Developer - JAVA Full stack

About the position

We are looking for Language agnostic people, however below is the end to end tech stack we intend to use for developing our Credit Origination platforms. The position involves re-engineering legacy applications and building a state-of-the-art platform, envisioning the Credit Origination 2.0 platform, and aligning it with the Bank's NextGen technology vision. The role requires consistent delivery of valuable features, continual process improvements, and proposing new ways of fulfilling requirements.

Responsibilities

• Re-engineer legacy applications and build state of the art platform
• Envision Credit Origination 2.0 platform and align it with Bank's NextGen technology vision
• Consistently leads delivery of valuable features
• Continually looking for process improvements
• Proposes new ways of doing things
• Suggests novel ways to fulfil requirements
• Helps elaborate requirements where necessary
• Automates everything by default
• Can build a CD pipeline
• Automates security scanning and performance testing as part of build
• Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals
• Oversee assigned programs (e.g. conduct code review), set and monitor team standards
• Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
• Focus on reliability, performance and availability

Requirements

• In depth knowledge of IDE, language and toolset in language of choice
• Excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath
• Understanding of threads, threading model and concurrent programming
• Can profile and optimize code
• Good knowledge of other programming languages & paradigms and when to apply them
• Comfortable debugging/finding complex problems
• Can identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems
• Comfortable developing large features
• Understands Idempotence
• Understands boy scout principle. Leaves code in a better state than when arrived
• Good understanding of cohesion, SOLID and how to apply
• Writes clean, maintainable code
• Understands importance of domain model and can coherently model a problem domain within a given context
• Anticipates medium term (3-6 month) vectors of change and designs and abstracts accordingly
• Understands & appreciates simplicity & the value of removing code
• Understands design patterns such as CQRS and eventual consistency
• Understands how to design for performance at all levels
• Good grasp of multiple operating systems
• Good grasp of scripting techniques
• Expertise in one database & good grasp of multiple data storage paradigms and when to apply other technologies
• Understands and can automate paas technologies
• Understands when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies
• Understanding of network communications, including TCP/IP, HTTP protocols
• Writes Secure code by default
• Can use tools (nmap/metasploit etc.) to perform deep security probes
• Understands server hardening
• Understanding of security principles using SSL protocols and data encryption

Nice-to-haves

• Good to have experience in containerization technologies - Kubernetes

Benefits

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential