The Project: Modernization of Market Risk Limit Monitoring system from a traditional 3-tier application with a monolithic Sybase DB setup into a series of self-choreographing multi-instance micro-services. Each service to be implemented as Java Spring Boot application, which communicates using Kafka. MongoDB, local and distributed caching are employed by each micro-service as needed.
Core Technical Requirements and preferred skills for a candidate include:
Common Requirements:
Deep understanding of Computer Science related Principles, Data Structures, and Algorithms.
Ability to work both independently and closely with other team members.
Ability to communicate clearly.
Experience with standard DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, JIRA.
Core Java Developer Specific Requirements:
Strong hands-on knowledge of Core Java features: class loading, garbage collection, Java Collections API, Multithreading, Concurrency, Reflections API, Java Streams.
Experience working with Spring MVC framework, Spring boot, Rest API, JSON.
Hands-on with Event Streaming Platforms such as Kafka is a plus (“nice-to-have”).
Hands-on with MongoDB from an application developer perspective, is a plus (“nice-to-have”).