Senior Backend Developer (Java)

We’re looking for a 2 Senior Platform Developers who can help us continue to be the best digital bank in the world.

Your primary job responsibility will be

• Development of our highly scalable, modern Microservices based platform and mobile/web APIs.
• Work with the rest of the platform team to design and implement creative architecture patterns for high-performance, highly scalable concurrent services.
• Collaborate with the Product development teams to help build our product portfolios.
• Building and maintaining secure REST based APIs for our Mobile, Web and internal applications.
• Working with new and popular software frameworks (such as Vert.x, Jooq, Cassandra, Java 8, RxJava etc) in a fully distributed system.
• Working with an Agile methodology (SCRUM) to develop just-in-time features.
• Work with the delivery team to build and performance tune software that supports automated continuous delivery systems for Testing and Live environments.
• Report directly to the Software Development Manager.

Skill requirements:

You must be able to demonstrate capability in the following in Live Production environments:

• A minimum of 4+ years development experience working for a company With at minimum of 2 years in Java.
• Will need to show a good working level of English.
• Minimum 3 years experience in REST based or service oriented Java development / Frameworks.
• Experience in developing with Message Queue systems and Clustered/MasterSlave relational DB systems.
• Experience with Caching systems and strategies such as Redis.
• Must have good working knowledge of Linux Server systems and Command Line.
• Experience and strong belief in agile development practices such as Unit Testing and DevOps and Cloud based development principles such as 12 Factor apps etc.

Some desirable skills:

• Experience or capability in the following areas whilst not required would be an additional plus for you.
• Experience in Kafka, Storm, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Software patterns, Micro-services/Service Oriented Architecture, cloud based software design techniques and Dev-Ops style systems integration.
• Understanding of Security concerns, Secure Development and API/App security.
• Good understanding of Networking and Operating system (preferably Linux).
• Knowledge of Spring/Spring Boot, Jersey, Jooq is a big plus.
• Knowledge of Java 8+ such as Streams, Lambdas and Reactive programming is a plus.
• Knowledge of Scripting, Command Line and basic OS admin is a plus.
• Strong desire to learn modern continuous build techniques and automated deployment systems.