Senior Java Engineer

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Your Challenge
General description
We are seeking an experienced Java Developer to join our market data team.

You will be participating in a major refactoring of the market data distribution platform, implementing new components and extending existing capabilities once the platform is migrated.

Your strong background in solution architecture and your extensive implementation experience will allow you to lead the way in evolving our complex platform, ensuring its reliability, flexibility and performance.


Responsibilities
Contribute to the strengthening of the team spirit and the fostering of a collaborative work environment across locations.


Mentor, motivate and provide guidance/feedback to junior team members.


Work to fulfil the ambitions of the team defined by Head of CoE Software Solutions.


Actively participate and support the head of the team to regularly review and improve team practices to optimise efficiency and productivity.


Continuously drive and improve systems.


Effective and progressive management of all stakeholders and users of applications supported by the team.


Solicit and discuss requirements and solutions with business owners and stakeholders.


Provide regular updates to key stakeholders through the various channels used by the team.


Actively participate and support Program Increment (PI) planning process.


Support change management and release rollout planning.


Provide dedicated post implementation support locally in Asia.


Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing, management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.


Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement high-quality software solutions for our financial products and services.


Diagnose and resolve technical issues across the stack, providing support for both development and production environments.


Provide periodic on-call duty support.


Your Profile
Skills Requirements
Personal and Social
Able to work independently and in a global team setup to take on initiatives with a positive attitude.


Used to designing and developing collaboratively (e.g. pair- or mob- programming), to giving and receiving feedback
Experience mentoring more junior developers
Good code review skills, pride in code quality
Focused, capable of driving the delivery of technical changes to completion
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the occasional priority changes and context switches
Structured, able to follow processes systematically
Very good English and communication skills
A team player
Ability to work in an agile environment
Positive thinking personality with a can-do attitude
Self-motivator, able and willing to work with minimal direction
Professional and Technical
Relevant higher educational and professional background with a minimum of 5 years of experience developing with Java, with at least 2 years on Java 11 or higher
Knowledge of market data (asset classes, data vendors, entitlement aspects)
Good knowledge of multi-threading and memory management
Experience building high-performance real-time systems, market data streaming ideal
Track record in delivering robust and scalable solutions
Willingness to participate in application support, including periodical on-call duty
Be a driver for standardization and automation within Julius Baer Markets Technology
Foster the engineering culture within your team
Bring proven expertise in engineering practices and processes and have experience operating and supporting critical business systems on a global scale.


Your experience with microservices, cloud-native applications and distributed systems will help us propel our business growth
Desirable Requirements
Cloud concepts and experience, in particular Azure
Kafka experience
Test driven development, experience of JUnit and mocking libraries (e.g. Mockito)
Previous experience in the finance industry, particularly front-office functions
Familiar with functional programming, ideally in Java
Experience in solution architecture, able to specify and factor non-functional requirements into design and implementation
Familiarity with concepts and implementations related to security
Familiarity with lifecycle activities, capacity management, observability
General DevOps culture: scripting, pipelines, deployments, certificates
Experience with Agile/SAFe methodology, prior use of Jira and Confluence
Knowledge of Jenkins, Grafana, Octopus, Kubernetes
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