Senior Java Developer

<p><u><b><span>Who We Are – MassMutual Romania</span></b></u></p><p></p><p><span>MassMutual Romania is a technology partner of MassMutual, a leading financial services company in the U.S., with a more than 170-year legacy. Established in 2020, the Romanian company is building an in-house team passionate about technology and innovation. We have expertise in software development, data science, and a wide range of technologies. With offices in Bucharest and Cluj, and team members across the country, MassMutual Romania develops technological solutions that help MassMutual deepen its digital capabilities and accelerate its growth in a digital-first world.</span></p><p></p><p><u><b>Job Description</b></u></p><p>The <b>Java Developer</b> will be part of a team that implements and manages data integration services across MassMutual Organization, delivering value to multiple stakeholders such as internal operations as well as external customers? We create streaming services that are the core to the functioning of several systems in the company.</p><p>This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated software engineer with a passion to learn new technologies &amp; to become an expert in event driven architecture leveraging Kafka. It will provide visibility to how multiple systems operate around MassMutual. As we grow and scale our organization to deliver more services, we need to manage our technical debt and improve uptime of our current business event applications.</p><p></p><p>We are a team of developers that work on projects requiring business events, across our enterprise, to flow centrally to one location to collect, manage and distribute transaction history and business data. A single event, such as payment, can be published by the system of record and be subscribed to by various consuming applications. The team supports source to target mapping, event creation and management as well as downstream application integrations.</p><p>The ideal candidate needs to have a background in Java, XML, JSON, Web Services, API integrations, and UDB databases. Familiarity with Financial Service / Life Insurance concepts, event management, data streaming and cloud concepts and AWS Lambda functions. Aurora/RDS and MySQL knowledge is a plus.</p><p>The <b>Java Developer</b> will work from our Cluj or Bucharest office while collaborating with the Global MassMutual teams and provide support. The person who will join this role will report to a local IT Delivery Manager.</p><p></p><p><b>Responsibilities:</b></p><ul><li>In addition to development tasks, promote collaboration and cross team <span>design/testing/implementation</span> coordination as it relates to team deliverables</li><li>Work independently on low to mid-complexity projects and with guidance on complex projects</li><li>Look for and promote ways to improve operations</li><li>Coordinate code and data migration tasks based on project schedules, which may be required outside normal business hours</li><li>Operate independently on <span>multiple/simultaneous</span> project tasks:<ul><li>Non-functional requirements for application specific components</li><li>Responsible for driving designs to ensure they align with architectural roadmap and can be adhered to within project schedule and budget</li><li>Participate in Peer Reviews of designs and code</li><li>Design of effective and easily supported integrations that satisfy business need while adhering to standard patterns; identifies</li><li><span>requirement/design/coding/testing</span> gaps, foresees potential problems and</li><li>dependencies between system integration designs/hand-offs</li></ul></li><li>Participate in on-call rotation for production support activities and ensure related documentation is kept current</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Requirements:</b></p><ul><li>Seasoned individual, 5-7 years development experience, capable of handling broad scope projects that have short to medium-term focus.</li><li>Experience or working knowledge of:<ul><li>Web Services / API’s</li><li>Java</li><li>AWS (Lambda, SQS, S3, RDS, EKS)</li><li>XML / XSD, JSON</li><li>Kafka - nice to have</li><li>SQL / Relational DB technologies</li><li>Mongo DB</li><li>GitHub / Jenkins</li><li>Jira / Confluence</li><li>Documenting technical workflows</li></ul></li><li>Experience in Financial Services/Insurance industry is a plus</li><li>Publish-subscribe framework knowledge would also be a plus</li></ul><p></p><p>Who We Are – MassMutual Romania</p><p>MassMutual Romania is a technology partner of MassMutual, a leading financial services company in the U.S., with a more than 170-year legacy. Established in 2020, the Romanian company is building an in-house team passionate about technology and innovation. We have expertise in software development, data science, and a wide range of technologies. With offices in Bucharest and Cluj, and team members across the country, MassMutual Romania develops technological solutions that help MassMutual deepen its digital capa