Lead Java Software Engineer; Individual Contributor

Working independently, the Lead Software Engineer owns development of software products and works on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle and mentors other Software Engineers.

Seasoned individual contributor with deep expertise in Java to design, develop, and maintain complex, enterprise-grade applications on AWS through clean, modular, and performant code.

Essential Job Functions:

Designs and develops industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives

Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results

Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals

Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management

Collaboration

Coaches and trains less experienced colleagues in techniques, processes, and responsibilities

Integrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative into team goals and decisions

Partners within and across teams to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities

Openly shares progress and priorities with key stakeholders, communicating complex or technical information at the right level.

Demonstration of FINRA’s values.

Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Demonstration of FINRA’s values.

Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Essential Technical

Skills:

Backend Development:
Strong experience in backend development across server-side technologies and architectures. Ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance systems from API layer to data persistence, with deep understanding of modern frameworks (Spring Boot), RESTful and Graph

QL APIs, microservices architectures, event-driven architectures, and database design patterns.

Data Storage Technologies:
Strong experience with modern data storage solutions including relational databases (Example: Postgre

SQL, MySQL), No

SQL systems (Example: Mongo

DB, Cassandra), and graph databases (Example: Neo4j, Amazon Neptune), with expertise in data modeling approaches and design patterns for diverse data persistence requirements.

System Design & Architecture:
System Design & Architecture:
Strong system design experience with ability to architect scalable, enterprise-grade document and metadata ingestion, processing, and persistence at scale

DevOps &

Infrastructure: Assist with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines while architecting and developing cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services, including Lambda, Step functions, SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, Fargate, Aurora, fostering a strong Dev Ops culture within the team.

Education/Experience Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.

Strong system design experience

Strong experience in object-oriented development

Strong experience with cloud technologies

Strong experience in data storage technologies

Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization

Strong experience in Dev Ops and CICD technologies

Strong experience test automation and unit testing

Strong experience software security

Working Conditions:

Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements.

Occasional travel and extended hours may be required.

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