Full Stack Java Developer

Astek; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Astek in Montreal, Canada, seeks a Senior Developer with cloud architecture exposure to join our team building a resilient, scalable cloud-based settlement platform. You will participate in requirements refinement sessions, architecture, design, and implementation—writing code and automated tests, and creating CI/CD pipelines following DevOps standards.

In our agile environment, you will interact directly with users, product owners, and analysts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building distributed systems in agile environments.
• Strong Java and Spring (Spring Boot) knowledge.
• Experience with microservices, resilience, scalability, security, and observability.
• Experience designing high-volume messaging and REST-based middleware and data modeling.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and cloud development principles.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in refinement sessions to ensure clear requirements.
• Write clean, performant, scalable, testable code and build automated tests.
• Mentor junior developers to follow best software development practices.
• Follow DevOps practices – create CI/CD pipelines and telemetry.
• Contribute to enhancing team standards and improving processes.

Job description

We are looking for a Senior developer, preferably with exposure to Cloud Architectures & Public Cloud offerings, to join our team building a resilient, scalable, and secure cloud-based settlement platform. You will be participating in the requirements refinement sessions, working on architecture, design, and implementation - writing code and automated tests, creating CI/CD pipelines following the best software development and DevOps standards. In our agile environment, you will have to interact directly with the users, product owners, business analysts, and other technologists across the firm. If you have a track record of building large-scale distributed applications, preferably on Azure/Cloud, we'd like to meet you.

Responsibilities:

• Actively participate in the refinement sessions to ensure the requirements are clearly defined.
• Write clean, performant, scalable, testable, and reusable code and build automated tests.
• Guide more junior developers helping them to follow the best software development practices.
• Follow the best DevOps practices - create CI/CD pipelines, enable capturing telemetry, etc.
• Contribute to enhancing team standards and improving processes.

Skills Required (essential):

• Hands-on, with 5+ years' experience in building distributed systems applying agile practices.
• Strong working knowledge of core Java and Spring frameworks, including spring-boot, etc.
• Sound understanding of microservice architecture and design patterns, system resiliency, scalability, security, and observability.
• Experience in designing and implementing high volume messaging- and rest- based middleware and defining database models (relational or others).
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
• Familiarity with cloud-based development principles.
• Fast learner and desire to constantly learn and improve.
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science or in a related field.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Skills Desired (recommended):

• Experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Experience with Angular.
• Familiarity and experience integrating custom software with Microsoft Dynamics 360.
• Familiarity with Kafka and Mongo DB.
• Prior experience in FinTech applications