Staff Engineer
Overview
Permanent, full-time, hybrid.
Please submit your CV in English
Connecting clients to markets - and talent to opportunity
With 5,400+ employees and over 80,000 institutional, commercial, and payments clients, we operate from more than 80 offices spread across six continents. As a Fortune 100, Nasdaq-listed provider, we connect clients to the global markets - focusing on innovation, human connection, and providing world-class products and services to all types of investors.
Whether you want to forge a career connecting our retail clients to potential trading opportunities, or ingrain yourself in the world of institutional investing, StoneX Group is made up of four business segments that offer endless potential for progression and growth.
Corporate: Engage in a deep variety of business-critical activities that keep our company running efficiently. From strategic marketing and financial management to human resources and operational oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to optimize processes and implement game-changing policies.
Technology Ecosystem:
- Back End: Java 21+, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Kafka/Redpanda, gRPC, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Unit/Integration Testing
- Architecture: Micro-services, event-based architecture
- Cloud: CI/CD DevOps, Azure, GitHub Enterprise
Responsibilities
Position Purpose: Java back-end engineer will be building Microservice based enterprise applications with Java J2EE, Spring Boot. Working collaboratively with Agile Team Members to deliver Maximum Business Value. This person will be reporting to Technology Team Leads in Funding As A Service/Treasury Management Team.
Primary duties will include as per below product roadmap:
- Actively work with Product Management team to translate product requirements and functional maps to technical design and frameworks.
- Prepare and review technical specifications and review code. Where required have the ability to code as well.
- Validate development builds and provide early feedback. Ensure high quality development delivery.
- Nice to have good understand of payment systems including real time capabilities.
- Good understanding of emerging opportunities in the areas of CI/CD and cloud-based deployment
- Support production support teams to help resolve production issues and support them with tools that improve their productivity.
Project Roadmap
Ability to oversee and guide multiple development projects and support existing applications
Currently inflight/planned initiatives
- Rebuild Front Office and back-office Funding/Withdrawal Cash Management and treasury management platform for StoneX Enterprise.
- Align with StoneX ecosystem for Funding & Withdrawal Strategy and Architecture function and develop data architecture and technical designs for re-engineering modules to newer technologies in phased manner.
- Build Future State platform in multi-tenancy SaaS model
- Messaging Hub
- Build and grow usage of flexible integration hub platform that helps StoneX connect with its customers and banks.
- Enable Full ISO20022 Support for inbound and outbound traffic
- Productization and offer capability in SaaS model
- Numerous other initiatives in other applications for Cash Management, Treasury Management
Architecture
- Alignment with overall Product and technology architecture.
- Exposure and experience building applications for real time payments and low latency systems
Qualifications
To land this role you will need:
- Developing applications on Java SpringBoot Framework using Java.
- Messaging/Integration middleware products such as Kafka and Rabbit MQ
- Web Frameworks, Micro Front Ends - HTML, CSS, JS, React framework
- Relational Databases such as SQL Server and Postgress
- Object-Oriented Design & Development
- Agile Development Techniques with hands on experience workign with process tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA
- Software Versioning system such as SVN and Git
- Unit Testing Frameworks and Test Automation Frameworks
- Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure with exposure to deploying using Docker Containers with Kubernetes
- CI/CD pipeline process and applications
Education / Certification Requirements:
- University qualification in Computer Science / Software Engineering or similar discipline OR a great GitHub portfolio showcasing your most recent projects.
Working environment:
- Hybrid - 4 days in office ((Office location: Avenida Carrera 9A - Avenida Carrera 9A # 115-06/30 Edificio Torre Tierrafirme Bogotá, 110111 Colombia).
- Full Time Employment type of contract