Technical Lead Java Developer

• Candidate will work on challenging and highly visible projects for Fixed Income / other areas driven by business needs
• Hands-on coding as an individual contributor along with Unit Tests and participating in dev testing throughout the SDLC (DEV, UAT)
• Participate in daily stand ups following Agile/scrum methodology, closing working with TPM and other dev team members
• Perform design and code review of on-going projects
• Follow coding and design standards at Mizuho, comply to security and other internal requirements.
• Participate in change management process, facilitate code deployment in Production and being responsible for project delivery.
• Review software health, code quality and security vulnerabilities on an on-going basis, evaluate and adopt new dev libraries/tools to improve code quality
• Assist in project documentation and run books
• Propose new technical solutions, perform POCs and work with technical leads/architects for new stack evaluation
• Improvement application stability by providing monitoring, handling failures, assisting in platform upgrades
• Coach Junior level software developers and analysts

• Candidate must have 8 plus years of hands-on experience in developing enterprise applications using Java
• Must have 5 plus years of Spring and Spring boot development experience
• In depth knowledge and practical experience on Functional programming, Threading/Concurrency, Collections, Exception Handling and other core java features
• Experience in writing REST , Microservice & APIs
• Experience in developing and integrating distributed Systems using EIPs - including performance, security and error handling aspects
• Able to perform system design (High /low), Workflow diagrams and participate in design review sessions
• Minimum 3 years of experience as technical team lead
• Excellent communication skills, communicate effectively with business and other stakeholders
• Able to work with teams in different geographical locations/time zones
• Messaging experience (AMQ or Kafka) is preferred to have
• Good knowledge of SQL, entity relations and writing queries
• Decent knowledge in protocols - http/https , SSL, TCP and others
• Able to work with CI/CD teams, knowledge of GIT and build tools- Maven is required
• Knowledge on cloud (Azure) and containers (OpenShift or similar) is preferred to have.
• Knowledge on Financial markets and Fixed income is nice to have.

The expected base salary ranges from $200k-$225k. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, successful candidates are eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is the 15th largest bank in the world as measured by total assets of ~$2 trillion. Mizuho's 60,000 employees worldwide offer comprehensive financial services to clients in 35 countries and 800 offices throughout the Americas, EMEA and Asia. Mizuho Americas is a leading provider of corporate and investment banking services to clients in the US, Canada, and Latin America. Through its acquisition of Greenhill , Mizuho provides M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory capabilities across Americas, Europe and Asia. Mizuho Americas employs approximately 3,500 professionals, and its capabilities span corporate and investment banking, capital markets, equity and fixed income sales & trading, derivatives, FX, custody and research. Visit www.mizuhoamericas.com.