Senior Java Engineer (Remote)

First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead development teams and design technical solutions. Candidates should have strong back-end development experience, particularly with Java and microservices. Responsibilities include overseeing software maintenance and ensuring system reliability. A Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience in software development is required. This remote position may involve working with teams across different states.

Benefits

Competitive benefits program

Qualifications

• 4 years of experience in software application development and maintenance.
• 8 years of experience in software application development and maintenance if no degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead SCRUM Agile development teams.
• Design and develop technical solutions.
• Oversee application maintenance for mission-critical systems.
• Coordinate troubleshooting of application errors.
• Drive best practices and adhere to standards.

Skills

Back-end microservices development

Java 11+

Standard Design Patterns

Object-Oriented Design/Analysis

Spring and Spring Boot

REST and APIs

Unit Testing and Mocking

Git

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Software Development

High School Diploma or GED with 8 years experience

Tools

Postman

Docker

Kubernetes

Scrum

Job description

Overview

This is a remote role that may only be hired in the following location(s): AZ, FL, GA, NC and TX.

We have a highly engaged team of engineers and are driving a new custom developed platform and implementing automated testing on all newly developed projects. Come join us as part of this exciting space where you can dig in the details with other developers and the business, as well as have fun sharpening your technical skills and designing solutions for problems that don’t yet have answers. We are looking for people who have a passion for development and leading teams.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned software developer with a history of operating in large enterprise environment. Banking experience is preferred, but not necessary. This individual would have tangible examples of how they have led development teams to successful deployments, coached and mentored junior developers, and have contributed to enterprise level design of a system(s). They will also be able to clearly communicate and express complex ideas not only with development team members, but also business product owners, while establishing a working relationship built on trust through delivery.

Responsibilities

The Sr Software Engineer will be responsible for all software aspects within the team including research, design, technology insertion, development, testing, and support.

• Lead SCRUM Agile development teams
• Partner with architects and solution engineers to design and develop technical solutions that meet user needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Oversee proactive maintenance on our existing Iaas /SaaS and on-premises applications within the Digital, Cards, Risk, and Merchant Services to ensure our mission critical systems remain stable, are able to scale as our business grows, and remain fit-for-purpose.
• Coordinate and assist with troubleshooting of code defects, data errors and configuration problems to determine the origin of application errors.
• Know how to support Business critical/ complex applications.
• Exercises Judgement within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Drive departmental best practices, guidelines implementation and adhere to standards.
• Show expertise in designing and developing real-time integrations, file-based integrations, and be able to optimize the use of database level processing.
• Demonstrate empathy with developers and poses an innate desire to create a superlative developer experience down to the last detail.
• Have a deep love of building elegant, maintainable, well-documented, secure code.
• Always work to improve oneself and constructively support the team around them.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree and 4 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance OR High School Diploma or GED and 8 years of experience in Software application development and maintenance

Preferred Qualifications

• 6+ years of back-end microservices focused development experience
• Strong knowledge and experience with Java 11+
• Strong knowledge and experience with Standard Design Patterns such as Factories, Command, Facade, Adapter, and more
• Strong knowledge and experience with OOD/OOA
• Strong knowledge and experience with Spring and Spring Boot frameworks
• Strong knowledge and experience with REST and APIs
• Strong knowledge and experience with Unit Test and Mocking frameworks
• Strong knowledge and experience with git
• Basic knowledge and experience with Postman
• Basic knowledge of messaging queues (Kafka), caching techniques and elastic search
• Basic knowledge and experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Basic knowledge and experience with Scrum and Agile
• Basic knowledge and experience with wikis

Preferred Experience

• Automation Testing
• React UI Development
• Gitlab Pipeline Development
• Experience leading development teams

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards; First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates.