Federal Reserve Financial Services Advanced Software Engineer

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via Fed Line® Solutions, Fedwire® Funds and Securities, the National Settlement Service (NSS), Fed Cash®1, FedACH®, Check Services, and the Fed Now® Service. FRFS operates as a fully integrated organization with groups dedicated to customer experience, operations, technology, product and customer/industry management, enterprise services, payments system improvement, and one focused on the ongoing growth and development of the Fed Now instant payment service.

Our strategy defines our future direction, seeking to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of FRFS customers across the United States. Through our Enterprise structure, we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility, seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience, and work to create career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

The FRFS Enterprise operates with a customer-first mindset, comprised of team members seeking to do the best work of their careers in pursuit of our important central bank mission.

The Bank believes in flexibility to balance the demands of work and life while also recognizing the necessity of connecting and collaborating with our colleagues in person. Onsite work is an essential function of this position, and you are required to be onsite according to the schedule set by your management.

FRFS teams are represented in multiple districts:
Preferred locations Atlanta, Dallas and Minneapolis.

Software Engineers use an analytical, engineering-focused approach and knowledges of programming languages to design, develop, configure, test, maintain and support software applications. This role requires an advanced understanding of software development and/or test automation principles. Has specialized depth and/or substantial breadth of expertise in discipline. Often relied on to provide thought leadership regarding industry experience and knowledge.

Performs work independently. Coaches, delegates, and reviews work of less experienced staff, as well as serves as a knowledge resource. May serve as a team lead. Software Engineer who excels at understanding complex problems and working with the systems, teams and tools needed to provide a great experience to our customers.

• Apply the principles of software engineering to the design, implementation, configuration, and optimization of solutions to support applications, databases, test automation tools, Dev Ops processes, and Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products.
• Demonstrate technical skill in at least two programming general purpose language (JAVA, C#, Python, JSF (Prime Faces), Angular (latest versions), Type Script, JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, CSS3, SQL, or proprietary vendor language)
• Expertise in Java programming (Java 8 or higher) and the Spring ecosystem, including Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Integration and Spring Security preferred.
• Experience with NgRx, RxJS, containerization (Open Shift, Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus. Web Sphere Application Server, Liberty and MQ knowledge is beneficial.
• Experience in frontend application security, including token, headers and Policy.
• Perform peer reviews using software engineering principles, patterns, and development guidelines.
• Partner with customers in the development of innovative solutions
• Analyze business and technical requirements and implement technical solutions to meet them.
• Provide on-call support, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, incident management, and service request management for supported products and environments
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