Java Lead – Vice President, Software Engineer

Overview

Lead the design, development and maintenance of highly scalable, high-throughput Prime Brokerage Custody transaction processing platforms as a Vice President-level Java Software Engineer. Collaborate with clients, stakeholders and globally distributed engineering teams to deliver cloud-ready transaction processing systems.

What you'll do

• Design, develop and maintain highly scalable and high-throughput Prime Brokerage Transactions booking platforms.
• Optimize application performance and scalability.
• Implement data quality and data governance standards.
• Collaborate with technology and business stakeholders to understand data needs, translate them into technical solutions and provide data-driven insights.
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing within the team by creating and maintaining technical documentation and training materials.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to improving development processes.
• Contribute to the broader data architecture community through knowledge sharing and presentations.
• Lead and contribute to the evolution of platform capabilities spanning electronic trading, asset capture, processing and matching engines, workflow and rules engines, and clearing and settlement.

What you'll need

• At least 8+ years’ relevant experience.
• Strong design and implementation fundamentals as a superior technologist.
• Strong design skills for building scalable systems.
• Strong experience developing enterprise-level systems using Java and Spring.
• Strong experience implementing multithreaded applications and concurrency solutions.
• Hands-on experience with modern distributed technologies such as messaging brokers, including Kafka, and distributed caching solutions.
• Experience with Agile development techniques.
• Deep understanding of systems engineering, build and release management principles, including continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Experience with application integration, software design patterns, frameworks, unit testing, automated testing, performance and memory analysis, and n-tier service-oriented architecture.
• Responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools to transform software delivery and developer productivity.
• Experience leveraging technologies such as Claude, AMP, Deep Search and other emerging AI capabilities to accelerate software development, streamline engineering workflows and improve developer effectiveness.
• Strong fundamentals of domain-, event- and message-driven architecture and REST services.
• Understanding of Docker and container orchestration.
• Experience with databases.
• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Information System or equivalent field.
• Proficiency in Java and Spring programming skills.
• Proficiency in using frontier AI tools such as Claude and Copilot.
• Proficiency in specification-based AI coding.
• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL database systems.
• Experience working on Snowflake and Databricks.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure and their data services.
• Experience with message queues and streaming platforms such as Kafka.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a geographically distributed team.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of AI/ML.
• Hands-on experience implementing solutions using Generative AI.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.
• The role involves working with a globally distributed engineering team and onshore/offshore teams.
• The role includes collaboration with external clients and internal stakeholders.