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Director, Software Engineer (Java Development)

Request Technology, LLC
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/9/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/9/2026

Job Details

Director, Software Engineering

Salary: Open Bonus

Location: Chicago, IL

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*

Qualifications

  • 8-10 years of experience in building large-scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
  • Experience (including internal workings of Java) in Java 8 is required.
  • Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.
  • Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis
  • Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
  • Experience with testing frameworks like Junit and Citrus is desirable.
  • Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
  • Experience following Git workflows is required.
  • Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.is desirable.
  • Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of highly skilled software engineers in design and development of the new generation highly scalable resilient cloud-based Clearing applications.
  • Mentor and collaborate with developers, architects, and product owners to successfully deliver business and operational functionality for internal and external users.
  • Manage distributed development team, collaborate, and coordinate with vendors
  • Developing solutions to complex technical challenges while coding, testing, troubleshooting, debugging, and documenting the systems you develop
  • Lead the efforts to optimize application performance and resilience through analysis, code refactoring, and system tuning
  • Recommending architectural changes and new technologies and tools that improve the efficiency and quality of systems and development processes.
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