Java Software Engineer - Java 11+, SpringBoot, Kafka, Akka, MongoDB, Low Latency

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  • London
  • £100,000-110,000 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 month ago
  • Location: London, Greater London, England
  • Salary: £100k - 110k per year + None
  • Category
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  • Contract type Permanent
  • Consultant: Tom Lynch
Java Software Engineer - Java 11+, Spring, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, Akka, MongoDB, Docker/Kubernetes, Real-time, TDD/BDD, PaymentsA Java Engineer with a background in finance/payments and experience working on distributed real-time systems is sought after by a global Fintech based in South West London. This organisation specialises in providing high performance technology solutions to global financial institutions (including several Investment Banks), primarily to augment their payments capabilities.As a Senior Engineer, you will join the core engineering team working on the development of their real-time payments processing platform, using a primary tech stack of Java 17, Spring Boot and Akka. You will contribute from both a design and coding perspective, taking ownership of delivering new components and features ensuring high availability, resiliency and scalability.As a Fintech, they are highly Agile, operating in multi-functional delivery squads manging projects from inception through to delivery/go-live and with a heavy focus on Pair Programming and TDD, so are looking for people from similar environments.To be successful, you will demonstrate:
  • A strong background in hands-on Java engineering, currently working with Java 11+
  • Indepth knowledge of microservices architecture and usage of Spring/Spring Boot
  • Experience developing distributed, real-time applications with Kafka and the JMS (or related MQ technologies e.g. RabbitMQ, ACtiveMQ etc.) with an appreciation of multithreading, concurrency etc.
  • Understanding of Reactive Programming Techniques with Akka, Spring Webflux, RxJava
  • Practical experience of MongoDB and AWS
  • Industry experience within Financial Services, preferably within the Payments arena.
If you are passionate about building real-time software and keen to join a growing fintech, please do apply!

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