Software Engineer - Java Streaming Technologies - Dublin

Our client based in Ireland is looking for a Software Engineer - Java Streaming Technologies to join them for a long term contract (possible extension).

• Start: ASAP
• Location: Dublin, must be on-site 5 days a week
• Full time
• Industry: Banking
• Freelance
• Language: English
• Duration: until end of year (plus extension)
• Rate: negotiable, please share your best (outside IR35)

Role Description

This role is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the role include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. This role ensures solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. These individuals possess strong proficiency in development and testing practices common to the industry and have extensive experience of using design and architectural patterns.

Primary Level of Engagement: Works as a team member under supervision from a more senior domain expert.

Primary Interactions:

• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Development Team
• Feature Lead
• Architect
• Dev Community of Practice

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to story refinement/defining requirements.
• Participate and guide team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery life cycle.
• Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Utilise multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements.
• Assist team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work.
• Design/develop/modify architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained.

The Team - CST App Dev provides shared software development, application management and control governance to increase efficiency and effectiveness of controls for GIS Cyber Security Defense (CSD) and others, the GIS Agile development proponent.

The team is distributed across the US, EMEA and APAC. We collaborate often and place communication high on our priority list. The team has global presence, and the role will require regular interactions with the US and APAC team members.

Core skills - Required and Preferred

Required Skills:

• Strong development skills in Java; Java 17+.
• Strong working knowledge of Spring Boot.
• Good programming skills including understanding of algorithms, data structures, design patterns and multi-threading.
• Experience with large scale, globally distributed systems with an emphasis on high availability.
• Experience with Agile development practices,
• Experience in 3rd line production support. Great team player, with an ability to mentor other team members to enable them to become more established in their role. A willingness to get involved at times even when not in the area of expertise.
• Experience of leveraging at-least one NoSQL DB.
• Streaming technologies - Apache Spark, Kafka Streaming, Apache Flink
• Experience of working with Kafka

Desirable Skills:

• Distributing Caching
• Micro services, Containerization/Kubernetes.
• Functional programming
• Splunk, Prometheus, Dynatrace
• Exposure of working with teams leveraging AI/ML,GenAI
• Exposure to RAG and prompt engineering

If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, please apply with your latest CV, rate and availability, for immediate consideration.

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