Senior Java Consultant with DevOps exposure, Budapest

Lab49 is an award-winning specialist consultancy that creates bespoke technology in partnership with the most important companies in finance.

We were founded in 2002 to bring Silicon Valley solutions to Wall Street’s door. Since then, we have worked on successive waves of technological change, including distributed computing, high-speed automation, enterprise UX and digital distribution (for which Lab49 was among the first significant practices established on Wall Street), DevOps, cloud and data science.

Today, we are an established partner in financial markets, having delivered hundreds of projects for clients including all the world’s tier-one investment banks and many of the largest buy-side firms globally.

Being part of Lab49 means bringing your drive and creativity into an environment where your contributions will make immediate impact. Engineers work in cross functional teams, consulting directly with our clients, shaping not only technical solutions to business problems but delivering them into production.

We are seeking a Senior Java Developer with DevOps capabilities for a hybrid role to participate in complex and challenging projects to drive transformative change for our top-tier Financial Services clients. Your close collaboration with both our existing team and our client’s team is essential to make progress against an existing backlog of work for a custom internal data processing and transformation pipeline tool. Your work would be ~70% focused on development and ~30% infrastructure work.

Key responsibilities::
• Act as ahands-on engineer andsupport work across the Core practice; from small initiatives all the way up to the design and build of complex systems.
• Lead and participate in projects directly, serving as a role model for project teams and working with all other practices to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Support the integration of new applications and data sources by applying DevOps best practices.
• Improve existing continuous integration and deployment workflows.
• Cooperate engineers and stakeholders to ensure appropriate progress and results; must be commercial in approach.
• Develop strong relationships with clients as a strategic partner and technical advisor, helping us to expand our footprint and secure follow-on work.
• Partner with and support the business development team to create and deliver compelling pitches that help define the problem, captivate the client, present a solution, and work out the engagement (scope, structure, deliverables) terms.
• Build and reinforce your professional network through active engagement in industry events, public speaking opportunities, etc.
• Provide thought leadership for the Core Practice and actively encourage learning and development.
• Help drive the ongoing effort to find, attract, interview, and hire top software engineering talent.
• Be passionate about delivering quality code.

Required Skills and Experience::
• 7+ years of recent hands-on experience in designing and coding complex, enterprise, commercial-grade applications in core, server-side Java, ideally Java 8+
• Experience building RESTful Web Services
• Test-driven development, which includes Unit and End-to-End Testing
• Experience with Agile software development (e.g. SCRUM or KANBAN)
• Experience in creating and maintaining CI/CD flows not just for the product itself, but also code quality, automated QA, living documentation, and developer tooling (i.e. GitHub Actions). 
• Proficient with Docker and best practices for creating new API services.
• Experienced in Kubernetes cluster management and deployment
• Experience with SQL and creation of scheduled data pipeline jobs that power other systems.
• Proficiency in IaC (one of Ansible, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation is preferred) and cloud technologies (Amazon AWS).
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math, or related work experience.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Experience with GenAI tools is a plus.

Lab49/ION is committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive environment for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We respect the varied identities, abilities, cultures, and traditions of the individuals who comprise our organization and recognize the value that different backgrounds and points of view bring to our business.
Lab49/ION adheres to an equal employment opportunity policy that prohibits discriminatory practices or harassment against applicants or employees based on any legally impermissible factor.