Job responsibilities
- Executes creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Develops secure high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Identifies opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability of software applications and systems
- Leads evaluation sessions with external vendors, startups, and internal teams to drive outcomes-oriented probing of architectural designs, technical credentials, and applicability for use within existing systems and information architecture
- Leads communities of practice across Software Engineering to drive awareness and use of new and leading-edge technologies
- Adds to team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- 8-10 years of software development experience with proficiency in one or more general purpose programming languages such as Core Java, Spring Frameworks, REST API, Micro-service architecture, and other web technologies
- Experience with development and build tools (or similar): IntelliJ/Eclipse, Maven, BitBucket/Git/Gitflow, JMeter/Blazemeter, Hibernate, Spring Batch, Spring Boot, MVC and Spring Cloud
- Good knowledge of AWS, Container technologies (ECS/EKS), API Gateways, and Lambda.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced knowledge of architecture and design principles
- Proficiency in one or more programming language(s)
- Proficiency in automation and continuous delivery methods
- Proficient in all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Advanced understanding of agile methodologies such as CI/CD, Application Resiliency, and Security
- Demonstrated proficiency in software applications and technical processes within a technical discipline (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Practical cloud native experience
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience with frontend frameworks (Angular/React)
- Experience with messaging services such as Apache Kafka, SQS
- Knowledge of the financial services industry