Senior Java Developer/Architect

Job Title: Senior Java Developer/Architect

Location: Montreal, QC

Duration: Long term

Responsibilities description:

• Define architecture and design for a resilient, scalable, and observable system.
• Perform hands-on development in an agile squad working with product owners, business analysts and other developers.
• Implement automated testing, leveraging unit tests and integration tests to validate every feature.
• Guide more junior developers helping them to adopt the best design, coding, and testing practices.
• Drive the team to follow the best DevOps practices.
• Focus on automation at every level of the SDLC.
• Understand the requirements, help defining milestones and backlog based on business priorities, team capability and velocity.
• Act as an end-to-end owner ensuring the system is developed, tested, deployed as planned and is performing as expected in production environments.
• Contribute to team standards and improving processes.

Skills required (essential):

• Hands-on, with 7+ years' experience in building distributed systems applying agile practices.
• Sound understanding of microservice architecture and design patterns, system resiliency, scalability, security, and observability.
• Ability to design and build automated test harnesses for microservices.
• Experience in designing and implementing messaging- and rest- based middleware and performing databases modelling.
• Strong working knowledge of core Java and Spring frameworks - including spring-boot and testing.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Skills desired (recommended):

• Understanding of Cloud-based application development, preferably with Microsoft Azure Cloud.

Familiarity with Kafka.
• Experience Angular UI development framework.
• Experience coordinating and mentoring a development team.
• Prior experience in FinTech application development.
• Experience with working in a global delivery team.