Java Application Developer

Overview

Hands-on Java developer role designing and implementing applications and services, working as part of a global distributed team with business analysts, technology and quality assurance teams.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and optimize scalable distributed data processing applications using Java, Apache Spark and Hive.
• Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to meet goals, and identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new products and process improvements.
• Resolve a variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards.
• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming, and ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Spark jobs, ensuring performance optimization and error resolution.
• Work on the modernization of big data architecture to meet business requirements in a financial services context.
• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.

What you'll need

• 6 to 11 years of hands-on experience in Java and J2EE as primary skills.
• High proficiency in Java, SQL and Spark.
• Strong experience with Apache Spark and Hadoop ecosystem tools such as Hive, HDFS, and YARN.
• Advanced knowledge of Java or Scala, and a good understanding of Python for data engineering tasks.
• Solid understanding of data modeling principles and ETL processes in big data environments.
• Strong ability to analyze and solve performance issues in Spark jobs and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Git, Jenkins, and other CI/CD tools for automating the deployment of big data applications.
• Bachelor's/University degree or equivalent experience.

Nice to have

• Hands-on big data development and Hadoop, focusing on Spark and distributed systems.
• Experience of development and using test automation frameworks.
• Understanding of microservice architecture and best practices and patterns, preferably using Spring Boot.
• Experience with containerization: building images and running containers.
• Understanding of dependency injection and experience with DI frameworks (Spring, Guice, Dagger2, etc.).
• Experience with message brokers (Apache Kafka, Solace, RabbitMQ, etc.).

Details

• Full time.
• Job family: Applications Development (Technology group).