Java Fullstack Engineer - Senior - Consulting - Location OPEN

About the role

Join EY and help to build the future with some of the strongest engineering teams in the world. As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, you will independently develop, test, and maintain high-quality software solutions across the technology stack. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver scalable, secure, and production-ready applications that are increasingly shaped by intelligent, data-driven capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions to complex problems, recommending changes to policies and establishing procedures that impact your work area.
• Exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Provide direction and feedback to team members, ensuring successful task completion.
• Build and maintain backend services and APIs using modern backend programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, or JavaScript or TypeScript, across technology ecosystems including Node.js, Spring, and .NET.
• Implement new features and enhancements across frontend and backend systems while optimizing performance.
• Contribute to building and shipping intelligent application features, including integrations with large language models, predictive capabilities, and agent-driven workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to refine requirements and translate them into technical designs and functional code.
• Contribute to system and application architecture, including data models, integrations, security, and cloud deployment considerations.
• Participate fully in agile delivery, including sprint planning, refinement, reviews, demos, and retrospectives.
• Create and maintain technical documentation aligned with best practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across development and production environments.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture.
• See projects through from inception to launch and continued evolution in partnership with EY and client leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 3 or more years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend programming language, such as Python, Java, C#, or JavaScript or TypeScript.
• Experience with full stack development and one or more backend frameworks or technology ecosystems.
• Working knowledge of modern frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or equivalent.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
• Strong database skills across relational and non-relational data stores, including query optimization.
• Experience using Git-based version control and collaborative development workflows.
• Comfort working in local and cloud environments, including command-line tooling and system configuration.
• Ability to independently identify, debug, and resolve issues.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness and ability to travel based on client needs, up to approximately 25 percent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building and operating cloud-native or microservices-based applications, preferably on Azure or similar cloud platforms.
• Hands-on exposure to cloud services for compute, data, identity, and monitoring.
• Familiarity with service-oriented, API-driven, and distributed system architectures, including event-driven patterns.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience designing or integrating intelligent application capabilities, including large language models, embeddings, or retrieval-based approaches.
• Comfort designing systems where AI-driven capabilities are considered early, with an understanding of when AI is appropriate versus traditional deterministic logic.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows, agent-based patterns, or orchestration approaches.
• Understanding of security, identity, and access management in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and production observability.
• Experience supporting applications post-launch in enterprise or regulated environments.

Pay

The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $102,500 to $187,900. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $122,900 to $213,400. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography.

Schedule

Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.