Sr. Java/AWS Software Engineer

The Senior Java/AWS Software Engineer is a technical leader who combines deep programming expertise with business acumen to deliver high-quality software solutions. This role requires advanced technical skills, strong collaborative abilities, and a service-oriented approach to software development. The person acts as a technical steward who mentors junior team members while maintaining a growth mindset. This position is responsible for developing, and maintaining complex solutions that align with business objectives and meet high standards of quality and performance.

About This Role

• Design, develop, refine, support, and maintain responsive front end web applications, microservices, message queues, and data stores that are critical to customers and partners to reliably and securely access and transact with company business capabilities
• Migrate existing Angular NG front ends to React to align with enterprise direction
• Integrate APIs and user interfaces with various IAM, SSO, SaaS, and fraud prevention systems
• Implement, integrate, and support REST and event driven APIs on AWS using Java, Spring Boot, JPA, AWS SDK, EKS, Lambda, EventBride, RDS, SNS, and SQS
• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform
• Provision and manage Anypoint Flex gateway for APIs consumed by other applications
• Develop and maintain Dynatrace metrics, dashboards, and alerts to monitor applications
• Utilize and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Utilize Generative AI to improve productivity and automation
• Write clean, efficient code leveraging advanced language features and embracing AI tools to increase productivity
• Gather, organize, and refine business needs into clear, actionable requirements that align with technical capabilities
• Partner effectively with team members and cross-functional teams using Agile methodologies
• Profile, debug, and optimize application performance using advanced techniques
• Conduct thorough code reviews for junior team members with constructive feedback
• Champion software quality and testing standards across the development team
• Respond swiftly and effectively to production incidents, applying deep technical knowledge to drive issue resolution
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to bridge the gap between technical and business teams
• Deliver quality, healthy, and resilient services with appropriate monitoring and maintenance strategies
• Mentor and guide junior team members in their technical development
• Set and maintain technical standards within the team
• Adapt to evolving situations and generate innovative solutions to complex technical challenges
• Demonstrate commitment to continuous learning and improvement for self and team
• Implement team strategies for collective growth and knowledge sharing
• Participate in the squad on-call rotation
  
  

Required

The Ideal Candidate for This Role:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field
• 5-7 years of professional software development experience
• Designing and developing responsive web front ends from scratch with Node.js, Typescript, CSS, and HTML
• Integrating front ends and microservices with REST APIs
• Developing front ends and APIs that use OAuth 2.0 authentication
• Experience with mitigating OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities in web and API applications
• Deploying and managing applications in public cloud environments
• Developing and maintaining unit tests with high application coverage using frameworks like Jest, Protractor, JUnit, and Mockito
• Git and branching/MR/PR processes
• Implementing microservices using Maven, Java, JPA, and Spring Boot
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git preferred)
• Expert Understanding of software development lifecycle and agile methodologies
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
• Strong service mindset with focus on delivering business value
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Commitment to quality and continuous improvement
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective written and verbal communication abilities
  
  

Desired

• Financial services industry experience preferred but not required
• React, Angular NG
• Playwright
• Familiarity with meeting WCAG accessibility on web user interfaces
• AWS EKS, Lambda, RDS with PostgreSQL, AMQP with RabbitMQ, VPC Endpoints, Redis
• Terraform
• Dynatrace
• Configuring and managing load balancers or API gateways
• Integration with Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems