Intermediate Java Cloud Developer

QUANTEAM (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consultancy company in Singapore is seeking an Intermediate Java Cloud Developer with strong experience in software development, particularly in Java. The role involves leading technical studies, documenting designs, and ensuring the integration of hardware and software systems. Candidates should be familiar with cloud operations and possess skills in Docker/Kubernetes. This is an excellent opportunity for those interested in tackling complex technological challenges in capital markets.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience.
• 3+ years experience specifically with Java.
• Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical studies to propose solutions with expertise.
• Document design and develop the proposed solutions.
• Monitor technical risks and elevate them to management.

Skills

Java

Software development

Cloud operations

Docker/Kubernetes

SQL

Tools

Maven

Git

Linux

Job description

Intermediate JAVA Cloud Developer

• We seek innovative and agile people sharing our Client's mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

Department and Team

Capital Market IT is the IT department of our Client focused on solutions related to Capital Markets. This includes Front Office (FO) booking platforms, Risk Management (RM) control and regulatory reporting systems, financial product and contract valuation systems, and much more. It is the department most directly exposed to the bank's financial operations.

They have an ambitious project to revamp the existing counterparty risk system, and move it onto the cloud. The application and its uses are extremely complex, comprising a grid computing component (with containerized workers orchestrated using ArmoniK as grid computing middleware), an electronic trading component, a live credit check component (on the critical path for trading), and much more.

Position

You are an ambitious and motivated intermediate Java developer with some experience with Docker/Kubernetes, who is interested in building large, distributed cloud-native applications. Your core Java knowledge should be strong. Experience with modern cross-platform .NET (because ArmoniK is written in C#) would be useful, especially for deployment. Experience with Go (because Docker/Kubernetes are written in Go) would also be useful. Experience with C++ (because the quant library is written in C++) would be helpful. Experience with ArgoCD, cloud ops (especially on AWS but any relevant experience on competing platforms would be helpful), Terraform, and other cloud-focused DevOps skills would be useful, although this is not a DevOps role.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead technical study into a proposed solution, while involving expertise from infrastructure big data expert, business analyst requirement
• Document proposed design and develop the solution
• Implicitly ensure all CI-CD artefacts are part of the solution
• Perform code review while fostering knowledge and coaching best practices to team members
• Interact and provide reporting to project managers
• Monitor technical risk and elevate appropriately to management
• Research, design, and develop software.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with other engineers to integrate hardware and/or software systems

The position requires autonomy and reliability in performing duties with initiatives and leadership when it comes to all non-functional deliverables such as testing tools, mocking objects, production monitoring concerns, quality control including performance and load testing.

Qualifications and Profile

The successful candidate will definitely have:

• At least 4 years of software development experience
• At least 3 years experience working with Java
• An understanding of recent Java language features, such as lambdas, streams, and futures
• Knowledge of algorithms and data structures, with fundamentals in complexity analysis
• Good ability to analyze code - understand execution flow & demo even without access to a debugger
• Experience with Maven, Git, writing and maintaining integration tests
• Familiarity with Linux and bash
• Good knowledge of SQL

An ideal candidate will also have some or all of the following:

• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience working with cloud providers, especially AWS
• Git and a Git-portal like Gitlab or GitHub
• Jira or a similar issue-tracking system
• The Spring framework and IoC, and particularly Spring Boot and Swagger for restful web services
• Experience with Spark

Additionally, knowledge of the following would be helpful although it is not required:

• Familiarity with languages some important components used by the system are written in: C#, Go, C++
• Understanding of and interest in finance & financial markets, and in particular counterparty risk systems