Java Developer – ETFs, Investment Management & Spring Boot

Job Summary

Synechron is seeking a Senior Java Developer – ETF Domain with 5+ years of hands-on Java development experience and strong knowledge of Exchange-Traded Funds, capital markets, investment management, and ETF lifecycle processes. The role will focus on designing, developing, integrating, and supporting enterprise applications for ETF creation and redemption, fund accounting, portfolio management, trading operations, portfolio analytics, and regulatory reporting. This position contributes to business objectives by delivering scalable, secure, and reliable solutions that support investment management workflows and financial market operations.

Software Requirements

Required

• Java: 5+ years of hands-on development experience using Java; practical experience with Java 8, 11, or 17.

• Spring Boot and Spring MVC: Experience developing enterprise applications, REST services, and microservices.

• REST APIs and JSON: Experience designing, developing, consuming, testing, and supporting RESTful APIs and JSON-based integrations.

• Microservices: Experience designing or developing microservices-based applications and service integrations.

• SQL and Relational Databases: Strong SQL skills and experience with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or equivalent relational databases.

• Messaging Technologies: Experience with Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, or similar messaging platforms.

• Git: Experience with source control, branching, merging, and code collaboration practices.

• Maven: Experience managing Java builds, dependencies, packaging, and project configuration.

• Jenkins and CI/CD Pipelines: Experience supporting automated build, testing, and deployment processes.

• Development and Testing Tools: Experience using tools for debugging, unit testing, integration testing, defect tracking, code reviews, and technical documentation.

• ETF and Investment Management Systems: Experience working with applications supporting ETF, portfolio management, fund accounting, trading, market data, or regulatory reporting processes.

Preferred

• Cloud Platforms: Exposure to AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent cloud environments.

• Containerization and Orchestration: Experience with containerized Java applications and related deployment practices.

• Financial Market Data Platforms: Exposure to market data integrations, pricing data, reference data, or financial instrument processing.

• Observability Tools: Experience with application monitoring, centralized logging, performance monitoring, and service health tools.

• API and Messaging Testing Tools: Experience with tools used to validate REST APIs, asynchronous services, and message flows.

• Agile Delivery Tools: Experience with backlog management, sprint planning, defect tracking, and delivery reporting tools.

Overall Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and support scalable Java applications for ETF and investment management business processes.

• Translate ETF business requirements into technical solutions, detailed designs, development tasks, and testable acceptance outcomes.

• Develop and support applications related to ETF creation and redemption, fund accounting, NAV calculations, portfolio management, trading operations, portfolio analytics, and regulatory reporting.

• Build, consume, and support RESTful APIs and microservices-based applications using Java, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, JSON, and approved integration patterns.

• Integrate applications with market data sources, trading platforms, portfolio management systems, and other financial systems.

• Design and implement reliable data and messaging flows using Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, or comparable technologies.

• Participate in system design, architecture discussions, performance optimization, code reviews, testing, deployment, and post-production support.

• Apply object-oriented programming principles, design patterns, coding standards, secure development practices, and maintainable engineering approaches.

• Investigate and resolve production issues, identify root causes, communicate impacts, and implement timely and sustainable fixes.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product teams, analysts, architects, testers, operations teams, and other technical contributors in Agile delivery environments.

• Ensure solutions support applicable investment management, regulatory, compliance, data protection, and operational requirements.

• Maintain technical documentation, API specifications, data mappings, design records, test evidence, support procedures, and release information.

• Contribute to efficient application design by reducing unnecessary processing, improving resource utilization, and considering sustainability in cloud and infrastructure usage where applicable.

Technical Skills (By Category)

Programming Languages

Essential

• 5+ years of professional experience developing applications using Java.

• Practical experience with Java 8, Java 11, or Java 17.

• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, exception handling, collections, concurrency, interfaces, abstraction, and modular application design.

• Experience applying established design patterns to create maintainable and reusable solutions.

• Ability to write readable, testable, and supportable production code.

Preferred

• Experience with scripting languages used for automation, testing, monitoring, or deployment support.

• Exposure to programming practices for high-volume, low-latency, or event-driven financial applications.

Databases and Data Management

Essential

• Strong SQL skills, including joins, subqueries, aggregations, transactions, stored procedures, and query optimization.

• Experience with Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or equivalent relational databases.

• Ability to design and work with data models, persistence layers, data mappings, and transaction-based processing.

• Experience validating data across application services, databases, APIs, and integrated financial systems.

• Understanding of data accuracy, consistency, auditability, and lineage requirements for investment and trading applications.

Preferred

• Experience working with financial market data, reference data, pricing data, portfolio data, or transaction data.

• Exposure to performance tuning for high-volume databases and data-intensive applications.

• Familiarity with non-relational databases or distributed data storage.

Cloud Technologies

Essential

• Understanding of cloud computing concepts relevant to application development, deployment, scalability, availability, and support.

• Ability to contribute to Java application delivery in cloud-based or hybrid environments.

Preferred

• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or equivalent cloud platforms.

• Experience deploying Java services using cloud-native infrastructure, containers, managed databases, or messaging services.

• Exposure to cloud monitoring, logging, security controls, and resource optimization.

Frameworks and Libraries

Essential

• Strong experience with Spring Boot and Spring MVC.

• Experience developing RESTful services and microservices.

• Experience working with JSON, API integrations, service validation, exception handling, and API versioning.

• Understanding of dependency injection, configuration management, service communication, and distributed application design.

• Experience integrating Java applications with messaging platforms such as Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, or equivalent technologies.

Preferred

• Exposure to libraries and frameworks for persistence, validation, security, testing, monitoring, or API documentation.

• Experience with event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, or distributed transaction patterns.

• Familiarity with container and service orchestration frameworks.

Development Tools and Methodologies

Essential

• Experience with Git for source control and collaborative development.

• Experience with Maven for build management and dependency management.

• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience participating in requirements analysis, technical design, coding, testing, code reviews, deployment, and production support.

• Understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and iterative delivery.

• Experience using tools for defect tracking, testing, documentation, release coordination, and operational support.

Preferred

• Experience with automated unit, integration, API, regression, and performance testing.

• Exposure to continuous delivery, deployment automation, infrastructure automation, and release governance.

• Experience with application monitoring, centralized logging, alerting, and production diagnostics.

Security Protocols

Essential

• Understanding of secure software development practices for Java applications and REST APIs.

• Experience applying authentication, authorization, input validation, secure error handling, and protection of sensitive data.

• Awareness of secure API communication, access controls, vulnerability management, audit logging, and least-privilege principles.

• Ability to follow applicable regulatory, compliance, data protection, and security requirements for investment management and financial applications.

Preferred

• Experience with OAuth, JWT, TLS, API gateways, role-based access control, or comparable security mechanisms.

• Exposure to secure coding reviews, application security testing, encryption practices, and regulatory control assessments.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Java development.

• Demonstrated experience developing, integrating, testing, deploying, and supporting enterprise Java applications.

• Strong experience with Java 8, 11, or 17, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, microservices, REST APIs, SQL, and relational databases.

• Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka, JMS, RabbitMQ, or comparable platforms.

• Strong understanding of the ETF domain, including ETF creation and redemption mechanisms and related operational workflows.

• Experience with portfolio management, fund accounting, NAV calculations, asset management, trading operations, or investment management systems.

• Understanding of equity, fixed-income, and capital markets instruments.

• Experience working with financial market data, reporting systems, regulatory reporting, or compliance-related processing.

• Experience collaborating with business and technology teams in Agile delivery environments.

• Candidates may qualify through equivalent professional experience in capital markets technology, investment management systems, fund administration applications, or financial data engineering roles where they can demonstrate comparable Java development and ETF domain outcomes.

Day-to-Day Activities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain Java services and applications supporting ETF creation and redemption, portfolio management, fund accounting, trading operations, analytics, and reporting.

• Participate in requirements discussions, technical design reviews, Agile ceremonies, code reviews, testing activities, and collaboration with business and cross-functional technology teams.

• Build and support REST APIs, microservices, messaging flows, database integrations, market data connections, and third-party financial system interfaces.

• Investigate production issues, optimize application performance, document technical decisions, and make implementation recommendations within approved architecture, security, and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant professional experience may be considered.

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Java development, including enterprise application development and production support.

• Demonstrated experience with Java 8/11/17, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, microservices, REST APIs, SQL, messaging technologies, Git, Maven, and Jenkins.

• Relevant training or certifications in Java development, cloud technologies, Agile delivery, capital markets, investment management, or related areas are preferred.

• Commitment to continuous professional development through technical learning, domain training, certification opportunities, and evolving Java, cloud, security, and financial technology practices.

Professional Competencies

• Apply structured critical thinking and problem-solving skills to analyze requirements, investigate defects, optimize performance, and resolve production issues.

• Collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, product teams, architects, developers, testers, operations teams, and other delivery participants.

• Communicate technical designs, ETF business processes, risks, dependencies, decisions, and delivery status clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Adapt to changing ETF processes, investment management requirements, technology platforms, regulatory expectations, and delivery priorities.

• Identify practical opportunities to improve application scalability, reliability, automation, maintainability, data quality, and efficient use of technology resources.

• Manage time and priorities across development, design, code reviews, testing, issue resolution, documentation, stakeholder collaboration, and release commitments.