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.
• Work to fulfill the ambitions of the team defined by Head of CoE 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 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.

Requirements

Skills

• Able to work independently and in a global team setup to take on initiatives with a positive attitude.
• Used to working and developing collaboratively (e.g. pair- or mob- programming), to giving and receiving feedback.
• Experience mentoring more junior developers.
• Good code review skills, pride 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.
• Structured, able 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 and willing to work with minimal direction.

Professional and technical requirements

• Relevant higher educational 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, entitlement aspects).
• Good knowledge of multi-threading and memory management.
• Experience building high-performance real-time systems, market data streaming ideal.
• Track record in delivering robust and scalable solutions.
• Willingness to participate in on-call support, including periodic on-call duty.
• A driver for standardization and automation within Julius Baer Markets Technology.
• Be a role model for junior team members.
• Foster the engineering culture within your team.
• Bring proven expertise in engineering practices 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.
• Familiar with functional programming, ideally in Java.
• Experience in solution architecture, able to specify and factor non-functional requirements into design and implementation.
• Familiarity with concepts and implementations related to security.

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