Software Engineer

Job Description

Looking for a brilliant, passionate and innovative software developer to join the Research and Technology team of a Global Financial Technology company as part of their Block-chain team.

You will be a key member of a highly agile team of technology enthusiasts, be part of a team playing a critical role in building exciting and innovative products and taking them to scale globally. This team is built on a foundation of research and development, mining innovation internally, innovating new product lines with emerging technology, managing new products from inception to market validation and engaging strategically with start-ups to shape the future of commerce with and for our customers.

This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance Java based solutions. In this role, you will be responsible for:

•            Design and implementation of innovative capabilities.

•            Work as part of a co-located agile team.

•            Work closely with Technical leads and other developers to define solutions.

•            Develop high-quality, scalable and secure software.

•            Research alternative technical solutions to meet changing business needs.

•            Work with project team to meet due dates, while working through tasks and recommending solutions.

•            Produce design documentation in accordance with company documentation standards.

•            Transitioning R&D solutions.

About you:

•            High degree of proficiency with Java JDK 8 or greater.

•            Some experience with crypto concepts such as Hashing and Encryption (Symmetric/Asymmetric)

•            Excellent communication (verbal and written) and strong collaboration skills.

•            Show initiative and demonstrate a willingness to take on challenging opportunities.

•            Knowledge of Tomcat, Spring, Spring Boot, Shell Scripting, JSON.

•            Passionate about software development and comfortable in a fluid environment.

•            Good working knowledge of GIT and working with code in a multi-developer

•            environment.

•            Passionate about code quality and coding best practices.

•            Must be driven, highly motivated and a strong team-player.

•            Interested in mentoring and helping grow the skills of the next generation of software

•            developers.

•            Fluency in English.

Desirable:

•            Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or other container orchestration solutions.

•            Experience with Linux, SQL, Multi-threading as part of distributed low-latency systems.

•            Expertise in Junit or other automated unit testing frameworks.

•            Knowledge of CI/CD principles and tools such as Jenkins, Gradle, Maven.

•            Knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace, Graphana or other alerting and monitoring solutions.