Java Developer

ALLTECH CONSULTING SVC INC; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global financial services firm in California is seeking a Senior Developer to join their Services Technology team. The ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of experience in Java backend engineering, with strong proficiency in Spring Boot and SQL. Responsibilities include architectural design, coding, and collaborating with various teams to deliver innovative technology solutions. This role offers the chance to work closely with business users while troubleshooting and improving current systems in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years in Java backend engineering with Java 11+.
• Experience in Spring Boot and REST API design.
• Proficient in SQL with schema design and query optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural design for complex business processes.
• Collaborate with teams for project development and implementation.
• Troubleshoot live issues and improve existing systems.

Skills

Java backend engineering

Spring Boot

SQL proficiency

JMeter

Clear communication

Tools

Jira

Git

Kubernetes

Job description

Company Profile

At our Company, we advise, originate, manage and distribute capital for governments, institutions, and individuals, and always do so with a standard of excellence. We are a leading global financial services firm that conducts its business through three principal business segments, Institutional Securities, Wealth Management (WM), and Investment Management.

The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. Our WM business is one of the largest in the world with more than $2 trillion in client assets, $73 billion in lending balances, and nearly 16,000 Financial Advisors in 600+ offices across the U.S. Our Financial Advisors focus on delivering timely, customized solutions and services that help clients meet their financial and life goals. Our offering includes brokerage and investment advisory services, financial and wealth planning, access to credit and lending, cash management, annuities and insurance, and retirement services. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. We can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career – a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Department Profile Services Technology

Services Technology is a dynamic and fast-paced area within the Firm’s WM Technology Division. We are responsible for creating innovative technology solutions for the Account Opening (AO), one of the strategic growth areas of the Firm, providing document management, workflow and services to our WM clients. This includes state-of-the-art technology for a nationwide network of Private Bankers and product specialists who work with Financial Advisors to provide access to products and services such as online banking, cards, deposit products, residential mortgages, securities-based loans and tailored lending. If you are an exceptional individual who is interested in solving complex problems and building sophisticated solutions in a dynamic team environment, Services Technology is the place for you.

Role & Responsibilities

• Self-starter who is proficient in development with Process Development, Headless REST APIs, JAVA, JEE, Spring, Git and other Frameworks with experience in guiding Project teams with full life cycle of development/design and requirements gathering
• Strong developer with hands‑on experience in coding, delivering quality code and writing quality unit test cases using Jmeter.
• In the role of a Sr. developer/lead, the resource will be involved in architecting and designing complex business processes and find solutions for the business problems.
• Collaborate and lead discussions offering expert opinions w.r.t design and implementation.
• The resource will also be actively working on enhancements and fixes in these areas. The resource will be working closely with the users in resolving issues and answering questions.
• Participate in design review and peer code review. Understand the build and deployment process and be a go to person for troubleshooting live issues.
• Strong understanding of Jmeter and experience with building test automation suite using Jmeter

Required qualifications

• 5 -7 years in Java backend engineering with Java 11+, strong with Java 21 features and performance (incl. virtual threads exposure preferred).
• Spring Boot 2/3, Spring Web, Data JPA, Validation, Scheduling, REST API design and documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger).
• SQL proficiency (PostgreSQL/Oracle/SQL Server), schema design, query optimization.

Testing

• JUnit 5, Mockito, Test containers, CI/CD with TeamCity, code quality (SonarQube).
• Containers/Kubernetes basics, config management, GitOps workflows.
• Observability: logs/metrics/traces using Splunk/Dynatrace (or similar).
• Secure coding, authN/Z, and enterprise network patterns (whitelisting, proxies).
• Build secure services (Kerberos/OAuth2/SSO), input validation, and audit/logging.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture, and production incident response/on-call.

Soft skills

• Clear communicator, concise incident/runbook writing.
• Ownership mindset, collaborates with QA/DevOps/Product, supports cross‑time zone teams.

Nice to have

• Messaging with JMS/IBM MQ/ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ, retry/DLQ patterns.
• Any experience in UI frameworks (Angular/React) Performance profiling (JFR, async-profiler) and memory/GC tuning.
• GraphQL, Kafka, Redis caching, or Pact contract testing.