Java Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

Functional / Technical

• Communicate highly technical issues to non-technical audience.
• Development and delivery with Java, EJB, Spring Boot, MySQL, Oracle and IBM MQ.
• Understand business / system requirements and translate them into technical solutions that are scalable, stable and fit for purpose.
• Tackle very complex legacy defects that developers cannot analyse/solve.
• Ensure adherence to the bank standards (including code, security and performance).
• Passionate about technologies and building robust and scalable Java Systems.
• Analysis, design coding, and implementation of complex and custom-built applications.
• Work collaboratively with team to achieve goals. Experience working in Agile methodologies, such as Scrum, and/or Extreme programming.
• Investigate and resolve production issues to help maintain a stable production environment; remain cool and effective in crisis.

Regulatory Responsibilities &/OR Risk Management

• Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Take responsibility for ensuring that risks and issues are identified and managed closely and drive all stakeholders to deliver on time and to the required quality standards

Required Skills:

Professional

• Well organized and ability to prioritise and carry out multiple tasks
• Able to influence and drive projects to meet key milestones and overcome challenges
• Able to translate functional requirements to efficient and fit-for-purpose technical solutions
• Preferably, have experience in finance/banking or public sector domain.

Technical

Must Have:

• Core Java and JUnit.
• Spring Boot
• Strong computer science knowledge (algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design)
• TDD. Able to write acceptance test.
• Basic Linux shell scripting commands 
• Java Messaging Concepts. (JMS, MQ)
• Relational Database concepts, SQL, joins, index,triggers etc.
• Web Services Rest, SOAP.
• Spring core concepts.
• Experience in SQL queries optimisation
• BasicDevOps and AWS cloud experience (CI/CD, containerisation, common AWS services)
• Familiarity with Intellij, Git, SonarQube/SonarLint

Desirable:

• JBOSS (or any other application server knowledge).
• Java Server Faces, JPA, EJB knowledge.
• Able to write/understand complex SQL queries.
• Kafka
• React JS

Skills

TDD, Software Defect Management, Banking Compliance, Data Structures, Implementation of Software Applications, Translate Into Technical Requirements, set team goals, Junit Tests, Bash Scripting, JMS, Java Based Solutions, Java Development Kit, Solve Technical Problems, Acceptance Testing, Messaging Frameworks, Algorithms