Senior Software Engineer (Java, Big Data) - Toa Payoh

Senior Software Engineer (Java, Big Data)

• Lead technical study into a proposed solution, while involving expertise from infrastructure big data expert, business analyst requirement
• Document proposed design and develop the solution
• Implicitly ensure all CI-CD artefacts are part of the solution
• Perform code review while fostering knowledge and coaching best practices to team members
• Interact and provide reporting to project managers
• Monitor technical risk and escalate appropriately to management
• Research, design, and develop software.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with other engineers to integrate hardware and/or software systems
• The position requires autonomy and reliability in performing duties with initiatives and leadership when it comes to all non-functional deliverables such as testing tools, mocking objects, production monitoring concerns, quality control including performance and load testing.

• At least Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Programming & Systems Analysis, Science (Computer Studies) or related fields.
• At least 8 years in Software development
• At least 5 years in Java/J2EE development
• Hands on Data ingest and data processing technology like Spark streaming and Spark
• Hands on Messaging systems like Kafka, Flume or ActiveMQ, MQSeries or RabitMQ
• Hands on knowledge on Hadoop (preferably Hortonworks distribution) - HDFS, HBase, Hive, ORC/Parquet.
• Build tool - Maven/sbt/ant, UML, Restful web services, Jenkins/Team City, Source management – SVN/GIT, TDD using Junit, Jira/QC.
• Solution design using proven patterns, awareness of anti-patterns, performance tuning, especially in streaming
• Knowledge of tools like Phoenix, ElasticSearch, Sqoop, StreamSets are good to have.
• Basic understanding of finance and investment banking