Principal Java Consultant, Budapest

Job description

Lab49 has an opportunity available for a Lead Java Engineer to lead work on complex and challenging projects to drive transformative change for our top- tier Financial Services clients. Operating in an Agile environment, the Java Engineer will have strong server-side experience to work on next- generation financial systems. ### Responsibilities - Build distributed systems that deal with actor-based concurrency, reactive programming, distributed in-memory data grids, messaging that goes beyond plain JMS as we fully expect to participate in shaping the future of financial technology stacks - Work on server side JVM-based projects - Hit the ground running with the typical Java or Scala JVM ecosystem stack (Spring and its subprojects, Guice, Guava, Maven, Hibernate, Jetty, etc.) - Retool continuously as the technology landscape changes every few years - Be able to pick up other technologies along the whole development stack, including front-end and other non-JVM ecosystems - Work with our clients in iterative, project-based engagements, where self-organizing and focused teams move quickly to build innovative solutions for the client - Have the desire to collaborate, and like sharing and learning from your colleagues - Be passionate about delivering quality code - Demonstrate experience writing commercial-grade software applications - Have a deep understanding of multithreading and real-time software architectures - Have an abiding interest in and competence for solving real-world business problems (with technology as an enabler) - Be determined to succeed despite obstacles and challenges, as well as a positive attitude favoring achievement of goals over open-ended investigation ### Required Skills and Experience - 10+ years of hands-on experience designing and building complex, software applications, commercial-grade applications in core, server-side Java, ideally Java 8+ - 5+ years of experience leading Agile teams - Willingness to take responsibility for the team’s actions and outcomes - Ability to proactively make informed decisions based on the project and technology understanding - Strive to share knowledge, guide the team members, and lead learning sessions - Flexibility to adapt to changes in project requirements, technology, and team composition - Experience building RESTful Web Services - Test-driven development, which includes Unit and End-to-End Testing - Experience with Agile software development (e.g. SCRUM or KANBAN) - Experience in a CI/CD environment - Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experience - Experience with, knowledge of, and strong demonstrated interest in, global financial markets and financial products.