• 9+ years of professional backend experience with Java (Core Java, Collections/Concurrency, Streams, JVM internals). • Experience with Capital Markets, trading, market data, or financial analytics. • Strong with Spring ecosystem (Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security; understanding of Spring Cloud is a plus). • 5+ years of professional experience with Angular • Exposure to Python for tooling and automation. • Proven expertise with PostgreSQL: indexing strategies, query tuning (EXPLAIN/ANALYZE), transactions/locking, isolation levels. • Hands on AWS experience: deploying and operating production services (at least 3 of ECS/EKS/Lambda, RDS/Aurora, S3, SQS/SNS/MSK/Kinesis, CloudWatch, IAM). • Solid API design (REST/gRPC), versioning, pagination, and backward compatibility. • Production grade observability (logs, metrics, tracing; OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, or similar). • CI/CD with GitHub and GitHub Actions (branching strategies, code reviews, trunk based or GitFlow). • Practical use of GitHub Copilot (or similar AI coding assistants) to boost productivity while maintaining code quality. • Experience building fault tolerant distributed systems (circuit breakers, bulkheads, rate limiting; resilience patterns). • Proficiency with containerization (Docker) and infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation—at least one). • Strong understanding of secure coding practices and common vulns (OWASP Top 10). • Excellent communication; ability to turn ambiguous requirements into actionable technical plans.