Java Developer

At Silent Eight, we develop our own AI-based products to combat financial crimes that enable things like money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and systemic corruption. We're a leading RegTech firm working with large international financial institutions such as Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC. Join us and help make the world a safer place!

Responsibilities

• Responsible for designing, coding, and implementing software solutions using the Java programming language.

• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code that meets the project requirements and follows industry best practices and the engineering handbook.

• Maintaining and supporting existing Java applications. Troubleshoot issues, debug code, create unit test cases, and implement fixes and enhancements to ensure the smooth functioning of the silent eight solution.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including designers, product managers, and testers. They participate in code reviews, share knowledge and ideas, and contribute to the overall success of the project.

• Leverage their technical expertise to make informed decisions, select appropriate technologies, and optimize code performance.

• Problem solvers who analyze complex requirements and develop innovative solutions. Use their deep understanding of software design principles and are skilled at translating business needs into functional software components.

• Continuously seek opportunities to improve processes, enhance functionality, and adopt new technologies to deliver high-quality software solutions.

• Ensure that they deliver on time, with high quality, and within budget.

• Maintain CI tools like Jenkins and similar tools, and implement CI best practices.

• Deliver high-quality Java code for client-specific solutions and product changes, focusing on complex tasks

• Write and maintain technical documentation for customizations and new features.

• Follow coding standards, processes, and quality gates; suggest improvements proactively.

• Produce installation-ready artifacts and documentation to enable deployment without developer assistance.

• Participate in code reviews, CI/CD improvements, and test coverage expansion.

• Use AI confidently to speed up coding, testing, documentation, and problem analysis.

• Work transparently in Jira: update issues, create sub-tasks, provide estimates, and keep status clear.

• Collaborate with leads, product, architects, QA, and support teams to align on scope and delivery.

• Contribute to third-line support for complex issues when needed.

• Share knowledge with the team through docs and short enablement sessions.

• Work mainly with Java (Spring Boot/Framework, Spring Data JPA + Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Gradle)**

Requirements**

• Experience in software architecture, design, development and testing of Java 8 / Java 11+ & Spring

• Experience with the following: ORM (Hibernate), SQL, JSON, REST, MQ Messaging, Git, Maven or Gradle, Jenkins, JUnit 5/Spock

• Linux

• SOLID, OOP, design patterns

• Relational databases

• TDD, BDD practical understanding