Description
Our client is looking for a Java Developer with AWS certification. This is a 6-12 months contract role inside IR35 in London, UK.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
This role is responsible for:
- Develop new functionality and maintain the company's trading platform.
- Initiatives include product enhancements and new workflows for trading, and Server Side programming and messaging
- Perform above duties utilizing Java, AWS, PostgreSQL, Spring Boot, Gradle, Redis.
- Improve the scale and performance of the growing system
- Coordinate with business analysts and quality assurance on a daily basis
- Present technical designs of work performed to the various groups (including Development, QA, BA and the business)
General Support Responsibilities Include:
- Production support, including investigating and fixing production issues
Knowledge/Experience
- Should be AWS Certified Developer .
- 8+ year's delivery experience of enterprise applications within the Java development stack.
- Delivery experience of re-engineering Legacy programs to distributed systems would be a bonus.
- Implementation experience in Application Server clustering, performance tuning and scalability testing to support high throughput, moderate latency, high availability systems.
- Experience including analysis, design, coding and implementation of large-scale custom built object-oriented applications.
- Strong OO design knowledge, including extensive design patterns knowledge.
- Excellent Core Java skills, Enterprise RDBMS (ideally PostgreSQL)
- Experience with container-based event-driven micro services architecture using ECS, Spring Boot, and REST API.
- Proven record with AWS services - ElastiCache, Kafka, Kinesis, Lambdas, IAM, API Gateway, Cloud Formation.
- Extensive experience in multi-threaded programming
- Experience working with FIX messaging
- Experience working in Agile Environment
- Delivery experience using continuous integration - ideally Jenkins
- Working within (and knowledge of) the financial industry is a bonus
The candidate MUST be eligible to work in UK.