Overview

Lab49 has an opportunity available for a Java Developer to lead work on complex and challenging projects to drive transformative change for our top- tier Financial Services clients. Operating in an Agile environment, the Java Developer will have strong server-side experience to work on next- generation financial systems.

Responsibilities

    • Build distributed systems that deal with actor-based concurrency, reactive programming, distributed in-memory data grids, messaging that goes beyond plain JMS as we fully expect to participate in shaping the future of financial technology stacks
    • Work on server side JVM-based projects
    • Hit the ground running with the typical Java or Scala JVM ecosystem stack (Spring and its subprojects, Guice, Guava, Maven, Hibernate, Jetty, etc.)
    • Retool continuously as the technology landscape changes every few years
    • Be able to pick up other technologies along the whole development stack, including front-end and other non-JVM ecosystems
    • Work with our clients in iterative, project-based engagements, where self-organizing and focused teams move quickly to build innovative solutions for the client
    • Have the desire to collaborate, and like sharing and learning from your colleagues
    • Be passionate about delivering quality code
    • Demonstrate experience writing commercial-grade software applications
    • Have a deep understanding of multithreading and real-time software architectures
    • Have an abiding interest in and competence for solving real-world business problems (with technology as an enabler)
    • Be determined to succeed despite obstacles and challenges, as well as a positive attitude favoring achievement of goals over open-ended investigation 

Required Skills and Experience

    • 5+ years of recent hands-on experience in designing and coding complex, enterprise, commercial-grade applications in core, server-side Java, ideally Java 8+
    • Experience building RESTful Web Services
    • Test-driven development, which includes Unit and End-to-End Testing
    • Experience with Agile software development (e.g. SCRUM or KANBAN)
    • Experience in a CI/CD environment
    • Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experience
    • Experience with, knowledge of, and strong demonstrated interest in, global financial markets and financial products.