Front-End Developer ID- 10710

Client: OCC (Options Clearing Corporation)
Position: Front-End Developer (Risk Platform Team)
Location: Chicago, IL 60606
Duration: contract through the end of 2021, possible extension
 
Must Haves / Notes from Manger:
  • 8+ years of technical experience building data-centric solutions
  • Advance level of Java 8+ knowledge with experience in using Object oriented features and Design Patterns in real enterprise projects.
  • Spring boot experience required.
  • 2+ years of experience with any one of high speed distributed computing frameworks is required. Hadoop, Apache Spark, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink etc.
  • REST experience required.
  • Expert working knowledge of SQL.
  • Hands-on experience with any one distributed message brokers Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
  • Intermediate working knowledge of DevOps tools like Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD pipeline etc.
  • Experience developing and delivering technical solutions using public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google, etc.
  • Preferred solid experience building large scale fault tolerant, micro-services based streaming application on a cloud based environment
  • Hands-on experience writing unit and integration tests with testing frameworks like Junit, Citrus
  • Hands-on experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
  • Hands-on experience following Git workflows
  • Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics
  • Comprehensive debugging and troubleshooting skills.
  • BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required. Masters preferred.
 
Desired Skills:  
Day to Day Responsibilities:
  • Will work with business analysts, team leads and other developers in developing software for Renaissance Risk Platform.
  • Work on assigned tasks using agile software development methodology. Each task should follow established software development policy producing good design and better-quality software with near complete code coverage for unit & integration tests.
  • Collaborate with other team members & product owners to facilitate application development meeting all business requirements, problem solving and proper lifecycle support across testing and deployment environments.
  • Follow OCC established compliance and regulatory requirements standards while developing software. These includes documenting design, test cases and test proofs on Jira and satisfying security standards in developed code
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