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, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and proficient advanced experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Advanced knowledge of software applications and technical processes with considerable in-depth knowledge in one or more technical disciplines (e.g., cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning, mobile, etc.)
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
- Hands-on experience building containerized applications using Microservices architecture, Java, Spring framework, Maven
- Practical AWS experience, including EKS, Dynamo and Messaging services
- Ability to solve data-oriented problems using multiple relevant technologies e.g. AWS Dynamo, SQS, SNS while optimizing for performance
- Experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to enhance coding and development processes, such as using AI-driven code assistants or automated testing frameworks
- Proven track record of continuous improvement
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Proven experience in designing, building and supporting large distributed systems
- Certifications in target areas (AWS / Kubernetes etc)
- Experience of Java Reactive Stream programming