Project Description:

• Support an iconic Australian brand as they seek to replace and modernise core trading and clearing platforms.
• You will be working on the latest technologies (AWS, Java Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Kafka) in a greenfield project building out new digital experiences and core trading capability for this major financial institution.

Responsibilities:

• As a Back-end developer within the Futures Integration squad, you will be implementation a new Futures product system migrating away from a monolithic legacy application into a new distributed application based on micro-services supported by a Kafka back-end.
• You will be expected to participate in both the solution design and execution.

Mandatory Skills Description:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent IT discipline.
• 7+ years of relevant working experience
• 5+ years of experience building micro services on Kubernetes using NodeJS
• Worked with enterprise CI/CD capabilities and tools, providing guidance on best practices and helping enable major programs to deliver business value.
• Experience designing, building and testing Java applications, micro services, data streaming capabilities.
• Experience with API Swagger design
• Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Architecture certifications on AWS (Preferred) or GCP including Kubernetes
• Experience on Apache Kafka / Confluent Kafka
• Experience in designing and integrating RESTful APIs
• Experience with Object-Oriented Design (OOD)
• Good delegation and time management skills
• Problem-solving abilities
• Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation, and deployment
• Engage with inspiring designers and front-end engineers, and collaborate with leading back-end engineers to create reliable APIs
• Collaborate across time zones via documents, and frequent videoconferences
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Experience in unit/integration and Non-Functional testing
• Experience with complex data structures and semi structured data (JSON, XML)

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Experience building micro services using Java Spring Boot
• Experience logging & Monitoring tools like Open Telemetry & Cloud Observability - Lightstep
• Experience in working with React applications
• Excellent debugging and optimization skills
• Experience in unit/integration testing