About Our Client

Our client is a leading global provider of fund administration, corporate, and financial services to the alternative investment industry. They operate across 36+ countries and service more than $1.8 trillion in assets under administration. They are recognised as one of the premier providers in their sector, known for innovation, operational excellence, and a strong culture of performance.

About the Role

You will be working in a cross-functional team, using agile methodologies to build on-prem and cloud native applications for the financial services industry. We are looking for true team players who can work beyond their specialty to help the team deliver. Every team member is responsible for the quality of the product and should be willing to work on any tasks needed, be it front-end, back-end, test automation, deployment automation, and more. The successful candidate will use their experience and talent to help drive the delivery of the system, introduce new technologies, and guide the evolution of our applications.

Job Duties

• Participate and contribute to all team activities such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Execution, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
• Deliver modules (front-end and back-end) to provide new features for the Document Services Team.
• Develop front and back-end code using React, Java, Kotlin, Spring, NodeJS, and Hibernate.
• Be comfortable using relational databases and have PL/SQL basics.
• Demonstrate core understanding of AWS – specifically CloudFormation, CloudWatch, networking, S3, Lambdas, running containers on ECS, and policies/roles.
• Perform code reviews and ensure the quality of the team’s work.
• Design and implement unit, integration, systems, performance, and load testing.
• Manage AWS resources in a safe and cost-effective manner.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Experience working on Agile teams.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, specifically building and architecting web applications and backend services.
• 5+ years of experience with Java, Kotlin, Spring, Hibernate, and NodeJS.
• 5+ years of experience with React and Redux.
• 3+ years of experience working and deploying services to AWS.
• Comfortable with Python.
• Experience with Docker.
• Experience with AWS services such as S3, ECS, Fargate, API Gateway, IAM, and CloudFormation.
• Experience with relational databases (ideally PostgreSQL).
• Experience with NoSQL databases (ideally Elasticsearch) would be an asset.
• Working knowledge of Kotlin is a plus.
• Solid understanding and demonstrated proficiency with core software development processes – debugging, code tuning, code management and branching, coding styles, and refactoring.
• Self-motivated and driven, with strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

6-month contract.

Salary to be discussed.