Senior Java Developer
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Global Relay is the leading provider of cloud-based archiving, information governance, surveillance, and eDiscovery solutions to the global finance sector. We help financial services firms preserve and supervise their communications data for regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and litigation readiness. We deliver our services to over 20,000 customers in 90 countries, including 22 of the top 25 global banks. Our market-leading archiving service supports email, instant messaging, text, market data chat, social media, enterprise social networking, voice, trade data, websites, and more. Recently, we also launched a compliant messaging platform specifically for the finance industry.
We’ve won major awards for our growth, management, and culture – including the Deloitte Fast 50 Leadership Award, Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures, and the Deloitte-sponsored Canada’s Best Managed Companies awards. Our Global Operations & Development Center is located in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In addition, we have offices in six other cities across the world, including major financial centers like New York, Chicago, and London.
Having established our dominance in the North American finance industry, we have been expanding our London operations to better serve our UK and EU customers. Our four-story EMEA headquarters on Cannon Street (near St. Paul’s Cathedral) features state-of-the-art amenities, a spectacular view of the city, and an Executive Briefing Center for customer forums and other events.
We provide fantastic opportunities to individuals passionate about business and technology. These opportunities include working alongside members of our leadership team. Receiving mentorship from seasoned technology and business professionals. And doing business with the world’s largest, most influential banks and enterprise organizations.
About the role:
The Senior Java Developer is a member of a small, highly focused team, responsible for building services for highly scalable and robust messaging, data acquisition and archiving systems, using leading edge technologies. This is an opportunity to work alongside some of the best Java developers in London and apply your craft in an environment that encourages creative thinking and autonomy.
We encourage our developers to think beyond a single component to build complete system solutions. Challenge yourself by learning new technologies, and apply your skills across our different projects and application domains. If you are committed to code that is clean, well-tested, well-reviewed, performant and secure then you’ll fit in around here.
Tech Stack:
- Micro-services Container Platforms (OpenShift, Kubernetes, CRC, Docker)
- NoSQL DBs (Cassandra, MongoDB, HBase, Zookeeper, ArangoDB)
- Serialization libraries (Thrift, Protocol Buffers)
- Large scale data processing (Hadoop, Kafka)
- Dependency injection frameworks (Guice, Spring)
- Text search engines (Lucene, ElasticSearch)
- Splunk/Elastic
- CI/CD Build tools: Maven, Git, Jenkins
- Frameworks: Vert.x, Spring Boot
- Real-time communication API’s (WebRTC, SIP, XMPP)
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and provide architectural guidance in deploying microservices as a part of an agile development team
- Migrate existing services to microservices, with the goal of reducing complexity at the design and architecture level
- Write unit and integration tests for your Java code
- Collaborate with testers in development of functional test cases
- Develop deployment systems for Java based systems
- Collaborate with product owners on user story generation and refinement
- Monitor and support the operation of production systems
- Participate in knowledge sharing activities with colleagues
- Pair programming and peer reviews
About You:
- Minimum 8 years of Java development experience in an Agile environment, building scalable, multi-threaded applications and services
- API development experience in service and resource-oriented architectures
- Fluency with Linux
Desirable Experience:
Experience with any of the following is an asset:
- Telecoms/Cisco/SIP development
- WebRTC development
- High data volume distributed systems
- 3rdgeneration messaging systems
- Backends for mobile messaging systems
- SIP or XMPP
- Soft real-time systems
- Experience doing performance tuning
- Big Data technologies, such as Hadoop, Kafka, and Cassandra, to build applications that contain petabytes of data and process millions of transactions per day
- Cloud computing, virtualization and containerization
- Continuous integration systems
- Deployment technology such as Ansible
- Parsing PDF, Word or other complex document formats
- OCR parsing technology
- Full text searching/indexing and tokenization
- Lucene