Java Developer

Job Description Junior Java Developer We are seeking a motivated Junior Java Developer to join our technology team within a leading banking environment. This role is ideal for candidates with 1–3 years of experience who are passionate about software development and eager to build, enhance, and support mission-critical banking applications. Team Working in a fast-paced team, you will work to improve the low latency, scalability, and speed of their current trading platform, as well as a new feature, builds. Your work is largely autonomous and hands-on, situated in the interface of the Front office trading Development team. Key Responsibilities • You will participate in the full software development lifecycle of Banking applications up to the delivery of the successful project • Full-stack development. Primarily server side coding using the Spring framework with some front-end web development in ReactJS. • Writing of test scripts. • Participate in the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirement analysis, development, testing, deployment, and support. • Develop and maintain RESTful APIs and backend services. • Collaborate with business analysts, QA teams, and senior developers to deliver • high-quality solutions. • Dev L3 support. • Build, deployment and release tasks. Production releases are done over weekends on a rotational basis. • Related system integration and infrastructure tasks, eg. basic webserver, database, middleware configuration. • Create the necessary documentation and paperwork required throughout the development lifecycle. • Working in a flexible Agile environment • Analysis, proposing, building, testing, fixing, and integrating the new software, as well as enhancements of currently built solutions. • Analysis and improving the performance, scalability, and reliability of the platform. • Cooperation and collaboration with technical and business teams Basic Qualifications • 1 to 3+ years experience in Java • Bachelor Degree in computer science or similar. Other requirements • Familiarity with working in a full stack capacity within an agile team. • Familiarity with Maven/Gradle and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins. • Ideally have worked on both front-end and server-side. • Experience with Java • Knowledge of Spring framework. • Exposure to cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a plus. • RESTful API development. • Experience with relational databases, especially Oracle. • Comfortable using Maven, Git and Bitbucket. • Optional: JavaScript. • Optional: Knowledge of ReactJS or another popular JS framework. • Optional: Microservices architecture, bash scripting. • Experience in building scalable and distributed systems • Knowledge in FX trading • Good problem solving and analytical skills • Ability to "think outside the box" • Good knowledge of Linux • Proficient with SQL • Clear communication skills • Multithreading Technologies Used · Core Java · AngularJS · Springboot · SQL · MQ/Kafka