Job Description
A leading global financial-services organization is seeking an accomplished Director-level Software Engineer to design and develop cloud-native applications supporting critical business and analytics functions.
This opportunity is ideal for a highly experienced Java engineer who remains deeply hands-on, enjoys solving complex technical challenges, and has a proven history of building scalable applications from scratch.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop Java and Spring Boot applications, APIs, and microservices.
- Build event-driven architectures and Kafka streaming solutions.
- Own development across architecture, coding, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Develop scalable and resilient cloud-native applications on AWS.
- Design distributed systems with strong availability, performance, and fault tolerance.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and analytics stakeholders.
- Provide technical leadership through mentoring, code reviews, and best practices.
- Support continued development of sophisticated digital and data-driven platforms.
Role Requirements
- Extensive hands-on Java development experience, ideally 12+ years.
- Strong Spring Boot and microservices development.
- Experience implementing Kafka-based event-driven applications.
- Proven experience building complex software platforms from scratch.
- AWS cloud-native development and deployment experience.
- Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized application environments.
- Strong distributed-systems architecture and troubleshooting capabilities.
- Experience with SQL, automated testing, and CI/CD.
- Excellent technical leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Nice to Have
- Financial-services or investment banking technology experience.
- React, Angular, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Salesforce, CRM, or business intelligence applications.
- Modern data engineering or analytics tools.
- Exposure to enterprise AI-enabled applications.