Senior Engineer, Software Development

About us

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the development team, to implement the next generation of features for the application as well as support existing platform. The role offers extensive business and technical challenges in a highly dynamic and collaborative work environment and an opportunity to mentor junior team members.

Corporate Action platform uses various complex business rules to produce high quality data and processed in high volume with strict SLAs for delivery of data. Application uses core technologies like Java, Oracle, ActiveMQ, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch, RestFul APIs.

S&P Global helps todays advanced organizations take advantage of best-in-class technology and industry best practices to create an accurate single source of the truth, with information about customers and vendors which is accurate and up to date. With S&P Global, you can exchange information in a secure environment, reducing the risk of sending sensitive information via unsecured email. Our solutions provide you with a connected network where you can engage with the organizations you work with more quickly and efficiently. We enable you to reduce costs with streamlined processes and improved technologies

Our world-class technology and processes were built in conjunction with industry standards bodies, technology experts, and financial institutions to create the best-in-class solution for efficiently addressing regulatory compliance requirements and managing you tax environment.

What are we looking for :

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join the development team, to implement the next generation of features for the application as well as support existing platform. The role offers extensive business and technical challenges in a highly dynamic and collaborative work environment and an opportunity to mentor junior team members.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and implement highly transactional and scalable applications
• All aspects of database development (modelling, stored procedures, performance tuning)
• Should be able to understand non-functional requirements like performance, scalability, reliability aspect of the application
• Collaborate and share technical and business knowledge to members of the development team and wider organisation.
• Be able to mentor dev team and coach them for effective deliveries.
• Analyse existing designs and interfaces and creating design extensions or enhancements
• Apply strong technical skills and good business knowledge together with investigative techniques and problem-solving skills to identify and resolve issues in a timely and efficient manner
• Contribute to team code-review sessions to evaluate functional and non-functional impact of code changes
• We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about technology and has a passion for high quality of deliverables while managing the team.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
• 10+ years experience in building applications using Java & Spring platform with expert level java coding experience
• Significant hands-on experience on designing scalable robust applications
• Has experience mentoring, leading a team
• Ability to work in team-oriented environment, and also have the ability to work independently
• Strong experience in relational Databases like Oracle, designing normalized or de-normalized database, writing SQL queries & stored procedures and analyzing & fixing performance issues.
• Experience in profiling an application to troubleshoot issues, monitoring system performance (CPU, memory, processes, threads, network etc.) is a plus
• Experience in Spring Integration framework, RESTful services, Spring Batch, Spring REST, Spring framework, Spring Boot,
• Proficient in OOPS, Design Patterns and Data Structures.
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development and ability to write units tests leveraging frameworks such as JUnit, Mockito, JMock etc. for extensive unit-testing
• Experience with build & release tools like Maven and Continuous Integration like Jenkins
• Proficient in Agile development methodology

Management Requirements:

• Strong inter-personal skills required with ability to multitask and prioritize work

Commercial awareness:

• Basic understanding of Financial Markets desirable.