FedNow Software Engineer

About the role

The Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) is introducing a new mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative, the FedNow service, which offers real-time gross settlement (RTGS) and clearing functionality. This position involves designing, developing, and implementing complex solutions in accordance with FedNow and Fed standards, primarily focusing on backend software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a Software Engineer to design, develop, and implement new complex solutions in accordance with FedNow and Fed Standards.
• Develops software solutions (primarily backend) in Cloud.
• Provides input into strategic and tactical planning of software solutions and software development lifecycle changes.
• Designs and builds Java application components, and integrates with software components and products that will be high performing, with world-class scale and reliability.
• Trains and consults cross-functionally within the organization on troubleshooting/resolving highly complex and/or highly time-critical problems.
• Collaborates with analysts as part of an integrated Agile team to define user requirements and conduct design reviews for the development of complex and innovative cloud applications using modern internet-scale technologies and Serverless architecture in Cloud.
• Demonstrates skill dexterity; seeks to continuously adapt and employ new technical skills alongside proven staples.
• Ensures that the quality of software developed, maintained, and enhanced in-house and installed into production is sufficient to prevent the occurrence of catastrophic defects that cause the customer significant problems, missed deadlines, or interruption to the production environment.
• Ensures compliance with Fed policies, procedures, and standards.
• Provides primary or backup production support for applications and components, including but not limited to timely resolution to production problems and processing issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent background or experience.
• 3-5 years software engineering experience in a team-based environment.
• Demonstrated experience engineering software with cloud-first architectures.
• Experience with building and deploying solutions in Cloud.
• Experience with Serverless architecture for building software solutions in Cloud.
• Experience with CI/CD build tools, and DevOps processes.
• Experience developing high performance, high volume, highly available (24/7/365) environments.
• Experience with Agile software engineering (Scrum, Kanban, Lean etc).
• Deep expertise in Java and proficient knowledge of programming languages (Python and TypeScript a bonus).
• Proficient knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows).
• Proficient knowledge of database development (SQL, Oracle, DB2).
• Experience with AWS services, and integrating them into an application.
• Experience with leading edge Cloud technologies, such as Kafka, in-memory and NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, memcache etc).
• Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities.
• Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication abilities.
• Proficient knowledge of cloud security for application development and delivery.
• Familiarity with IaC concepts (Terraform experience a bonus).

Qualifications

• Expertise in Java and proficient knowledge of programming languages (Python and TypeScript a bonus).
• Proficient knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows).
• Proficient knowledge of database development (SQL, Oracle, DB2).
• Experience with AWS services, and integrating them into an application.
• Experience with leading edge Cloud technologies, such as Kafka, in-memory and NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, memcache etc).
• Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities.
• Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication abilities.
• Proficient knowledge of cloud security for application development and delivery.
• Familiarity with IaC concepts (Terraform experience a bonus).

Skills

• Java
• Programming Languages (Python and TypeScript a bonus)
• Operating Systems (Linux, Unix, Windows)
• Database Development (SQL, Oracle, DB2)
• AWS Services
• Leading Edge Cloud Technologies (Kafka, in-memory and NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, memcache etc)
• Cloud Security
• IaC Concepts (Terraform experience a bonus)

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$132,300 - $165,400 - $198,500.

Schedule

Full Time.