Principal Software Engineer - Java​/Boot​/AWS​/Junit

Position: Principal Software Engineer - Java/Spring Boot/AWS/Junit
Company Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via Fed Line Solutions, FedNowSM, Fedwire, National Settlement Service (NSS), Fed Cash, FedACH (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the Fed Now Service. This service enables financial institutions to provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of this mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States.

Top level technical expert in one or more highly specialized areas of applications systems analysis and programming. Responsible for software design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation. Has full technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis and development. Provides technical leadership on complex projects. Interacts with internal project teams and work groups regularly. Level of work required is considered highly advanced and staff must be able to work under minimal supervision.

This job does not have any direct reports. You have an appetite to learn, and a passion for technology, innovation, and developing new skills on evolving technologies.

What will be expected of you-Serves as a Principal Software Engineer: to design, develop and implement new complex solutions in accordance with Fed Now and Fed Standards Ensures that the quality of software developed, maintained and enhanced in-house and installed into production is sufficient to prevent the occurrence of catastrophic defects that cause the customer significant problems, missed deadlines, or interruption to the production environment

Develops software solutions in Java, Spring, Terraform, No

SQL and RDS in the Cloud Develop end to end Infrastructure-as-Code solutions in Cloud Provides input into strategic and tactical planning of software solutions and software development lifecycle changes

In addition to being able to engineer across numerous areas of technology, you’ll serve as subject matter expert in one or more areas

Trains and consults cross functionally within the organization on troubleshooting/resolving highly complex and/or highly time critical problems

Demonstrates skill dexterity; seeking to continuously adapt and employ new technical skills alongside proven staples

Ensure compliance with Fed policies, procedures and standards

Logistics& Requirements-Deep expertise in Java and proficient knowledge of programming languages (JavaScript, XML, JSON, HTML, CSS etc. Python a bonus).

Experience with modern Java features like generics, streams and lambdas.

Experience using JUnit 5+ to write integration and unit tests and use its lifecycle interfaces and annotations to handle related setup and teardown tasks. Understanding of how to use JUnit's extension and lifecycle annotations and interfaces to create tools that enhance its default functionality and monitor test plan execution results.

Experience with Apache Maven or Gradle to handle tasks such as compilation, dependency management, testing, packaging and deployment. Knowledge of Apache Maven's build life cycles phases, experience with custom plugin development and how to map a custom plugin's goals to Maven lifecycle phases

Proficient in Mockito and AssertJ as well as integration testing with er standing of object-oriented design principles (ex: SOLID) to create maintainable, extensible code and knowledge of design patterns, inheritance hierarchies, polymorphism, composition over inheritance, effective interface design, encapsulation and immutability.

Comprehensive knowledge of Spring Boot's core fundamentals, including auto-configuration, starter dependencies, and its opinionated approach to application setup that eliminates much of the boilerplate configuration required in traditional Spring applications. Understanding of dependency injection, the IoC container, bean lifecycle management as well as proficiency in using annotations like @Component, @Service, @Repository, and erience with AWS services, and integrating them into an application

Expertise in building RESTful APIs with Spring Boot, including knowledge of @Rest Controller, @Request Mapping, request/response handling, content negotiation, and exception handling.

Understand data access patterns using Spring Data JPA, including repository…