Software Development Engineering

Job Description: Overview
The Finance Company Dispute Resolution team is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to drive our strategy forward through innovation and problem-solving. The ideal candidate is highly motivated, intellectually curious, analytical, and possesses an entrepreneurial mindset. As a group, we have a Lean-Agile focus on delivering the right solutions to internal and external customers with the highest quality in the shortest lead times.

Role:
This role involves working with a team of talented developers to develop high performance, low latency, highly scalable Java based services. In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Design and implementation of innovative and resilient Java based capabilities to enhance the DRP service offerings, taking end to end ownership of delivery and adhering to coding standards of excellence.
• Work closely with Product Owners and cross dependent teams to define features and user stories that materially impact the business and improve the consumer experience.
• Leading a co-located Agile SCRUM team to meet due dates, while working through emerging issues and recommending solutions.
• Research alternative technical solutions to meet changing business needs.


All About You:
• Expert programming skills in Java and micro-service development and junits.
• Proficient in architecture, design and implementation of micro services and distributed systems.
• Expertise with Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, Tomcat.
• Skilled in working with both SQL and NoSQL persistence technologies, e.g. Oracle, MongoDB.
• Proficiency in software development test approaches & frameworks: ATDD/BDD, Unit tests, Cucumber, Spock.
• Expertise working with cloud hosting technologies such as PCF, Azure.
• Command of CI/CD principles and tools such as Maven, Jenkins, Chef.
• Expertise in identifying performance bottlenecks and coming up with Client ways to solve them.
• Full stack engineering experience with Angular an advantage.
• Knowledge of event streaming frameworks, e.g Kafka
• Knowledge of Splunk, Dynatrace or other monitoring solutions an advantage.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Leadership, initiative and willingness to take on challenging opportunities.
• Highly motivated and interested in cultivating a high performance team environment.

Education
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or equivalent work
experience.

Corporate Security Responsibility
Every person working for, or on behalf of, Finance Company is responsible for information security. All activities involving access to Finance Company assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and therefore, it is expected that the successful candidate for this position must:

• Abide by Finance Company’s security policies and practices;
• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;
• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and
• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Finance Company’s guidelines.
 

Desired Skills and Experience

JAVA