Senior Java Engineer - PDS at Impact

Why this role is exciting:

• As a Java Engineer, you will be responsible for delivery and supporting features for Impact systems. This person will be part of an Agile / Scrum team and is expected to mentor squad members.
• An ideal candidate for this role would be a competent Java Engineer with a proven track record of project delivery that has a deep understanding of Elastic Search with experience optimising and performance tuning Elastic clusters.

Responsibilities:

• Review business requirements; design, implement and test solutions; and, perform code reviews.
• Gain and maintain a deep understanding of the business and product domain to deliver effective solutions.
• Provide transparency through daily Scrums, Kanban (or similar).
• Identify, raise and address system vulnerabilities and technology blockers for the squad.
• Optimize code and streamline processes to improve performance and platform stability and reduce overall system load.
• Respond to alerts, review error messages, and fix bugs in a timely manner
• Work in a distributed and agile environment.
• Develop code both independently and while pair programming
• Responsible for continuous improvement of developer productivity.

Does this sound like you?

• BSc in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of Java software development experience
• Excellent communication, organizational, and problem solving skills
• Intimate knowledge of Computer Science principles and fundamentals
• Experience with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, DOM and frameworks (jQuery, React, Vue.js, etc.)
• Knowledge of distributed systems preferred
• Experience working in the finance domain preferred

Key Knowledge Requirements

• Spring Framework
• Elasticsearch
• Java 7, Java 8
• MySQL
• Git
• Popular testing frameworks (jUnit, TestNG etc.)
• Popular mocking frameworks (JMockit, Mockito etc.)
• JIRA
• Continuous Integration