JAVA developers (mid-senior level)

Job Overview:

(company loves SUPERSTARS)

Tremendous opportunity to join one of the premier organizations in the Financial Services arena.  If growth and stability are of interest (they’ve never had a layoff or downsizing in the almost 50 years of existence), this is the role for you!

This is a hybrid position located in Connecticut.

The  Company will pay for relocation and sponsor H1B visas. Consultants/ contractors need not apply.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related degree.
• 5+ years of Java experience or similar object-oriented language experience.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented concepts, n-tier applications
• Knowledge of any relational database concepts (Oracle is a plus).
• Hands-on experience with server-side programming, ideally with Java/JEE or C++, message-oriented systems, RESTful web services, and microservices.
• Desire to challenge the status quo, create simple, elegant solutions to complex problems, and follow solutions from development through production release, acceptance testing, and support.
• Experience with configuration and deployment on application servers, ideally JBoss.
  Knowledge of financial instruments is a plus but is not required.
• Otherwise, you have a desire to learn about and understand financial instruments and concepts.

Personal Qualities:

• Detail-oriented self-starter who is comfortable working both independently and collaborating with your team.
• Passionate about writing clean, well-tested, and maintainable code.
• You should have a high level of comfort in an environment of continuous integration and deployment.
• Optimizing, improving, and supporting existing algorithms and systems to reach the goal of highly automated robust systems with full test coverage requiring minimal operational oversight.
• Creating independent automated risk controls and checks to ensure that systems are performing as expected and catching potential errors as soon as possible.
• Developing message-oriented systems, batch processing applications, and web application-based management consoles.
• Continuous learner and will use and/or learn the right language and technology to solve a problem.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States legally.