Senior Software Engineer

Since 1992, Kingland has been a leading provider of enterprise software products, helping clients solve complex data, risk, and regulatory compliance challenges through innovative problem solving. Our guiding purpose is to deliver confidence that makes the world work better. Our software supports this purpose by creating predictability, consistency, and trust in our business. Guided by this purpose and our values of authenticity, creativity, excellence, and ownership, we help clients use data to confidently manage risk and comply with regulations.

We believe every employee plays an important role in our business and contributes to our success and growth. We seek individuals with unique skill sets and a desire to work on mission-critical programs. Our hybrid work program offers opportunities for in-person connection at our US offices in Ames, Iowa;
Clear Lake, Iowa; and Fort Myers, Florida, while giving team members flexibility to support their individual work-life balance.

Banks, auditors, and other financial institutions rely on Kingland's platform to manage the entity data behind their risk and compliance decisions. You’ll work primarily in Java and Spring on backend services that use PostgreSQL, Open Search, caching, and AWS messaging to process complex data.

As a software engineer at Kingland, you'll take ownership of scoped features and reliability and performance improvements, from requirements through production deployment. Working with an experienced team, you'll improve the correctness and efficiency of data processing, strengthen automated tests, preserve API compatibility, and improve the tools used to diagnose and recover from problems. You'll also contribute to design decisions that influence technical direction.

The role includes occasional frontend contributions; experience with Angular or Type Script is helpful.

• Build and maintain secure, testable Java/Spring services within the existing architecture, and raise opportunities to improve shared patterns
• Preserve correct behavior across APIs and asynchronous processing, including edge cases, concurrent updates, and transaction boundaries
• Write automated unit and integration tests whose assertions verify the intended behavior
• Improve structured logging, metrics, alarms, and runbooks to detect problems earlier and make diagnosis and recovery more effective
• Investigate performance issues with the team and measure the effect of changes to queries, caching, or batching using representative data
• Collaborate with teammates, product owners, and client-facing teams in two-week sprints, from requirements review through implementation, testing, and deployment

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or Computer Engineering
• A minimum of 5 years of professional software development experience
• Backend development experience in Java with Spring or Spring Boot, or strong experience in another backend language such as Go or C# and willingness to work primarily in Java and Spring.
• Regular use of automated testing, including edge cases and failure behavior, with attention to reliable execution in CI.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices and responsible handling of sensitive data
• Ability to reason about data changes, failure paths, and concurrent requests, and design tests that verify the intended behavior
• Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining technical tradeoffs and incorporating review feedback.

• PostgreSQL queries and indexes, hierarchical or bulk datasets, Redis caching, or search indexing with Open Search/Elasticsearch.
• Asynchronous processing: message queues, retry/backoff, duplicate-safe processing, ordering, dead-letter handling, or transaction-aware dispatch.
• AWS services, Terraform, Git Lab CI/CD, Gradle, MyBatis, or Flyway.
• Performance/load testing and operational diagnostics using logs, correlation IDs, metrics, alarms, and runbooks.
• Angular/Type Script or another modern frontend framework; safe incremental framework and library upgrades.
• Banking, financial services, audit, or another regulated domain.

Kingland has a suite of world class benefits and perks. We understand that each team member is unique, so we offer generous and flexible health and welfare, wellness, lifestyle, and total rewards benefits that are carefully picked and well designed. We are…