Senior Software Developer

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is part of the nation’s central bank, and we’ve provided many opportunities for professional growth during our history.

For twenty-six years in a row, we’ve been named "One of Northeast Ohio’s Best Places to Work" by North Coast 99. This prestigious award honors organizations with outstanding employment practices, including compensation, benefits, training, recruitment, retention, community services, and employee communications.

Our People Make the Difference! The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is seeking innovative thinkers with vision to build the framework that will carry the Bank into the future.

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• Code, debug, test, deploy, support and document moderately to highly complex application software.
• Analyze moderately to highly complex software and recommend and implement solutions.
• Design, prototype, and develop moderately to highly complex software applications.
• Incorporate security and other relevant bank and system controls into solutions.
• Adhere to bank and system software development methodologies and standards.
• Comply with SAFR, DLP, Privacy and audit requirements.
• Ensure secure coding, contingency, and deployment methodologies are in place upon moderately to highly complex software implementation.
• Works independently; receives minimal guidance.

• Associates degree and 7 years of related work experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of related work experience OR
• Master’s degree and 3 years of related work experience

• Moderately to highly complex analytical skills.
• Ability to perform moderate to highly complex independent research.
• Ability to work in a Team environment and collaborate well with different groups.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies.
• Proficient in creating technical documentation.
• Strong understanding of Java/JEE concepts, object-oriented design, and development.
• Advanced technical skills in Java, Spring and Angular.
• API development and best practices.
• Experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud‑based solutions.
• Experience in AWS Services such as ECS, Fargate, RDS, Lambda, S3, SQS.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code.

• Some level of exposure / experience in iOS development is a plus.
• Experience with Gitlab pipelines.

Cleveland, OH, Columbus, OH, Cincinnati, OH, or Pittsburgh, PA

The expected starting salary range for this position is between $108,500 and $149,200 annually. Final salary and offer will be determined by the applicant’s background, experience, skills, internal equity, and market data.

The Cleveland Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here.

This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time.

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