Senior Java Developer/Architect

Job Title: Senior Java Developer/Architect Location: Montreal, QC Duration: Long term  Responsibilities description: • Define architecture and design for a resilient, scalable, and observable system. • Perform hands-on development in an agile squad working with product owners, business analysts and other developers. • Implement automated testing, leveraging unit tests and integration tests to validate every feature. • Guide more junior developers helping them to adopt the best design, coding, and testing practices. • Drive the team to follow the best DevOps practices. • Focus on automation at every level of the SDLC. • Understand the requirements, help defining milestones and backlog based on business priorities, team capability and velocity. • Act as an end-to-end owner ensuring the system is developed, tested, deployed as planned and is performing as expected in production environments. • Contribute to team standards and improving processes. Skills required (essential): • Hands-on, with 7+ years' experience in building distributed systems applying agile practices. • Sound understanding of microservice architecture and design patterns, system resiliency, scalability, security, and observability. • Ability to design and build automated test harnesses for microservices. • Experience in designing and implementing messaging- and rest- based middleware and performing databases modelling. • Strong working knowledge of core Java and Spring frameworks - including spring-boot and testing. • Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools. • Strong oral and written communication skills. Skills desired (recommended): • Understanding of Cloud-based application development, preferably with Microsoft Azure Cloud. Familiarity with Kafka. • Experience Angular UI development framework. • Experience coordinating and mentoring a development team. • Prior experience in FinTech application development. • Experience with working in a global delivery team.