Backend Engineer - Middle Office Platform - SGA Inc.
Alpharetta, GA
About the Job
Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc. (SGA) is searching for a Backend Engineer - Middle Office Platform for a contract assignment with one of our premier financial services clients in Alpharetta, GA.
Position Description:
We are seeking an experience backend engineer to join our Middle Office Core Platform Organization. This team owns systems, services and initiatives to provide financial products to our customers across digital channels. This organization is responsible for building financial products, platform capabilities and components that are used by millions of customers daily.
As a backend engineer, you will be working in Middle Office Core Platform Organization to drive product development and modernization initiatives. You are a builder and have deep understanding of tools and technologies to build products that delivers business outcomes and obsess about customer. You will be responsible for designing and programming a small module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features.
Responsibilities:
SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at https://sgainc.com/.
SGA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of Race, Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Religion, National Origin, Disability, Veteran Status, Age, Marital Status, Pregnancy, Genetic Information, or Other Legally Protected Status. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, and our services, programs, and activities. Please visit our company EEO page to request an accommodation or assistance regarding our policy.
Position Description:
We are seeking an experience backend engineer to join our Middle Office Core Platform Organization. This team owns systems, services and initiatives to provide financial products to our customers across digital channels. This organization is responsible for building financial products, platform capabilities and components that are used by millions of customers daily.
As a backend engineer, you will be working in Middle Office Core Platform Organization to drive product development and modernization initiatives. You are a builder and have deep understanding of tools and technologies to build products that delivers business outcomes and obsess about customer. You will be responsible for designing and programming a small module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features.
Responsibilities:
- Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding
- Work closely with your peers and keep engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team
- Execute in a fast-paced delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal
- Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
- Understand whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module
- Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
- Possess advanced domain knowledge and show great customer focus. Expert in processes / methodologies and Skilled in build, release & deployment processes
- Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
- Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM " Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
- 7-15 years of relevant professional experience, or 5 years with master's, or 2 years with PhD
- Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and coding principles
- Hands-on experience in microservices architecture and development, Databases such as Oracle MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL etc.
- 7 - 15 years' experience in Java
- Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
- Experience in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices
- Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and can implement them using language of choice
- Preferred understanding and experience in one of the public clouds (AWS, Azure) native services
- Experience in agile software development
- Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
- Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective
- Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
- Proactively identifies and address customer issues in product
- Shares knowledge, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
- Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
- Open to take new responsibility, learn new technologies or systems to deliver business value
- Preferred experience in ServiceMesh, Containers and Kubernetes technologies
- Preferred hands-on experience in building cloud-based software leveraging cloud and open-source technology and frameworks
SGA is a technology and resource solutions provider driven to stand out. We are a women-owned business. Our mission: to solve big IT problems with a more personal, boutique approach. Each year, we match consultants like you to more than 1,000 engagements. When we say let's work better together, we mean it. You'll join a diverse team built on these core values: customer service, employee development, and quality and integrity in everything we do. Be yourself, love what you do and find your passion at work. Please find us at https://sgainc.com/.
SGA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of Race, Color, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Religion, National Origin, Disability, Veteran Status, Age, Marital Status, Pregnancy, Genetic Information, or Other Legally Protected Status. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, and our services, programs, and activities. Please visit our company EEO page to request an accommodation or assistance regarding our policy.
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