Senior Java Developer

Responsibilities

• Software Development: Design, develop, and maintain high-quality Java applications, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Code Review and Quality Assurance: Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to coding standards, best practices, and quality guidelines.
• Architecture and Design: Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to design robust and scalable software solutions, considering system requirements and constraints.
• Problem Solving: Analyze complex technical problems and propose innovative solutions, considering trade-offs between performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Testing and Debugging: Write unit tests, perform debugging, and troubleshoot issues to ensure software quality and reliability.
• Performance Optimization: Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize code, database queries, and system architecture to improve application performance.
• Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation, including design documents, API specifications, and deployment procedures.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and QA engineers, to deliver high-quality software solutions on time and within budget.

Required Experience

• 7+ years of overall software development experience in enterprise systems.
• 6+ years of software development experience in Core Java, including multi-threading.
• 5+ years of experience with Spring Boot and Spring Batch.
• 5+ years of microservice architecture and low-latency implementations.
• 3+ years of experience working with distributed caching systems.
• 3+ years implementing Apache Kafka data pipelines.
• 3+ years developing microservices on AWS.
• In-depth knowledge of Agile Software Development practices and how to leverage these to streamline project execution.
• Have the ability to decompose business problems into smaller parts to correctly determine a solution, always taking into consideration the impact on other subsystems.
• Team player with excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Familiar with software engineering practices, including CI/CD pipelines, Automated Testing, and Performance Engineering.
• Working knowledge of SDLC, especially regarding improving agile delivery metrics.
• Strong communication and team/technical leadership skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or a related field.
• Consulting experience.

Preferred Experience

• AWS certification
• Financial services experience

Doran Jones Inc. (DJI) is the leading financial services Data Engineering and Application Development firm, specializing in Capital Markets, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance. We are US-based, helping our clients fill gaps in capacity and expertise, reduce risk, and accelerate change. Our leaders average over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and Technology. DJI is repeatedly engaged by the largest and most complex clients for our Agile transformation expertise and practical understanding of the critical relationship between data, architecture, and application development. 

DJI has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at DJI. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm.

DJI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLaren Strategic Ventures, a private equity firm, that invests in start-ups and scale-ups. They provide a full range of highly trusted domain consulting, advisory services, and innovative technologies globally. Doran Jones is able to offer a broad range of technology, deeper AI and machine learning tools, data intelligence, alternative resourcing capabilities, and capital access to invest and digitize at scale. Our clients benefit from this unique portfolio allowing them to accelerate the pace of their own digital transformations through innovative products and services designed around industry-wide issues.

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