Advanced Software Developer

Role: Software Developer - Advanced
Location: Quincy, Massachusetts
Work Model: Hybrid - 4 days per week onsite

Let's create our future together at The AES Group!

About The AES Group:
The AES Group is a premier technology and engineering consulting company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 years to deliver innovative solutions that have the greatest positive impact on society. AES has helped over 40 business enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, engage their customers, empower their employees, and transform their business operations with the power of cloud, data, AI, engineering, and other emerging technologies.

Opportunity Highlights

• Work on enterprise-scale applications within the capital markets domain.
• Contribute to modern, event-driven systems using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with experienced engineering teams on system design, development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Gain exposure to high-volume back-office technology platforms and distributed application environments.

Role Overview

The AES Group INC. is seeking an experienced Advanced Software Developer for one of our clients in the financial services industry. The successful candidate will design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable enterprise applications supporting capital markets and back-office operations.

This role requires strong backend Java development experience, hands-on expertise with Spring Boot, event-driven architecture, relational databases, distributed caching, and Kubernetes-based deployments. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working across the full software development lifecycle and supporting business-critical applications in production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain reliable enterprise software applications.
• Build scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Develop and support event-driven applications using Kafka or comparable messaging platforms.
• Participate in system design, technical analysis, code reviews, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Design and manage containerized applications deployed within Kubernetes environments.
• Develop database solutions using relational database platforms.
• Troubleshoot application, integration, performance, and production issues.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, infrastructure, and business teams to deliver secure and maintainable solutions.
• Follow established software development, documentation, source-control, and DevOps practices.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on Java development experience using Java 8 or later.
• Strong experience with Spring Boot, preferably Spring Boot 3.
• Proven experience in enterprise system design, application development, testing, and production support.
• 3+ years of experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies, such as RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, or Azure Service Bus.
• 5+ years of experience with relational databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with distributed caching or in-memory data-grid technologies, such as Hazelcast.
• Proficiency with Git or Bitbucket, Jira, Maven, and related development tools.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing scalable applications on Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of capital markets and back-office technology platforms.
• Strong analytical, communication, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now and join us on our journey!