Java Software Engineer Team Lead

Essential Job Functions:

• Designs and develops industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards reliability specifications and help achieve key strategic objectives

• Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results

• Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals

• Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends software engineering best practices and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management

• Helps identify gaps between system components and designs and delivers solutions

• Implements methods for managing and maintaining the organizations software development environments to ensure software engineers are equipped with the tools and resources necessary to create and validate builds

• Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results

• Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends software engineering best practices and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management

• Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals

Essential Technical Skills:

Backend Development:

• Experience in backend development across server-side technologies and architectures

• Ability to design and implement scalable high-performance systems from API layer to data persistence with deep understanding of modern frameworks (Spring Boot) RESTful and GraphQL APIs microservices architectures event-driven architectures and database design patterns.

Data Storage Technologies:

• Strong experience with modern data storage solutions including relational databases and NoSQL systems with expertise in data modeling approaches and design patterns for diverse data persistence requirements

• Experience with OpenSearch and NoSQL databases is highly preferred

System Design & Architecture:

• System Design & Architecture: system design experience with ability to architect scalable enterprise-grade document and metadata ingestion processing and persistence at scale

DevOps & Infrastructure:

• Assist with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines while architecting and developing cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services including Lambda Step functions SQS SNS S3 ECS Fargate Aurora fostering a strong DevOps culture within the team.

Collaboration:

• Coaches and trains less experienced colleagues in techniques processes and responsibilities

• Integrates the culture of intelligence integrity and initiative into team goals and decisions

• Partners within and across teams to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience or equivalent training and/or work experience.

• Strong system design experience

• Strong experience in object-oriented development

• Strong experience with cloud technologies

• Strong experience in data storage technologies

• Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization

• Strong experience in DevOps and CICD technologies

• Strong experience test automation and unit testing

• Strong experience software security

• Hybrid work environment with defined in-person presence requirements.

• Occasional travel and extended hours may be required.

For work that is performed in CO FL TX IL PA MA MD VA Washington DC NY and NJ please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the addition to location actual compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to the candidates skill set level of experience education and market considerations.

CO/FL/TX: Minimum Salary $114200 Maximum Salary $207200

IL/PA: Minimum Salary $125900 Maximum Salary $228000
MA/MD/VA/Washington DC: Minimum Salary $131200 Maximum Salary $238300

NY/NJ: Minimum Salary $131200 Maximum Salary $248700

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Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off 5 personal days and 9 sick days unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave jury duty leave bereavement leave voting and election official leave for federal state or local primary and general elections care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

*Based on full-time schedule

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