Senior Software Engineer – API & Cloud Integrations (Java, AWS)

About the role

The Senior Software Engineer plays a crucial role in developing and supporting application solutions using web and cloud technologies. They collaborate with other development staff, including contract and offshore Software Engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Code, test, identify, implement, and document solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies
• Perform design and analysis for deliverables
• Lead larger team design sessions for system level architecture solutions
• Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies and mentor other team members in design/coding standards
• Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts
• Support analysis and general architectural design across platforms toward the development of end-to-end solutions
• Utilize third-party software development frameworks, open-source libraries, and APIs to develop basic application solutions
• Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables
• Aid in preparing presentations and may lead development meetings

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent education/experience
• Three years of Core Java experience
• Strong knowledge of coding platforms/frameworks (e.g. JAVA, OOD, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, OOP, Service Oriented Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Core Architecture)
• Two years of experience and proficiency in database design techniques and philosophies (e.g. RDBMS, Document, Star Schema, Kimball Model)
• Experience with NoSQL database technologies (e.g. MS Cosmos DB, Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB)
• Understanding of cloud services (e.g. AWS/Azure) utilizing various supporting tools (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, Blob, Cosmos, Data Factory, SQL Data Warehouse, ARM Templates, Event Hubs)
• Experience with build and deployment tools (e.g. Visual Studio, Git/Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, SQL Management Studio, Nunit, Ajax)
• Knowledge of developing distributed computing (MS HPC, Sagemaker, Spark)
• Experience with integration and service frameworks (e.g. API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger API, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices)
• Knowledge of Microservices and REST based API development (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework, IIS, Swagger, Odata, .NET API 2, .NET API Core, AutoMapper)
• Knowledge with continuous integration/development tools (e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Containers, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container automation) in a Ci/CD pipeline
• Familiarity with modern frontend development frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Vue.js, ASP.NET MVC, HTTP, HTML, JS, CSS, Ajax)
• Advanced understanding of software development and research tools
• Attention to detail and results oriented, with a strong customer focus
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Technical communication skills
• Problem-solving and technical communication skills
• Ability to prioritize workload to meet tight deadlines

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding of advanced analytics and machine learning concepts and technology implementations
• Experience with agentic coding platform like kiro and copilot
• Understanding of data warehousing architecture and implementation, including source to target mappings and ETL
• Technology or platform certifications (e.g. AWS, Microsoft)
• Knowledge of the financial services industry