Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc., (SGA), is searching for a Sr. Java / C / C++ / GO Developer for a CONTRACT assignment with one of our premier Financial Services clients in Menlo Park, CA .
We are seeking an experienced backend engineer to join our Middle Office Core Platform Organization. This team owns systems, services and initiatives to provide financial products to our customers across digital channels. This organization is responsible for building financial products, platform capabilities and components that are used by millions of customers daily. As a senior backend engineer, you will be working in Middle Office Core Platform Organization to drive product development and modernization initiatives. You are a builder and have a deep understanding of tools and technologies to build products that deliver business outcomes and obsess about customer. You will be responsible for designing and programming a small module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features.
Responsibilities :
- Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding
- Work closely with your peers and keep engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team
- Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal
- Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
- Understand whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module
- Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
- Possess advanced domain knowledge and show great customer focus. Expert in processes / methodologies and Skilled in build, release & deployment processes
- Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
- Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
Required Skills :
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in -STEM- Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)A minimum of years of relevant professional experience or years with master's or years with PhDStrong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and coding principlesHands-on experience in microservices architecture and development, Databases such as Oracle MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL etc. years or more experience in C / C++ / Java and GoExperience in building scalable and highly available distributed systemsExperience in assessing application performance and optimizing / improving it through design and best coding practicesBe an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and can implement them using language of choiceExperience in agile software developmentPreferred Skills :
Preferred experience in Service Mesh, Containers and Kubernetes technologiesPreferred hands-on experience in building cloud-based software leveraging cloud and open source technology and frameworksPreferred understanding and experience in one of the public clouds (AWS, Azure) native servicesLI-SY