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
- 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
- Lead the design and implementation of distributed micro-services using Java, Spring Boot and AWS
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical challenges in production environments, ensuring system reliability and performance
- Provide guidance to a team of software engineers on daily tasks and activities
- Mentor and develop junior engineers, helping them grow their technical skills and career paths
- Identify opportunities to eliminate or automate remediation of recurring issues to improve overall operational stability
- Manage stakeholder relationships and the team's work in accordance with compliance standards, service level agreements and business requirements
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- 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
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Experience with AWS Cloud
- 8+ years of applied experience with a focus on Java and Spring Boot.
- Proven track record of leading teams in building and deploying distributed micro-services architectures
- Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, web services, and integration patterns
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Modern emerging technologies
- Familiarity with modern full stack technologies.
- Exposure to relational and non-relational databases such as Oracle and Redis
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like ECS or kubernetes
- Knowledgeable on DevOps