Java Developer

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership:
• Provide technical leadership by guiding and mentoring software engineers in creating robust and scalable solutions.
• Lead the recruitment process to identify and onboard top-tier engineering talent.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and growth within the technical team.
• Architectural Vision:
• Collaborate closely with engineering leadership, senior technical stakeholders, and product managers to shape the architectural vision and ensure alignment with business goals.
• Actively participate in code reviews and technical design discussions and contribute hands-on expertise to development efforts.
• Drive the evolution of development processes, establish meaningful metrics, and cultivate a team culture emphasizing technical excellence.
• Lead POCs and technical evaluations
• Hands-on Technical Involvement:
• Demonstrate deep technical involvement through direct contributions to the codebase, technical design discussions, and the development of domain expertise.
• Utilize your extensive experience to guide the team in developing large-scale distributed systems, employing languages such as Java, Python, C++, Ruby, Go, or JavaScript.
• Process Evolution and DevOps:
• Innovate and evolve development processes to enhance efficiency and agility.
• Leverage a background in DevOps to oversee the operational aspects of widely deployed SaaS products.
• Implement and optimize CI/CD environments for seamless software delivery.

Must-Have:

• Managerial and Technical Expertise:
• Possess 3+ years of managerial experience and a solid 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Demonstrate prior success in leading and growing cross-functional development teams of 10-20 individual contributors.
• Software Delivery Excellence:
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality software within tight deadlines, emphasizing agility in a collaborative and cross-functional environment.
• Technical Proficiency:
• Hands-on experience developing and designing large-scale distributed systems using languages like Java, Python, C++, Ruby, Go, or JavaScript.
• DevOps and SaaS Background:
• Background in DevOps with experience in the operation of widely deployed SaaS products.
• Communication and Organization:
• Exceptional organizational skills and effective interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.

Nice to Have:

• CI/CD and Cloud Platform Experience:
• Previous experience in designing CI/CD environments.
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Data-Driven Decision Making:
• Demonstrated experience using data to measure success, drive improvements, and inform strategic decisions.
• Global Team Collaboration:
• Previous experience working on geographically dispersed teams.

Technical Knowledge/Skills · · · · · · · · Experience with Publish/Subscribe messaging paradigms, distributed transaction processing based on JTA/JTS Specifically experience with JBoss, JMS, Spring, Hibernate Strong UNIX skills in particular Linux Strong relational database skills - Sybase , MS SQL Server, MySQL Knowledge of source control such as Git, Subversion Experience of using a build automation tool such as Maven Experience of using Junit, jMock, Cucumber Experience in defining and implementing web services (REST paradigm) and data services (e.g. OData) · · · · · · Experience with Camel, Mule, Spring Integration, Fuse ESB or similar Experience of working with XML based technologies such as XSLT, JAXB Experience in implementing vendor proprietary realtime connectors using JCA Experience of Atlassian ALM/SDLC tools (JIRA, Bamboo, FishEye, Crucible, Confluence) or Hudson Experience with containerization tool such as Docker and containerorchestration system such as Kubernetes or OpenShift Experience with NoSQL such as MongoDB

Qualifications

· Strong educational background with BS/MS in computer science or other numerate discipline or equivalent

Key behaviours/competencies

· · · · Excellent communication skills and the confidence to challenge Strong problem solving skills - able to think clearly under pressure Analytical skills Organisation & planning · Self-motivated with a keen interest in gaining investment banking experience

· Team working skills

· Ability to constructively influence other departments and individua

About Apexon:

Apexon is a digital-first technology services firm specializing in accelerating business transformation and delivering human-centric digital experiences. For over 17 years, Apexon has been meeting customers wherever they are in the digital lifecycle and helping them outperform their competition through speed and innovation. Our reputation is built on a comprehensive suite of engineering services, a dedication to solving our clients’ toughest technology problems, and a commitment to continuous improvement. We focus on three broad areas of digital services: User Experience (UI/UX, Commerce); Engineering (QE/Automation, Cloud, Product/Platform); and Data (Foundation, Analytics, and AI/ML), and have deep expertise in BFSI, healthcare, and life sciences.

Apexon is backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital.

To know more about us please visit: https://www.apexon.com/

About the role:

This role will help build and support the data factory, keying and Linking and Credit Products on Azure. The role will also in addition automate Infra as a code to protect data, performance, secure product and customer interactions. Configure and deploy tools to leverage operational metrics to support customers with sys on glass monitoring and via alerts to help with L2 and L3 support.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Produce well-designed, testable, efficient quality code
• Ensure designs comply with specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement and innovation
• Produce quality documentation for the support teams
• Troubleshoot / Diagnose issues and identify appropriate solutions

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience required.
• 8 to 12 years of experience designing, developing and implementing software applications and hands-on experience with large-scale applications at large institutions with technologies like Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, producing & consuming REST API’s.
• Experience with front-end / UI technologies – ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML CSS
• Strong expertise on Kafka, event-driven architecture
• Strong experience using one or more Relational & non-relational NoSQL databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis).
• Expertise in Security, IAM Policies and Networking.

Great to Have:

• Experience with Kubernetes, Openshift
• Experience with Azure Event Hub, Azure Blob Storage, Stream Analytics.
• Practical experience with the end-to-end DevOps CI/CD pipeline including one or more of the following: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Maven, Gitlab, and SonarQube.
• Strong experience on event-based architecture leading strategy, governance and execution of event-based architecture at large institutions.
• Financial services industry experience.
• Experience with analytics and performance monitoring.
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Experience in the day-to-day practicalities of Agile software Product Development Lifecycles such as Scrum, SAFe, DAD, Lean-Agile, Kanban, etc.

• Design, implementation, and deployment of successful LOS/LMS system features and services in support of our lending operations and the businesses they support
• Resolve bugs in the software features and deliver them on time with high quality
• Participate in the definition of secure, scalable, and low-latency services and efficient physical processes
• Work with cross-functional teams delivering on demanding projects
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
• Understand system inter-dependencies and limitations

About the Position

We are looking for a passionate and experienced software engineer to join our team at Mumbai. In this role, your primary responsibilities will be to take ownership of developing user facing applications and features in an agile manner. You will design and implement scalable and performant front-end solutions from scratch, while also taking a hard look at the existing ones.

What you will do at QI?

• Design, develop and deliver new user-facing apps and feature and improve existing ones
• Take ownership of product(s), and contribute to dev cycles and sprints planning
• Ensure technical feasibility of UI/UX design, share inputs with other teams including product, design and QA
• Optimize applications for performance, user experience and SEO
• Build reusable code and libraries. Contribute to open source projects.
• Stay up-to-date with new technologies with an eye of constantly adapting and improving our systems and methods.

Basic Job requirements

• 2 years + work experience in a similar role
• Strong experience in HTML5, CSS, DOM and front-end tooling ecosystem (Gulp,Grunt, Webpack)
• Excellent concepts and command over JavaScript
• Strong concepts and commercial experience in Vue.js
• Solid foundation in software development ( algorithm design, data structure, SDLC)
• Good concepts of unit testing and automation testing for UI components
• Good understanding of web app performance including Google Core Web Vitals metrics.

Location - Remote 

Good to have

• Basic knowledge of REST API and relational databases
• Basic understanding of browser internals
• Familiarity with web components and shadow DOM
• Exposure to progressive web app design.

About QuantInsti®

QuantInsti® was started in 2010, by the founders from iRage – a leading quant and algo trading firm in India.  From its early days focused on bridging the industry knowledge gap in the field of high-frequency trading, we have come a long way in the last decade. Today, we have a user base from 180+ countries with a growth rate much over 50% year-on-year.

At QuantInsti®, we swear by our goal of revolutionizing the way people approach the financial markets by empowering individuals and institutions with bleeding edge education and technologies. We offer high quality https://www.quantinsti.com/epat">learning experience and best-in-class https://quantra.quantinsti.com/">courses geared towards a global audience in quantitative trading and investing. Our in-house developed technology aims to bring institutional grade tools and https://quantra-blueshift.quantinsti.com/">platforms to democratize systematic and quantitative trading.

We achieve this by putting technology at the core of our business. We have a complex ecosystem of microservices and applications deployed over a fully cloud-based infrastructure. Our tech stack includes Node.js, Vue.js, Python and Docker. The team is driven by user experience, with strong focus on delivering scalable software solutions to complex and evolving business goals.

Why you should join us?

At QuantInsti, we work at the cutting edge of FinTech and EdTech offerings. We work with the newest technologies with a goal of delivering best experience to our users in a scalable manner, with high-performance and availability. If you love to be challenged intellectually, rest assured we have plenty of them for you. We follow an open and free work culture, where you are encouraged to ask questions, learn and teach. We offer a fast-paced environment where you take ownership of what you design and deliver. If you are looking for a move where you will find a reason to wake up every morning and rush to work, come join us.