Sr. Java Software Engineer

About Us:

We are PIMCO, a leading global asset management firm. We manage investments and develop solutions across the full spectrum of asset classes, strategies and vehicles: fixed income, equities, commodities, asset allocation, ETFs, hedge funds and private equity. PIMCO is one of the largest investment managers, actively managing more than $2.2 trillion in assets for clients around the world. PIMCO has over 3,070 employees in 22 offices globally. PIMCO is recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients.

PIMCO is one of the world's premier fixed income investment managers with thousands of professionals around the world united in a single purpose: creating opportunities for our clients in every environment. Since 1971, we have brought innovation and expertise to our partnership with the institutions, financial advisors and millions of individual investors who entrust us with their assets. We aspire to cultivate performance and leadership through empowering our people, diversity of thought, and a commitment to an inclusive culture that engages in our global communities.

Position Description:

You will be a key player on a team developing state of the art software systems for the financial markets that are highly performant and adaptive, and we are currently transitioning to a distributive cloud environment. You will be part of an exceptional company renowned for their innovation and success while emphasizing a balanced work and life focus, diversification and individual enrichment. The team you will be joining has built many successful products dealing with large scale transaction processing and thus you will have ample opportunity to learn, grow and contribute.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for the architecture and design of distributed services that efficiently processes extensive amounts of transactions and data. You will participate in code reviews where you will provide detailed comments to others and be provided thorough feedback for your own code. You will spend a significant portion of your time in various forms of testing such as unit, workflow, regression and canary tests. You will be part of a team providing real-time production support to our trading floor.

Position Requirements:

• 3+ years professional software development experience
• Solid development experience in core Java
• Experience developing Distributed Systems
• Good understanding of software development process
• Superb communication skills
• Solid understanding and experience in the following areas:

1.Java core containers / data structures
2.Ability to understand and rapidly implement efficient algorithms
3.Multi-threading
4.Design patterns: when they are applicable, and their boundaries
5.Can recognize and correct "code smells"

Preferred, but not required experience in some of the following areas:

• Cloud development and tools
• Python
• Database development
• Linux scripting
• Maven
• Writing restful services
• Java messaging service
• Spring dependency injection

Benefits:

PIMCO is committed to offering a comprehensive portfolio of employee benefits designed to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Benefits vary by location but may include:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life insurance and travel coverage
• 401(k) (defined contribution) retirement savings, retirement plan, pension contribution from your first day of employment
• Work/life programs such as flexible work arrangements, parental leave and support, employee assistance plan, commuter benefits, health club discounts, and educational/CFA certification reimbursement programs
• Community involvement opportunities with The PIMCO Foundation in each PIMCO office