Core Java Developer - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities

• Understand complex business systems and workflows and explain them to other developers
• Exercise judgment within defined standard practices and procedures to analyze, test, design, program, debug, modify and implement system requirements
• Work closely with the business units and stakeholders on gathering and understanding system requirements
• Work closely with project management, product management and QA teams
• Plan and estimate the development for key components, applications and systems
• Balance design considerations with delivering specified requirements
• Solve business problems through the use of applied proven technologies
• Assist in developing and ensure complete functional and non-functional specifications
• Understand complex business logic in existing systems and transition it to new technologies and systems
• Work with system operations, database administration and systems software in production support and defining system recovery procedures
• Identify root causes and develop solutions for program failures
• Collaborate with business analysts and QA analysts in the design and execution of business feature, regression and integration testing
• Work in an agile and continuous integration environment with a command of SDLC tools
• Plan and execute unit tests to ensure the developed code is free of functional defects

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent
• 7+ years of progressive experience developing with Core Java technologies
• Strong professional knowledge of Java, Object-Oriented Development (OOD), Design Patterns, Distributed messaging, JMS, Spring and its frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data,
• PL/SQL, Hibernate, JPA, Multi-threaded server side development
• API-driven development methodology
• Back end REST-based services that interact with Kafka
• Experience in Java performance tuning, debugging and memory profiling
• Able to work productively under pressure, and multi-task effectively
• Able to juggle multiple projects
• Strong collaboration and technical skills in articulating technical infrastructure and concepts
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to work well in a team environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Familiar with Test Driven Development
• Exposure in the financial services technologies, particularly in futures and options
• Demonstrated contributions to open-source technologies