About the Role:

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The Role: Lead Java Engineer.

The Team: Core Services is a global technology team to foster innovation, accelerate focuses on building modern cloud native frameworks and platforms while offering employees the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. We are building a cloud native microservices framework that is a ground up on-cloud and let engineering teams create production ready cloud native microservices faster.

The Impact: Our team is responsible for the development of framework and platforms that powers the cloud native microservice development of mission-critical applications and platform services at S&P Ratings.  We aim to simplify the complex and cumbersome enterprise Java application development process by offering a framework that offers solutions for Resilience, Observability, Secrets Stores, Deployments and many more. A key success measure is to decrease the number of decisions that a developer is required to make without necessarily losing flexibility and don't repeat yourself (DRY) principles and reducing overall application development cost by promoting reuse. 

What’s In It For You:

• Hybrid work schedule (work onsite 2x/week)
• Unparalleled opportunity and responsibility make a highly visible global impact.
• The chance to join a large community of like-minded technologists in a flat organization with a culture that promotes collaboration, “can do” mindsets and teamwork.
• Opportunity to work on unprecedented greenfield projects that impact S&P Ratings and the financial services industry broadly.

Responsibilities:

• Work as a Technical Lead to develop libraries, frameworks and platforms that handle our core functionality and cross cutting microservices needs.
• Designing/Building new features, maintaining high code quality via tests/code reviews/metrics, and keeping a focus on continuous improvement on all parts of the development process.
• Research new tools and cloud native technologies from the Java community, CNCF, Spring, Apache, and others.
• Build proof of concept and come up with recommendations to integrate into our product.
• Make code quality decisions, and ship solutions to provide value to our business.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, our business, and engineers to define product vision and objectives.

What We’re Looking For:

• MS/BS in Computer Science Engineering or related disciplines.
• Full Stack Engineer with solid understanding and experience of core Java, Spring Boot, React JS, Distributed and Cloud Native microservices development.
• Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Typescript and related front-end technologies.
• Experience with front-end frameworks and libraries such as React, Redux, Webpack etc.
• Strong understanding of responsive design and mobile-first development.
• Solid understanding and experience of core Java, Spring Boot, Reactive Fundamentals, Distributed and Cloud Native microservices development.
• Experience with distributed messaging, Docker/Kubernetes, Cloud Computing platforms, DevOps tools.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience speaking to technical and business audiences.
• Ability to understand and effectively debug both new and existing solutions.
• Strong technical ability, willingness to learn and evolve your skills with advances in technology.
• Work/lead in a fast-paced environment with diverse global teams.
• Experience working with search platforms such as Elastic search, Solar, Open Search.
• Experience working with messaging solutions such as Kafka, JMS etc.
• Experience working with Cloud Services on platforms such as AWS,  Azure etc.
• Experience working with Kubernetes (Deployment, Pods , HPA, Helm charts etc.).
• Experience with development of API and API management.
• Experience working with Streaming platform such as Apache flume, Flink is a plus.
• Experience working with Complex event processing tech such as Esper , Wso2, flink is a plus.
• Experience working with AIML frameworks and libraries such as keras, pytorch, spacy, nltk etc. is a plus.
• Experience working with Model hubs such as hugging face, tensorhub etc. is a plus.

Flexible Working

We pride ourselves on our agility and diversity, and we welcome requests to work flexibly. For most roles, flexible hours and/or an element of remote working are usually possible. Please talk to us at interview about the type of arrangement that is best for you. We will always try to be adaptable wherever we can. 

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