Senior Developer

Location: Local to NY/NJ (must reside in-area) Company Overview Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned global staffing and IT recruiting firm connecting top technical talent with leading enterprise clients across the United States and Canada. Project Description Our client is seeking a Senior Developer, preferably with exposure to cloud architectures and public cloud offerings, to join a team building a resilient, scalable, and secure cloud-based settlement platform. The role spans requirements refinement, architecture, design, and implementation — including writing code, building automated tests, and creating CI/CD pipelines following best software development and DevOps standards. This is an agile environment requiring direct interaction with users, product owners, business analysts, and cross-functional technologists. The ideal candidate is technically strong, delivery-focused, and comfortable moving fluidly across development, data analysis, testing, and stakeholder coordination to drive successful outcomes rather than focusing on a single discipline. Key Responsibilities • Actively participate in refinement sessions to ensure requirements are clearly defined • Write clean, performant, scalable, testable, and reusable code, and build automated tests • Guide and mentor junior developers on best software development practices • Follow DevOps best practices — build CI/CD pipelines and enable telemetry capture • Contribute to enhancing team standards and improving engineering processes • Design and implement high-volume messaging and REST-based middleware • Define scalable database models, relational or otherwise • Move fluidly across software development, data analysis, testing, and stakeholder coordination to drive project execution Mandatory Skills • 7+ years of hands-on experience building distributed, event-based systems using agile practices • Sound understanding of microservice architecture and design patterns, system resiliency, scalability, security, and observability • Strong working knowledge of core Java, Spring Boot, and other Spring Framework features • Experience designing and implementing high-volume messaging- and REST-based middleware • Experience defining scalable database models, relational or otherwise • Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools • Familiarity with cloud-based development principles • Strong oral and written communication skills • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field • Fast learner with a strong desire for continuous improvement Nice-to-Have Skills • Experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud • Experience with Angular • Familiarity with Kafka and MongoDB • Prior experience in FinTech application development • Experience working within a global delivery team • Banking domain experience is an added advantage, not a dealbreaker