Senior Java Developer

Location

4224 Ridge Lea Road, Amherst New York

The Senior Java Developer executes on and influences the development, implementation, assessment, and support of one or more environments, applications, or platforms.

• Independently develops clean, maintainable, testable code for work assigned; performs code reviews for all levels of engineer.
• Designs solutions for the overall health, performance, and availability and actively works resolution of system and client experience impacts for one or more environments, applications, or platforms.
• Strong technical expert on the team; assigns work, mentors, and trains junior engineers.
• Advocates for new technology and improvements.
• Applies, and prepares to ensure, proper security standards for code development.
• Assists in the development of strategies for the full software development life-cycle of new and emerging technologies and make recommendations regarding selected technologies and demonstrates the viability.
• Creates technical documentation, specifications, and project artifacts for developing code.
• Identifies and develops potential standards and best practices.
• Proposes high-level application platform architectural guidelines.
• Formulates and designs technical solutions to meet business needs.
• Performs other duties as assigned; duties, responsibilities and/or activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
• Complies with all Key Bank policies and procedures, including without limitation, acting professionally at all times, conducting business ethically, avoiding conflicts of interest, and acting in the best interests of Key's clients and Key.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience (preferred)

Required Skillset (5+ years of relevant experience)

Candidates must demonstrate hands‑on experience and proficiency in the following areas:

• Java - Strong object-oriented programming skills and backend development experience.
• React - Building dynamic, responsive front-end applications using modern JavaScript frameworks.
• HTML/CSS - Developing accessible, standards-compliant, and visually appealing user interfaces.
• Git - Proficient in version control workflows, including branching, merging, and pull requests.
• RESTful APIs - Designing, consuming, and integrating RESTful web services for scalable application development.

Experience or familiarity with the following technologies is a plus:

• CI/CD - Exposure to automated build, test, and deployment pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Git Labs.
• SQL - Writing and optimizing queries for relational databases such as SQL Server.

• Working Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Extensive Experience with quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
• Extensive Experience with approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Extensive Experience with the value of innovation; ability to create and develop new ideas for answers to work‑related problems that improve the performance of the organization.
• Working Knowledge of the importance of inter‑team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.
• Extensive Experience with the decision‑making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Working Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
• Working Knowledge of emerging technologies; ability to design, apply and evaluate new information technologies for business…