Mizuho Financial

Technical Lead Java Developer

Mizuho Financial$200K — $225K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of hands-on enterprise application development experience using Java.
  • 5+ years of experience with Spring and Spring Boot.
  • Strong understanding of functional programming, threading, collections, and exception handling in Java.
  • Proficiency in writing RESTful services, microservices, and APIs.
  • Experience in developing distributed systems with focus on performance and security.
  • Minimum 3 years in a technical leadership role, capable of guiding teams effectively.
  • Excellent communication skills for stakeholder interaction.
  • Experience working with geographically dispersed teams.

Responsibilities

  • Work on high-impact projects in Fixed Income and other business areas.
  • Engage in hands-on coding and unit testing throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Participate actively in Agile stand-ups and collaborate with team members.
  • Conduct design and code reviews to maintain project quality.
  • Ensure compliance with coding standards and security requirements.
  • Lead deployment processes and oversee project delivery in production environments.
  • Continuously monitor software quality, security, and evaluate new tools to enhance development.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with flexibility for remote work.
  • Opportunity for discretionary bonuses based on performance.
  • Generous employee benefits package.
Full Job Description
Key Responsibilities:

  • 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


Qualifications:

  • 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.

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Other requirements

Mizuho has in place a hybrid working program, with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, needs of your department, as well as local laws and regulatory obligations. Roles in some of our departments have greater in-office requirements that will be communicated to you as part of the recruitment process

About Mizuho Financial

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is a Japanese banking holding company headquartered in the ?temachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The name "mizuho" literally means "abundant rice" in Japanese. It holds assets in excess of $1.8 trillion US dollars through its control of Mizuho Bank, Mizuho Corporate Bank, and other operating subsidiaries. The company's combined holdings form the second largest financial services group in Japan. Its banking businesses rank third in Japan after Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. It is the 15th largest banking institution in the world by total assets as of December 2018.
Learn more about Mizuho Financial
Size
54,492 employees
Market Cap
$35 billion
Industry
Net Income
$84.4 billion
5 Year Trend
-0.6%
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