Distinguished 10x Engineer (Java Full-Stack)

A hands-on senior engineer and architect responsible for designing, developing, and guiding the delivery of scalable, high-quality server-side and client-side applications within the platform group. Operates as a full-stack technical leader with strong architectural ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture design and technical reviews across multiple engineering pods, ensuring adherence to best practices and high-quality standards.
• Demonstrate proficiency in leveraging AI-powered coding tools, such as Windsurf, to enhance software development efficiency and code quality.
• Possess the ability not only to understand broader technical and business strategies but also to define these strategies and effectively implement them by leading and collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Provide solution architecture and design guidance to internal teams and clients leveraging the platforms products.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers on software design principles, clean coding practices, and professional development.
• Develop rapid, functional prototypes to validate architectural approaches and serve as reference implementations.
• Define and influence non-functional requirements, including performance, scalability, resiliency, and recoverability.
• Advocate modern engineering practices such as reactive and non-blocking programming and contract-first API design.
• Present architectural designs to the Architecture Review Board and communicate platform capabilities to stakeholders at all levels.
• Collaborate with architects across platform groups to ensure alignment with enterprise architectural standards and strategies.
• A background in Markets and Regulatory Reporting is highly beneficial, as it provides valuable insight into industry-specific requirements and enhances the ability to architect compliant and effective solutions.
• Exhibit strong critical thinking and communication skills, enabling clear articulation of complex ideas and effective problem-solving in dynamic team environments.

Qualifications

Languages & Frameworks

• Strong proficiency in Java, RESTful APIs, and streaming APIs.
• Extensive experience with Spring Framework, Hibernate, and Spring Boot.
• Solid front-end and full-stack experience using JavaScript, Angular (v11+), HTML, CSS, Node.js, and JSON.
• Hands-on system design experience
• Deep hands-on expertise with XML technologies including XSD and XSLT.

Data & Integration

• Strong experience working with relational databases, including Oracle, Snowflakes and SQL Server.
• Hands-on experience with messaging and event-driven systems such as Kafka and mQueue.

Architecture & Engineering Practices

• Proven experience applying design patterns in microservices-based architectures.
• Experience designing and building high-throughput, highly concurrent microservices leveraging multi-core and multi-node architecture, multithreading, and event-driven processing.
• Strong understanding of the full SDLC, including CI/CD pipelines, version control, and code quality tools (e.g., Git, Sonar).

Cloud & Emerging Technologies

• Experience with cloud platforms, containerization, and microservices architectures.
• Exposure to and experience integrating Generative AI capabilities into enterprise solutions.