mature systems as to be able to productively contribute to the development and upgrade of such systems.
• Strong experience in developing and deploying systems based on Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience with Oracle databases.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Ability to communicate fluently and professionally in complex technical and business contexts.

Preferred

• Experience using LLMs to extract structured data from unstructured documents, or at a minimum the ability and desire to enter this domain.
• Knowledge of fixed income markets and financial instruments.
• Proven experience utilizing Agentic AI to accelerate complex/large development efforts.
• Python experience.
• Familiarity with Linux.