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Software Developer Senior

Federal Reserve Board
Cleveland, OH Full Time
POSTED ON 6/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/5/2026
Company
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's mission is to foster the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the nation's monetary, financial, and payment systems while representing the Fourth District perspectives.

As part of the nation's central bank, we are a team of mission-driven professionals who are committed to serving with excellence. Our core values are: Build Trust Every Day, Own Our Actions, Collaborate with Intention, and Be Open to Change.

For twenty-six years in a row, we've been named "One of Northeast Ohio's Best Places to Work" by North Coast 99. This prestigious award honors organizations with outstanding employment practices, including compensation, benefits, training, recruitment, retention, community services, and employee communications.

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We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining software solutions, taking ownership of critical projects, and mentoring other developers. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to build high-quality products, ensuring high performance, scalability, and security.

Essential Accountabilities:
  • Code, debug, test, deploy, support and document moderately to highly complex application software.
  • Analyze moderately to highly complex software and recommend and implement solutions.
  • Design, prototype, and develop moderately to highly complex software applications.
  • Incorporate security into solutions.
  • Ensure secure coding, contingency, and deployment methodologies are in place upon moderately to highly complex software implementation.
  • Works independently; receives minimal guidance.

Required Skills:
  • Moderately to highly complex analytical skills.
  • Ability to perform moderate to highly complex independent research.
  • Ability to work in a Team environment and collaborate well with different groups.
  • Experience with Agile development methodologies.
  • Proficient in creating technical documentation.
  • Strong understanding of Java/JEE concepts, object-oriented design, and development.
  • Advanced technical skills in Java, Spring and Angular.
  • API development and best practices.
  • Experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions.
  • Experience in AWS Services such as ECS, Fargate, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS.
  • Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code.
  • Exposure and minimal experience in building iOS and Android apps
  • Exposure and minimal experience developing native and hybrid mobile apps using JAVA / Kotlin (Android) and Swift / Objective-C (iOS).

Education and Experience
  • Associates degree and 7 years of related work experience OR
  • Bachelor's degree and 5 years of related work experience OR
  • Master's degree and 3 years of related work experience

Location: Cleveland, OH, Columbus, OH, Cincinnati, OH, or Pittsburgh, PA

The expected starting salary range for the Software Developer Senior is between $111,400 and $153,100 annually. Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant's background, experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.

The Cleveland Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here: ;/b>

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time.

Reasonable Accommodation Statement - The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to

Bank's Ethics Rules and Drug Testing:

As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Bank's ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A "depository institution" means a bank, a trust company, or any institution that accepts deposits, including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition, employees (and their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds, unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy, as stated in the prospectus, of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting.

In addition, as a condition of employment, candidates must undergo a background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana, prior to hire and for certain safety sensitive positions during employment.

Always verify and apply to jobs on Federal Reserve System Careers or through verified Federal Reserve Bank social media channels

Full Time / Part Time
Full time

Regular / Temporary
Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes

Job Category
Information Technology Family Group

Work Shift
First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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