Software Engineering Senior Associate

DTCC; Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

DTCC in Tampa, FL is seeking an experienced Java Full Stack Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable applications. You will work across backend and frontend, implementing REST APIs, data-driven features, and cloud-native solutions in a collaborative, agile environment.

You will partner with analysts, peers, and operations to ensure reliability, performance, and security, while contributing to CI/CD pipelines, testing, and deployment strategies in a hybrid onsite/remote model.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical expert on one or more applications used by DTCC.
• Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements.
• Partner with Infrastructure to identify hosting environments.
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues.
• Research and evaluate technical solutions aligned with DTCC standards.

Skills

Java Full Stack

REST APIs

Kafka

SQL / data modeling

Object-oriented design

CI/CD practices

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Maven/Jenkins

Snowflake

Job description

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well‑being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well‑being.

DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re‑engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in‑depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions. The Software Engineering role specializes in planning, documenting technical requirements, designing, developing, and testing all software systems and applications for the firm. Works closely with architects, product managers, project management, and end‑users in the development and enhancement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that solve complex business problems.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as a technical expert on one or more applications utilized by DTCC
• Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements
• Partner with Infrastructure to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues
• Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards
• Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
• Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs
• Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs, and participate in the construction and functional testing
• Support development teams, testing, troubleshooting, and production support
• Create applications and construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non‑functional requirements
• Work with peers to mature ways of working, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• 8+ years of hands‑on experience in Java Full Stack development, including Spring Boot (backend) and Angular or React (frontend)
• Strong experience designing and developing REST APIs and implementing API Gateway patterns
• Hands‑on experience with event‑driven architectures using messaging platforms such as Kafka
• Proficiency in SQL and relational database concepts, including data modeling and query optimization
• Strong understanding of object‑oriented design patterns and programming techniques
• Experience with cloud‑native application development, including containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes / OpenShift
• Familiarity with build, CI/CD, observability, and deployment tools - Maven, Jenkins
• Experience working with large modular codebases and monorepos for building scalable applications
• Hands‑on experience with packaging and deploying backend applications in containerized environments
• Experience with troubleshooting and resolving complex production incidents in distributed systems
• Proficient communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams We?? etc
• Experience with Snowflake platform and data engineering conce