Senior Java Developer
Senior Java Developer
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$ 115 - 125
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Job Description
We are
At Synechron we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechrons progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence Consulting Digital Cloud & DevOps Data and Software Engineering servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models Digital Underwriting mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20 years our company has been honored with multiple employer awards recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about Synechron has a global workforce of 14500 and has 58 offices in 21 countries within key global markets.
Our challenge
We are building Polaris a next-generation front-to-back platform for post-trade processing real-time risk monitoring and cloud-native orchestration. We are seeking a hands-on high-impact Java developer with a proven track record in designing and operating large-scale distributed systems. Candidate will contribute to the architecture implementation and operations of a low-latency high-throughput trading data path ensuring scalability resiliency recoverability observability and developer productivity.
Additional Information*
The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other accordance with law the base salary for this role if filled within Alpharetta GA is$115k - $125k/year & benefits (see below).
The Role
Responsibilities:
- Design implement and maintain high-performance low-latency messaging and processing components (Java-based) for real-time trading data.
- Develop and operate resilient microservices and streaming pipelines using Kafka and related technologies.
- Build and optimize storage and access patterns with modern databases (e.g. RocksDB MongoDB MemSQL/SingleStore) for real-time analytics.
- Lead efforts to improve SDLC testing (shift-left) configuration and developer experience (CI/CD automation tooling).
- Architect and implement observability frameworks: metrics tracing (Tempo/Jaeger) logging and alerting for highly available systems.
- Collaborate with Platform/Cloud-native teams to design Kubernetes-based deployments scalability and disaster recovery strategies.
- Implement backpressure idempotency retries with exponential backoff and jitter circuit breakers and fault-tolerant patterns.
- Provide technical leadership mentorship and code reviews; communicate effectively with stakeholders across teams.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response driving root-cause analysis and post-mortems.
Requirements:
- 8 years of professional software development with a strong emphasis on Java and distributed systems.
- Deep hands-on experience building large-scale low-latency high-throughput systems.
- Expertise with messaging and streaming technologies especially Kafka (producers/consumers transactions exactly-once processing).
- Proficiency with data stores used in real-time contexts (RocksDB MongoDB MemSQL/SingleStore) and time-series considerations.
- Solid understanding of concurrency memory models locking vs. lock-free approaches and performance tuning in Java.
- Experience designing and operating in Kubernetes-based environments; familiarity with cloud-native patterns DevOps and observability tooling.
- Strong problem-solving debugging and performance profiling skills.
- Excellent communication collaboration and leadership capabilities.
- Bonus: Python scripting experience; knowledge of Prometheus/Grafana Tempo/Jaeger and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
Preferred but not required:
- Experience with front-to-back architectural patterns in trading or financial services.
- Knowledge of or experience with RocksDB distributed caches and columnar stores.
- Familiarity with time-series data modeling and windowed computations.
- Exposure to risk monitoring market data feeds and post-trade workflows.
We offer:
- A highly competitive compensation and benefits package.
- A multinational organization with 58 offices in 21 countries and the possibility to work abroad.
- 10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays).
- Maternity & paternity leave plans.
- A comprehensive insurance plan including medical dental vision life insurance and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region).
- Retirement savings plans.
- A higher education certification policy.
- Commuter benefits (varies by region).
- Extensive training opportunities focused on skills substantive knowledge and personal development.
- On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.
- Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.
- Cutting edge projects at the worlds leading tier-one banks financial institutions and insurance firms.
- A flat and approachable organization.
- A truly diverse fun-loving and global work culture.
SYNECHRONS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds race ethnicities religion age marital status gender sexual orientations or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements mentoring internal mobility learning and development programs and more.
All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to the applicants gender gender identity sexual orientation race ethnicity disabled or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
