Position: Senior Java Developer
Company: Luxoft
Category: Java
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent

Project Description:
Excellent opportunity for a Senior Java Developer
They will work on delivery of projects, carry out enhancements and provide support on a highly critical clearing system. May be require to provide O/N support.

Individual must be disciplined in adhering to the company standards in development, testing and change management.

They will liaise and coordinate with business users and other technology areas

Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with fellow developers, financial market infrastructure experts, testers, architects and operations teams to deliver working solutions.
• Take ownership of the analysis, design, build and delivery of software components written in Java.
• Take responsibility for identification, estimation and reporting on of progress of tasks.
• Assimilate, challenge, help refine and then apply our architectural principles around scalability, security and fault tolerance.
• Develop a deep understanding of the mechanics of clearing and apply this knowledge.
• Participate in support of the wider platform, potentially joining the on-call rota.

Mandatory Skills Description:
• Java 11+
• Spring Boot
• JMS message API
• Understanding of the SDLC, Object Orientated and Functional programming.
• Linux, shell script and scripting languages such as
• Architectural and Design patterns of modern distributed systems
• Exposure to TDD/BDD e.g. Cucumber
• Use of Spring Cloud ecosystem
• Development of standards and best practices in conjunction with the development team.
• Excellent communication and collaboration using both verbal and written skills.
• Development of maintenance procedures and processes for CI/CD processes to remove key person dependencies
• Ability to collaborate with others to find the best way to resolve a technological, infrastructure, security or development issue.
• 10+ Years experience in hands-on commercial software development
• Agile/Scrum development practices and principles focusing on writing high-performance, clean, quality code
• Proven experience of leading technical delivery within 1 or more project teams
• Ability to lead and mentor less experienced members of the project team
• Architecture, design and implementation ownership
• Performance tuning
• Exposure to all aspects of software development and the project life cycle
• Excellent conceptual grasp of all aspects of software development gained by involvement in the full project life cycle of multiple substantial projects
• Champion automation, maturing CI/CD pipelines, technology adoption and agile best practices

Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Experience of finance and/or FX business.
• Desirable to have experience of high-frequency/low latency development
• Exposure to quant/pricing analytical libraries
• Use of Spring Cloud ecosystem
• Any experience in Kafka as a messaging broker would be advantageous
• Use of monitoring frameworks such as Micrometer and Datadog
• Front end technologies such as React, NPM and node.js
• Actor-based frameworks such as Akka or Quasar
• AWS, Terraform, Terragrunt, Kubernetes, Docker, Packer, Anthos on AWS, Istio and service mesh
• Good RDBMS skills such as Oracle or MySQL
• Exposure to NoSQL technologies