Java Engineer

Job description

Tasks

• Contribute to the strengthening of the team spirit and the fostering of a collaborative work environment across locations.
• Mentor, motivate and provide guidance/feedback to junior team members.
• Drive to fulfill the ambitions of the team defined by the Head of Code Software Solutions.
• Actively participate and support the head of the team to regularly review and improve team practices to optimize efficiency and productivity.
• Continuously drive and improve systems.
• Effective and progressive management of all stakeholders and users of applications supported by the team.
• Solicit and discuss requirements and solutions with business owners and stakeholders.
• Provide regular updates to key stakeholders through the various channels used by the team.
• Actively participate and support Program Increment (PI) planning process.
• Support change management and release rollout planning.
• Provide dedicated post-implementation support locally in Asia.
• Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviors including, but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due-care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, continuous and comprehensive development, adequate risk management, and compliance with specific laws and regulations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement high-quality software solutions for our financial products and services.

Requirements

Personal and social skills

• Able to work independently and in a global team setup to take on initiatives with a positive attitude.
• Used to dealing and developing collaboratively (e.g. pair- or solo programming), to giving and receiving feedback.
• Experience mentoring more junior developers.
• Good code review skills, agile in code quality.
• Focused, capable of driving the delivery of technical changes to completion.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with the occasional priority changes and context switches.
• Strong, agile to follow processes systematically.
• Very good English communication skills.
• A team player.
• Able to work in an agile environment.
• Positive thinking personality with a can-do attitude.
• Self-motivated, able to work with internal direction.

Professional and technical skills

• Relevant higher education and professional background with a minimum of 5 years of experience developing with Java, with at least 2 years on Java 11 or higher.
• Knowledge of market data (asset classes, data vendors, event-driven aspects).
• Good knowledge of full-stack development and middleware management.
• Experience building high-performance real-time systems, market data streaming ideal.
• Track record in delivering robust and scalable solutions.
• Willing to be on call in production support, including possible on-call duty.
• Be a driver for standardization and automation within Julius Baer Markets Technology.
• Foster the engineering culture within your team.
• Bringing expertise in programming paradigms and processes and have experience operating and supporting critical business systems on a global scale.
• Your experience with microservices, cloud-native applications and distributed systems will help us propel our business growth.
• Experience in solution architecture, able to specify and factor non-functional requirements into design and implementation.
• Familiarity with concepts and implementations related to security.
• Familiarity with lifecycle activities, capacity management, observability.
• Experience with DevOps culture: scripting, guidelines, continuous integration, monitoring, etc.
• Experience with Agile/SAFe methodology, prior use of Jira and Confluence.
• Knowledge of Jenkins, Grafana, Octopus, Kubernetes.

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