Specialist Software Engineer - Java

The candidate will mainly work with development team cross region (mainly China , HK and India) for our transaction banking and cash management related applications.
-    Act as a key developer within a multi locations IT team
-    Able to work with the team towards excellent coding and architecture practices
-    Able to challenge organization and how we work to continuously improve team and its efficiency
-    Fully autonomous for delivering value end to end (understanding the business needs, developments, tests, operations, support)
-    Develop working code using software craftsmanship best practices such as domain driven development, continuous integration and deployment, legacy refactoring 
-    Participate to testing, deployment and production activities of the team to ensure production stability
-    Create or improve micro services exposing restful APIs within the information systems, deploy them to production
-    Challenge requirements and advise on good solutions
-    Support what we build (and sometimes what others have built)
-    Support our platform and users on their daily requests and ensure on-duty jobs whenever requested
-    Collaborate with other team members regardless of location (India, Hong Kong, China), and regardless of whether they are internal or external to Societe Generale (vendor consultant).
-    Communicate and report to business and IT peers and senior stakeholders
-    Some microservices in Java to provide additional services or support processes not supported by the main software. If those microservices are exposing APIs, they will likely be coded using Spring Boot

The candidate will mainly work with development team cross region (mainly China , HK and India) for our transaction banking and cash management related applications.
-    Act as a key developer within a multi locations IT team
-    Able to work with the team towards excellent coding and architecture practices
-    Able to challenge organization and how we work to continuously improve team and its efficiency
-    Fully autonomous for delivering value end to end (understanding the business needs, developments, tests, operations, support)
-    Develop working code using software craftsmanship best practices such as domain driven development, continuous integration and deployment, legacy refactoring 
-    Participate to testing, deployment and production activities of the team to ensure production stability
-    Create or improve micro services exposing restful APIs within the information systems, deploy them to production
-    Challenge requirements and advise on good solutions
-    Support what we build (and sometimes what others have built)
-    Support our platform and users on their daily requests and ensure on-duty jobs whenever requested
-    Collaborate with other team members regardless of location (India, Hong Kong, China), and regardless of whether they are internal or external to Societe Generale (vendor consultant).
-    Communicate and report to business and IT peers and senior stakeholders
-    Some microservices in Java to provide additional services or support processes not supported by the main software. If those microservices are exposing APIs, they will likely be coded using Spring Boot

Technical Skills 
•    Practical experience with Docker
•    Knowledge in Linux / Unix
•    Full mastery of git
•    Postgresql, Apache ActiveMQ, ELK monitoring is a plus
•    Experience in payment and cash management is a plus
•    +5 years of experience in modern Java development + at least one other backend language
•    Solid OOP and Design Pattern knowledge.
•    Can dig into unusual issues to fix them
•    Are not afraid to speak out to challenge and improve things
•    Welcome and embrace changes and enjoys delivering working solutions to the business
•    Prefer direct communication
•    Keeps things simple and clear to understand

“We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status”.

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