Senior Calypso Technical Engineer

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Calypso Technical Engineer with 5+ years of experience to join our team in New York City, specializing in Java, Spring, and cloud-based solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Development Leadership

  • Design, architect, and deliver robust, production-grade backend services, APIs, and mid-tier integrations using Java and the Spring ecosystem.
  • Take full technical ownership of business-critical services from architectural design through production deployment.
  • Turn complex business requirements into scalable technical designs, making critical engineering trade-offs independently.
  • Champion architectural patterns and best practices across multiple squads and products.

• Modernization & Technical Excellence

  • Evaluate and strategically re-engineer internal code bases to modern standards and cloud-ready architectures.
  • Identify technical debt and lead refactoring initiatives without causing production downtime.
  • Maintain code excellence through rigorous testing strategies, deep code reviews, and continuous improvement.
  • Build systems for failover, disaster recovery, and maximum operational stability under heavy data loads.

• Cross-Product Integration & Collaboration

  • Build new features collaboratively across multiple products and domains within Markets Business.
  • Design and implement secure, scalable integration layers connecting core platforms with third-party vendor systems and enterprise platforms.
  • Deliver APIs, mid-tier integration, and backend functionality for trading, operations, and auction workflows.
  • Work effectively with different squads, contributing across multiple development stacks and technologies.

• Performance & Scale

  • Optimize application performance, ensure high availability, and manage data consistency across distributed architectures.
  • Build event-driven, low-latency systems capable of handling high-throughput transactional workloads.
  • Design for scale, resilience, and operational excellence in production environments.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Education & Experience

  • BS in Computer Science, MIS, or similar technical field.
  • 5+ years of production software engineering experience with demonstrable success across multiple products simultaneously.

• Advanced Java & Spring Expertise

  • Deep understanding of core Java (8-21), JVM internals, memory management, concurrency, and performance tuning.
  • Extensive production experience with Spring ecosystem: Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Spring Core.

• Integration & System Design

  • Proven ability to design and implement interfaces and integrations incorporating established best practices.
  • Strong experience designing integration layers, handling complex data translations, and API design (RESTful).
  • Experience building decision support applications for operations and trading in the financial industry.

• Distributed Systems & Messaging

  • Proven track record building scalable microservices and event-driven architectures.
  • Production experience with Kafka/Amazon MSK for streaming and messaging patterns.

• Data & Infrastructure

  • Strong experience with RDBMS (Oracle, PostgreSQL) including schema design, query optimization.
  • Experience with middle-tier caching solutions (Redis, Elasticache).
  • Production experience with App/Web servers (Tomcat, JBoss, etc.).

• Modern Engineering Practices

  • Knowledge and use of Agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum).
  • Test-Driven Development AND Behavior Driven Development (TDD/BDD).
  • Experience using Continuous Integration and Deployment tools (GitLab/GitHub, pipeline maintenance).

• Leadership & Autonomy

  • Demonstrated ability to take vague product requirements and independently design and deliver complete, secure technical solutions.
  • Strong analytical and communication skills with ability to influence technical direction.
  • Willingness to contribute and lead across multiple development stacks, areas, and technologies.

Preferred Experience & Technologies

• Transformation & Modernization

  • Proven track record of successfully refactoring and modernizing large-scale legacy code bases.
  • Experience with middle/back office financial platforms (e.g., Calypso).
  • Building and testing systems end-to-end with focus on zero-downtime deployments.

• Cloud & DevOps

  • Hands-on experience with AWS services: IAM, S3, CloudFront, Secrets Manager, EC2, ECS, ALB, RDS, Elasticache, MSK, AmazonMQ.
  • Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform.
  • CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance.

• Additional Technologies

  • Testing frameworks: Playwright or similar E2E testing tools.
  • High-throughput transactional systems in financial services.
  • Query optimization and database performance tuning.

We Offer

• Competitive salary: $120,000 - $200,000 USD Gross per year based on your interview results.
• Full-time position.
• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

About the Company

Luxoft has one of the world's leading Calypso practices. We are a top-tier Calypso Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration. We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered Calypso projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, and insurance.