Senior Software Engineer
Location: Galway (Hybrid)
Type: Contract
Our client is looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer with strong understanding of programming fundamentals, and software design. In this role, you will be responsible for the development of quality software components that are used by Portfolio Managers, and Analysts. In addition to building software, you will have an opportunity to help define and implement development practices, standards, and strategies across multiple teams.
Your Expertise & Skills:
• Minimum 8 years of design & development experience
• You are proficient in Java, Spring, SpringBoot, RESTful services
• Angular front-end experience
• Expertise with Test Automation Tools and Frameworks e.g. Karate, Cypress, Cucumber
• Exposure to messaging such as Kafka would be nice
• Kubernetes/EKS/AWS deployment and operations management exposure is a plus
• Financial domain knowledge an advantage with exposure to Equities, Fixed Income or Alternative Asset classes
• Having excellent analytical, communication, and organizational skills and the ability to run with multiple tasks at a given time.
What you'll deliver:
• Deliver high quality, timely, cost effective and maintainable software solutions in an agile environment to meet functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Actively contribute to test automation code and practices.
• Actively contribute to engineering practices such as code and design reviews and the definition of source control strategy, environment strategy, and build and deployment pipeline.
• Work with product owner, technical lead and architect as required to influence technical improvements to the platform.
• Develop a keen understanding of the business domain you are working on and actively participate in technology discussions with business partners and other external parties.
• Investigate creative practices and share them with your team-mates.