**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 fill the ambitions of the team defined by the Head of C&SS 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 changes to existing 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, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable 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 (agile/ pair- or solo programming), to giving and receiving feedback.
• Experience mentoring 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 and 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 minimal direction.
• Very good English and communication skills.

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-time streaming and memory management.
• Experience building high-performance real-time systems, market data streaming ideal.
• Track record in delivering robust and scalable solutions.
• Willing to work on application support, including periodic 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.
• 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.
• Graduate DevOps culture: scripting, java/ python, deployments, etc.
• Experience with Agile/SAFe methodology, prior use of Jira and Confluence.
• Knowledge of Jenkins, Grafana, Octopus, Kubernetes.

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