Senior Software Developer - Java - 1402

About Role

You will be working on building the next generation large scale distributed system for processing, aggregating and reporting large volumes of data in real time through several query interfaces and an intuitive self-service UI. The product (ION ARC) enables our global diverse customer base to turn data into knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive, design, build, and deliver end-to-end functionalities using Agile and User Centered Design process.
• Hit the ground running with the typical Java ecosystem stack (dependency injection frameworks, Maven, Hibernate...)
• Guide the team on low level design for a modern scalable distributed system based on service-oriented architecture and SOLID design principles, using experience writing maintainable enterprise software applications for high frequency, low latency usage.
• Ensure efficient data structures and algorithms for processing huge volumes of data, deal with multi-process multi-machine concurrency and ensure vertical and horizontal scalability for operational efficiency.
• Leverage big data and cloud technologies for horizontal scalability and sub-second response times while retrieving huge volumes of data.
• Leverage Artificial Intelligence for enabling new and more efficient end user workflows.
• Contribute to building next generation self-service user interface for visualization of the aggregated data in intuitive ways.
• Innovate, recommend, design, drive product evolution that creates business value for the end user, reduces Total Cost of Ownership of the product and improves system performance even further.
• Take an end-to-end view of the entire product and be able to pick up new technologies along their whole development stack, including non-java ecosystems, when required for fulfilling the needs of the customers.
• Be passionate about delivering quality code and maintaining a culture of continuous learning & improvement in the team by identifying and actioning on technical debts/improvements.
• Be a firm believer in collaborating, sharing and learning with your colleagues.
• Enabling growth of the entire team by uplifting team's skill set through coaching and mentoring.
  
  

Required Skills, Experience, And Qualifications

• 4+ years of product development experience in designing and coding complex, enterprise applications.
• Java 8+, ORM frameworks (preferably hibernate using JPA), dependency injection frameworks (preferably spring or Guice).
• Have a deep understanding of multithreading, data structures and algorithms.
• Distributed Architecture Concepts/Design Patterns/SOLID principles (SOA, Microservices, Containers, Kubernetes, Cloud hosting Solutions preferably AWS).
• Knowledge of JMS, hands on experience with any one of messaging frameworks like Active MQ, Kafka.
• Hands on experience with database technologies, SQL concepts like DB Partitioning/Sharding and indexing.
• Exposure to Big data technologies and concepts like columnar storage (Apache Parquet), Arrow, Hadoop, Spark etc. will be a definite advantage.
• Knowledge of micro front-end HTMl5 architecture development using modern SPA frameworks like React or Angular will be an added advantage.
• Experience with classic AI development (pattern discovery, forecasting, anomaly detection etc.) and modern day LLM based app development using frameworks like LangChain and approaches like RAG (including Vector DB), REACT prompt engineering etc. will be a definite advantage.
• Test-driven development, which includes Unit and End-to-End Testing
• Experience with Agile software development (e.g., SCRUM or KANBAN) and/or User Centered Design process.
• Experience with build automation tools like Jenkins pipelines for Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD), dependency management using package managers like maven, gradle etc.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Entrepreneurial mindset to problem solving.
• Ability to break down complex problems into simpler sub-problems
• Collaboration skills
• Seeking feedback and continuously improving
  
  

About Us

We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. More than 40% of the world’s largest companies use our solutions. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.

• Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk.
• Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure.
  
  

With 10,000+ employees and offices in more than 40+ cities around the globe, ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group.

At ION, we offer careers that provide many opportunities: To invent. To design. To collaborate. To build. To transform businesses and empower people around the world to do more, faster and better than before. Imagine what you can do and experience. This is where you can do your best work.

Learn more at iongroup.com.