Server-Side Java developer

No Relocation candidates Job Title: Server Side Java / high performance middleware Location: New York - 3x/week onsite Hybrid 3 Days a Week Onsite Potential to Convert Description: The Polaris program aims to provide holistic architectural strategy for the post trade and realtime risk/monitoring plant, as well as standardize the integration between the critical low-latency trading path and post execution plant. It represents the north-star Front-to-Back architecture optimizing for scalability, resiliency, recoverability, manageability, simplicity, performance, time-2-market, and cost. The team implements, manages and operates modern platform as a service for High Availability and Resiliency, modern Observability, Configuration, Orchestration, Authentication, and Logging. We are seeking a hands-on server-side Java developer with track-record of building large scale distributed systems. We provide the great opportunities to solve problems like : * Low-latency distributed plants for large volume of real-time trading data * Elastic capacity for large/bursting volume of data * Renovated tooling to manage cloud based resources and boost the time to market for new features By utilizing cutting-edge new technologies like Kubernetes, Kafka, RocksDB, MongoDB, Memsql, Prometheus, Tempo and Snowflake. The team encourages open communication, new technologies and thinking out of box. Primary Responsibilities: * Design and implement high-performance messaging middleware/framework * Design and implement resiliency in applications using the framework and platform * Improve the SDLC, testing, configuration and Dev experience with shift-left approach Qualifications: * 5 or more years of work experience with Java and distributed systems * Strong hands-on core Java programming skills * Hands-on knowledge in distributed system (for example, messaging middleware, databases and networking) * Good communication skill and leadership in development * Hands-on knowledge in Python is a big plus * Knowledge in Kubernetes/DevOps/Cloud computing/Stream processing is a plus