Java Backend Engineer, Aladdin Engineering - Vice President

Your Responsibilities

• To always be inquisitive, enthusiastic and open to quickly learning the business and our systems.
• Lead individual pieces of work from inception to completion, coordinating with other developers, and driving initiatives forward independently.
• As a senior developer you will be providing mentorship, guidance, and support to help other developers in the team grow and develop their skills and careers.
• Collaborate directly with your team and more widely across Private Markets and the wider Aladdin organization to build and deliver market leading software at pace.
• Deliver high efficiency, high availability, concurrent and fault tolerant software systems.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other partners to understand requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design, develop, and implement secure, scalable, and reliable micro-services to deliver applications built on Java technologies.
• Optimize API performance and reliability through continuous testing, debugging, and refinement.
• Implement standard methodologies for API documentation, versioning, and maintenance.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to developers, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the team.

Ideally, you should have

• Bachelor s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of professional experience in Java development, with a focus on building client-facing APIs
• An interest in finance and technology, backed by real-work experience, ideally in an API-First setting.
• Strong communication , presentation (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills, with direct experience of managing a diverse team of people.
• Proficiency in Java programming language (17+ an advantage) and related frameworks (e.g., Spring Boot, Hibernate ).
• A real-world practitioner of OO development, coupled with experience applying standard Design Patterns to your software design.
• Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable micro-services using API-First principles using at least one of REST/ gRPC .
• Motivated to work in a highly professional environment where best-practices and attention to detail are highly valued, and security and stability are built into everything you do.
• A desire to work with your colleagues to build the best software you can, move quickly and demonstrate excellence.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design principles and best practices.
• Experience with API authentication and authorization mechanisms (e.g., OAuth, JWT).
• Demonstrable experience building modern software using engineering tools such as git, maven, unit testing and integration testing tools, mocking frameworks.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes and cloud services in an enterprise environment is beneficial.
• Experience in message brokers such as Kafka is a plus.
• Experience with API gateway technologies (e.g., Apigee, Kong) is beneficial.
• Friendly, positive, and can-do attitude.