Senior Java Developer

Barclays•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Java Developer. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. Step into a role where your technical knowledge directly influences the digital transformation of investment banking services. You'll drive architectural strategies, advocate best practices, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions that set industry standards. Join us to accelerate your career with exposure to enterprise-scale systems, emerging technologies, and advancement opportunities in a culture that values innovation and technical excellence.

Requirements

Java with deep understanding of OOP, collections framework, exception handling, multithreading, and Java features
Spring Boot and dependency injection for building enterprise applications
Maven for dependency management
Git for collaborative development workflows
Distributed caching technologies such as Redis, Hazelcast, or Coherence to build scalable, low‑latency systems
SQL skills, stored procedures, transaction management, and ability to optimize queries and design schemas
JUnit, Mockito, integration testing, and debugging tools to ensure code quality and reliability

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kafka, MQ, message brokers, event-driven patterns, and asynchronous communication for building resilient distributed systems
Experience with Teamcity or Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions for automated testing and deployment pipelines
Skills in RESTful API design, GraphQL, and API versioning strategies
Containerisation knowledge/Docker and comfortable with Unix command line
Ability to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and familiarity with financial services

Responsibilities

Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools.
Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments.
Identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
Communicate complex information.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.