Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer

Vice President, Full Stack Engineer

We're seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President, Full Stack Engineer to join our Collateral ONE team in Liquidity and Financing platform in Global Markets. This role is in Pittsburgh, PA.

Role summary

· Leverage AI tools such as Wind Surf to build and maintain microservices and APIs using Java 17 and Spring Boot 3.5 with Spring Security; contribute to UI features with Angular on the front end as needed.

· Own features end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, support.

· Collaborate across engineering, product, and Dev Ops to ship secure, reliable, and scalable software.

In this role, you'll make an impact in the following ways:

· Use AI tools to accelerate development.

· Build REST microservices and messaging integrations (Kafka, MQ).

· Develop JPA/Hibernate data layers and work with Oracle.

· Implement Spring Security and enforce secure coding.

· Ensure observability with structured logging, metrics, dashboards, and Splunk.

· Maintain Git Lab CI/CD with quality gates and vulnerability scanning.

· Containerize and deploy services; monitor performance and cost.

· Write unit/integration tests and maintain strong automated coverage.

· Build Angular UI features with responsive, secure, well-tested components.

· Participate in code reviews, architecture, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Education requirement:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

- Advanced degree preferred.

Industry

Experience:

5 years, preferred in finance industry.

Must-have technical skills

· Java 17 and Spring Boot 3.5 (Web, Data/JPA/Hibernate, Security).

· Oracle SQL, schema design, transactions, indexing, stored procedures, and JPA/Hibernate performance tuning.

· AI tools (Cursor, Windsurf) into development workflows to accelerate coding, reviews, and planning.

· Maven/Gradle, Git/Git Lab, CI/CD pipeline creation, artifact management, environment promotion, and Sonar Qube configuration/remediation.

· Able to deliver front-end features and API integrations; familiar with accessibility, responsive design, and basic state management.

· Angular, Type Script, component architecture, routing, forms, and RxJS; experience with NgRx or similar state tools.

· Front-end observability: HTTP interceptors, structured logging, error handling, and correlating logs with backend telemetry.

· DOM sanitization, XSS/CSRF protection, secure session handling, CSP, and OAuth/OIDC integration.

· JUnit/Mockito, Jasmine/Karma, integration testing (e.g., Testcontainers), and modern UI testing frameworks (Jest/Testing Library/Cypress).

· Containerizing and deploying cloud-based services; monitoring performance, reliability, and cost.

Preferred technical skills

· Microservices architecture: service boundaries, API versioning, fault tolerance, resiliency patterns

· Kafka (topics, partitions, consumer groups, exactly-once/at-least-once semantics), IBM MQ (queues, message formats)

· Spring Security (RBAC, method-level security), input validation, OWASP Top 10, TLS, secrets management

· AG Grid / AG Charts / Highcharts: configuring column definitions, sorting/filtering, cell renderers/editors, virtualization, performance tuning, and custom themes; integrating with Angular services and state management.

· Proficiency in semantic HTML5 and SCSS/CSS, including Flexbox (and responsive layouts), to build accessible, maintainable UI components from design specs.

· Node.js/npm, build optimization (Angular CLI, build budgets, lazy loading, OnPush change detection), bundle analysis, and A11y conformance (WCAG)

· Jasmine/Karma or Jest for unit tests;
Testing Library/Cypress for component and end-to-end tests; test doubles/mocks; integrating front-end tests into CI/CD pipelines

· Observability:
Micrometer metrics, Prometheus, Grafana dashboards/alerts; log correlation and search in Splunk; troubleshooting in production using logs, metrics, and traces