Job responsibilities
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors.
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others.
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus.
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies.
- Adds to the 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.
- Experience building complex distributed systems using Java (11/17) on AWS
- Deep knowledge of AWS product/services and Kubernetes/container technologies and how they are best used for specific workloads.
- Ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies and patterns.
- Good understanding of established patterns, such as stability patterns/anti-patterns, event-based architecture, CQRS and process orchestration.
- Real world experience in building out applications on AWS across multi AZ, multi region and multi-cloud vendor environments.
- Experience in designing practical architectures that business engineering teams adopt for application development.
- An excellent understanding of modern engineering practices to take advantage of key benefits of Public Cloud (e.g. auto-scaling)
- A mindset geared towards a fantastic end-to-end engineering experience supported by excellent tooling and automation.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability.
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Understanding of Big Data stack (Spark/Iceberg)
- Understanding of established patterns, such as stability patterns/anti-patterns, event-based architecture, CQRS and process orchestration.