Senior Code Designer

PROGRAM PLANNING PROFESSIONALS PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Singapore is seeking a Senior Developer with extensive experience in Java, Spring, and Cloud solutions. The ideal candidate will align technical designs and functional architectures, contributing to high-quality web applications while participating in all phases of development and implementation. This role demands strong problem-solving skills, exceptional communication, and the ability to thrive in a high-pressure environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience in development.
• Experience in capital market applications and financial products.
• Strong understanding of recent Java language features.

Responsibilities

• Align technical design with functional architecture design.
• Review and merge code to the central repository.
• Develop solutions following defined standards and high quality.

Skills

Java

Spring

AngularJS

SQL

Problem Solving

Communication

Unix/Linux Shell Scripting

Tools

JIRA

GitLab

Jenkins

SonarQube

Job description

Main Responsibilities

Within the team, the successful candidate has to:

• Align technical design with functional architecture design.
• Write detailed technical designs and API contracts.
• Draw sequence diagrams of process workflows.
• Review and merge code to the central repository.
• Study, evaluate, understand, and provide feedback on functional specifications.
• Develop solutions following defined standards and high quality.
• Provide detailed estimation for the development of solutions.
• Study, evaluate, understand and provide feedback on functional specifications
• Develop solutions following defined standards and high quality
• Provide detailed estimation for development of solutions
• Implement solutions using TDD
• Implement BDD for the features
• Perform non-functional testing
• Prepare documentation for design and implementation
• Enable and support functional and user acceptance testing
• Support applications in production - analyze and resolve issues as they arise
• Work with various technical/functional teams to ensure proper delivery
• Maintain lessons learnt, release post mortem outcomes and convert them into best practices
• Automation approach or suggest automation as and when applicable
• Be in the forefront of communications and having good relationship with any stakeholder involved

Qualifications and Profile

• Candidates should have minimum 10 years experience in relevant activities.

Technical

• Solution design using proven patterns, awareness of anti-patterns, performance tuning.
• Develop and maintain web applications using Java/J2EE, Spring, AngularJS, Spring MVC/Struts, Multi-threading, Restful web services,Swagger, JMS/WebSphere MQ, JavaScript, JQuery, XML, XSLT, XPath, XSD.
• A strong understanding of recent Java language features
• Design and implement user interfaces using ReactJS, AngularJS, TypeScript, and UI component libraries such as Material-UI.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designers to translate designs into high-quality code and ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs.
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability.
• Ensure reliable and scalable message processing using Kafka.
• Work with NoSQL databases like MongoDB, and experience in best practices for NoSQL DB performance.
• Work with relational databases – MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL.
• Source management – SVN/GIT, TDD using Junit, DBUnit, Jira / QC.
• Application server – Jboss / WildFly / Websphere.
• Write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
• Well experienced and having a good understanding of SQL language.
• Well experienced and having a good understanding of Unix/Linux Shell Scripting.
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Maven, GitLab, Jenkins, SonarQube, and other deployment tools.
• Exposure to DevOps tools.
• Knowledge of implementing solutions on the Cloud, preferably AWS.

Functional

• Experience in supporting capital market applications and trading systems, ideally within the dynamic landscape of Market Risk/Front Office operations with a commendable grasp of financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD, Bonds, RSF etc.)

Nice to Have

• Experience in Business intelligence tools
• Experience in working with application monitoring and automation,
• Experience in Banking environment, especially in Capital Market IT

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management
• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’ skills.
• Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player