Staff Java Backend Engineer - Cloud & Microservices

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.; North Dakota; Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Health insurance

Commuter benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

FINRA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize backend services in Java/Spring Boot. You will build scalable microservices and RESTful APIs, work with AWS components (ECS, Lambda, Step Functions), and contribute to robust CI/CD practices.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, security, and collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high-quality software in a hybrid work environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline with 5+ years of experience.
• System design experience.
• Cloud technologies proficiency.
• Performance tuning and optimization.
• DevOps and CI/CD experience.
• Test automation and unit testing.
• Software security practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop backend services using Java/Spring Boot and RESTful APIs.
• Design and maintain scalable microservices.
• Build event-driven workflows with AWS services.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployments.
• Improve system performance and reliability.
• Create technical documentation for the team.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

AWS

CI/CD

Data modeling

Distributed systems

Backend

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ECS

Lambda

Step Functions

RDS

Job description

FINRA is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, implement, and optimize backend services in Java/Spring Boot. You will build scalable microservices and RESTful APIs, work with AWS components (ECS, Lambda, Step Functions), and contribute to robust CI/CD practices.

The role emphasizes performance tuning, security, and collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high-quality software in a hybrid work environment.