Senior Java Software Engineer

MUST: 4+ years as a backend developer, specifically with java – EXPERT LEVEL HARD CORE JAVA DEVELOPMENT, should be doing java all day every day Great communication Experience building systems that handle high throughput and low latency in production environments (10k+ msgs/sec, low-millisecond latencies). Strong Java proficiency, including solid understanding of concurrency, memory management, JVM behavior, and performance optimization. Has been a senior/lead or principal developer (eventually will mentor backend devs) and comfortable with being the main backend developer currently on the team (ability to understand architecture while being a strong developer) Aspirations to grow into a director role Expert in Java development (backend) Understands multi-threading Strong experience with Unit testing with J-unit Either comes from a small team within a large company, or comes from a small start up Experience in the cloud with one of these cloud enviroments: AWS, Azure, or GCP Experience with at least one type of SQL relational database Bachelor's in Comp Sci PLUS: FIX Protocal experience Experience with derivative contracts (futures, options) and financial markets Strong experience developing Rest API’s Must understand how Kubernetes or containerized applications work (microservices) Extensive experience in relational databases (PostgreSQL) Expert with spring boot development Fintech Websocket experience , build out api’s for the front end of the platform Experience with rabbit mq, or other messaging platforms Start ups Used Postman for testing Ability to write PostgreSQL queries manually