Java Developer, Application Platform

Octus

full-time

Posted on: 9/5/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $110,000 - $150,000 per year

Mid-LevelSenior

AngularAWSGraphQLHibernateJavaJenkinsJUnitKafkaMockitoNoSQLPythonReactSpringSpring BootSpringBoot

About the role

Report to Richard Christy as part of the Application Platform team to architect, design, and develop the next-generation Sky Road platform architecture
Improve scalability, reliability and performance of the Sky Road platform to support more clients, features, and data volumes
Enhance architecture to provide infrastructure for real-time event processing, integrating real-time external interfaces, and data warehousing
Assist in timely resolution of incidents and support day-to-day production operations
Write automated JUnit and regression tests
Help improve and maintain internal documentation
Work on trade processing, portfolio management, portfolio optimization, compliance, and credit management functions for alternative asset managers

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
Java experience, at least 5 years
Experience with Spring Boot framework, Spring Security framework, JPA at least 5 years
Experience with Relational/NoSQL Databases, at least 5 years
Experience with Java Messaging Service (SQS, Kafka or similar)
Experience with Hazlecast, Google Guava, or equivalent Java Cache technologies
Experience with using AWS services to build application frameworks (AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, AWS Load Balancers, AWS database technologies)
Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Git, Jenkins, Java IDEs
Experience with any of the following technologies: Hibernate, Snowflake, GraphQL, Python, JSON, HTML
Experience with server-side API frameworks such as REST and/or WebSockets called by client-side frameworks (Angular or React)
Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and test framework such as Junit/Mockito
Committed to maintaining a clean, readable, and consistent codebase and participating in GIT pull-requests/code reviews
Familiarity building Financial Software Applications, specifically trade/position keeping systems