Contact Us

Vice President, Java Engineer (New Projects)

At Yardstick Management, we create seats at tables in the world’s leading companies for underrepresented and marginalized individuals. Below, you will find positions we’re sourcing for our partners. These roles range from Manager to C-Suite level positions. We hope that by browsing through these opportunities, you will find your next career goal and we’ll help make that connection for you. We look forward to assisting in your search.

Vice President, Java Engineer (New Projects)

Location

Atlanta, GA
}

Full Time

Full Time

Level

Director/Sr. Director

A leading global financial institution and services company, providing a broad range of innovation and collaborative solutions for cultivating environments and driving technology focused applications, resources and products in digitizing workflows and new strategies for their markets and clients. 

Position Description:

Our business, a new digital opportunity, has been fully funded to deliver a unique, cutting-edge product from the ground up, in an ambitious and dynamic environment. We are looking for passionate individuals who thrive on teams that rapidly ideate, implement and iterate, in order to and produce the best product possible for our clients.

We are building this new, cloud-native product from the ground up – join us on our journey and influence the architecture and implementation we use to develop a highly-scalable, revenue producing platform.

Key Roles and Responsibilities: 

  • Develop APIs, workflows and libraries that handle our core functionality
  • Be involved in all phases of software development life cycle (SDLC) including effort estimation, the gathering of business requirements, the design, development, reviewing, building, testing, and deployment of commercial scale software changes
  • Make code quality decisions, and ship solutions to provide value to our business
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, our business, and engineers to define product vision and objectives
  • Work as part of a team to hit delivery milestones and navigate blocker issues
  • Apply Agile methodologies in a sprint-based development team
  • Engage with support teams to troubleshoot and solve production issue faced by users
  • Analyze new tools and technologies from the Java community to proof of concept and come up with recommendations to integrate into our platform

Functional Background & Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering or related discipline
  • 5+ years of software development experience with Java
  • Experience with REST and/or GraphQL
  • Experience building stream-processing applications (Spark streaming, Apache-Flink, Kafka, etc.)
  • Excellent object oriented or functional analysis and design skills
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and designing for performance
  • Effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfortable multi-tasking and working as part of a global team
  • Experience with AWS or similar Cloud platforms
  • Experience building scalable and distributed micro-services
  • Knowledge of Snowflake, Elasticsearch, NoSQL databases
  • Commercial awareness

Apply for this position

Demographic Data is Optional

Our business is founded on a mission to bring diversity, equity, and inclusion across business sectors and company leadership. At Yardstick, we celebrate diversity and welcome folks to be as open and candid to us in this process as they deem comfortable.

Individuals seeking employment at Yardstick Management partners’ organizations are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

Any information you provide to us is purely informational to track the demographics of our applicants and talent community. If we ever report on this data, it will be in aggregate.