About the job

An exciting opportunity to join our client team, a major financial institution with a world class digital center in Romania, as a Java Software Engineer who will help architecting / implementing our client solutions, carrying out response activities in terms of technical analysis, solution design, high-level and detailed technical documentation, implementation and non-functional testing guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Client & server-side programming support in Java stack;
• Developing services to communicate with/aggregate data from sources using JSON REST/SOAP;
• Provides support for full implementation lifecycle of mobile apps and server-side solutions with ownership on solution implementation within high quality standards;
• Analysis, interpretation and validation of specification, carrying out responsible activities in terms of technical analysis documentation, analyzing the impact on the overall architecture;
• Doing performance analysis, monitoring strategies and execution, validation of technical design;
• Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation;
• Shares own expertise with others, support team colleagues and guides the team;
• Interface with other teams such as Business Analysts, Technical Analysts & Developers, Quality Engineers, Backend teams;
• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical issues;
• Work in fast paced environment with iterative releases to production using up to date development process (JIRA, GIT, Jenkins, etc.) and modern IDEs (i.e. IntelliJ IDEA);
• Modelling data components used on mobile clients for data representation and interaction;
• Doing code quality review, validation of technical design;
• Research of external services and APIs and making solutions proposals which fit target architecture;
• Liaison with enterprise Infrastructure for required hardware & software;
• Preparing estimations and high-level solutions; maintaining architectural/technical documentation.

Qualification and competencies

• Degree in Information Technology or equivalent;
• At least 3-5 years of experience in software delivery, design & development for mobile native / Java EE technologies
• Good grasp of programming base concepts and algorithms;
• Ability to technical drive the team;
• Experience developing with SOAP / REST Web Services and integrations via enterprise service bus;
• Knowledge of Spring based frameworks;
• Knowledge of service distributed applications;
• Knowledge of scalable architectures;
• Knowledge of DB architectures (especially Exadata);
• Experience with programing design & cryptography knowledge;
• Good customer facing skills and good command of English both spoken and written.

Technical nice to have

• Good usage knowledge of Splunk;
• Knowledge of Kotlin and Swift is an advantage, same for cryptography knowledge;
• Designing services to communicate with/aggregate data from sources using JSON REST/SOAP is an advantage;
• Real-life experience with performance inquiry and improvements (Dynatrace, PerfMon, JMeter, JProfiler);
• DevOps background

Personality & Soft Skills

• Teamwork, mentorship.
• Open-minded, structured and result oriented personality.
• Willing to learn new things.
• Pragmatic and problem-solving mind.
• Good negotiator focused on win-win solutions.
• Ability to work in challenging environment, “can do” and “extra mile” attitude.

What our client is offering

• Flexible working hours.
• The possibility of working remote 2 days / week.
• A professional but still friendly work environment.
• Access to internal benefits platform with a dedicated budget that you will be able to use, in order to choose the most suitable benefits for you.
• Healthcare services from one of the agreed providers (3 potential options).
• Holidays accorded based on your working experience (21 up to 25 days).
• Career in a leading international banking group, build on the diversity of its strong local roots.
• Dynamic and multinational environment, full of growing opportunities.
• Enhance knowledge and skills, setting solid foundations for a professional development in the IT area of the financial industry.