Sr. Java Developer, District of Columbia

What you'll do:

Lead the development and testing of our systems and services

Participate in shaping the technical architecture of the product

Help translate product requirements into user stories and technical solutions

Deliver highly available and scalable services in a production environment

Mentor other engineers, support the technical culture, and help grow the team

Generate ideas for new initiatives and technologies

Communicate with project leads, product managers and other software developers

Support live services and be on call on a periodic basis

What you'll need:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

4+ years programming experience, ideally on a modern stack

Our core stack is Java/ Kotlin/ Spring / PostgreSQL/ React, and we run on Kubernetes in a service oriented architecture with over 100 services in production

2+ years Java, Kotlin or Scala programming experience

A proven understanding of relational databases and ORMs

Experience working on a SOA or microservice-based application.

Willingness to roll up your sleeves, collaborate with others and get stuff done

Solid sense of responsibility; driving a project from inception to completion

Affinity for solving problems and shipping impactful features, not polishing perfect code or architecture

Experience working in a collaborative coding environment, refining designs together, working through code reviews and managing pull requests

Nice to have:

Interest in personal finance

Experience managing your own investments or experience taking out loans

Experience scaling highly available, mission critical systems

Full-stack experience, either toward systems (kafka, docker, posix), databases (postgres), or front-end (javascript/typescript, react)

Prior experience in fintech or financial services