Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Java/Back-End
On-site · Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
Jersey City, New Jersey, United StatesOn-siteFull TimeSenior LevelLicense Or CertificationInvestment BankingEnterprise
Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
License Or Certification
Company size
Enterprise
Industry
Investment Banking
Job Summary
Senior Lead Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring back-end APIs and high-throughput, low-latency systems for financial services. Mentors agile teams; develops secure production code; guides architecture and design; expertise in REST/SOAP, AWS, Kafka, databases (Oracle, Cassandra, MySQL), Kubernetes/Docker, Terraform, CloudFormation; experience with testing, security, observability; preferred: shared libraries, large-scale enterprise experience.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Experience with strong architecture, design patterns, engineering best practices, analysis, design, security fundamentals, secure coding practices, and code review skills for internet applications.
- Experience with unit, integration, contract testing; experience with test automation frameworks and pipelines (JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test).
- Expertise in underlying third‐party SDKs/components and protocols: AWS SDKs, HTTP connections, IBM MQ, Kafka, Cassandra, Oracle, GraalVM, TLS 1.3.
- Proficiency in service development using REST and SOAP, strong API design fundamentals; JSON/XML messaging and SOA.
- Knowledge of Databases and Data access frameworks like MyBatis, Hibernate, Oracle, Cassandra, CockroachDB.
- Ability to build with cloud‐native microservices at scale: with Kubernetes/Docker/EKS, service discovery, configuration management; AWS services including NLB, ALB, SQS, Redis, S3, Route 53, API/NAT Gateways, Secrets Manager, IAM, VPC; IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation.
- Familiarity with Messaging and event streaming API's (Kafka), caching (Redis), and familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL datastores.
- Exposure with observability tooling and practices (metrics, tracing, logs) and performance benchmarking at scale.
- Proficiency in Network/Security: Kerberos, TLS 1.3, OAuth2, ADFS, Envoy Proxy, HAProxy, SpiderMesh, OWASP.
- Proficiency in Frameworks and libraries: Spring/Spring Boot, SLF4J, Jackson, Hystrix, JMS.
- Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills: Experience developing shared libraries/frameworks adopted by multiple product teams.
- Experience in large‐scale enterprise or financial services.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with strong architecture, design patterns, engineering best practices, analysis, design, security fundamentals, secure coding practices, and code review skills for internet applications.
- Experience with unit, integration, contract testing; experience with test automation frameworks and pipelines (JUnit, Mockito, Spring Test).
- Experience developing shared libraries/frameworks adopted by multiple product teams.
- Experience in large-scale enterprise or financial services.
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