Backend Java Developer

About the position

At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve. The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. This includes research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth subject matter expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and/or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical expert on one or more applications utilized by DTCC.
• Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements.
• Partner with Infrastructure to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments.
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues.
• Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards.
• Align risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.
• Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs.
• Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs, and participate in the construction and functional testing.
• Support development teams, testing, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Create applications and construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non-functional requirements.
• Work with peers to mature ways of working, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Translate business requirements into software designs and implementations.
• Participate in thorough code reviews with a goal of illustrating quality engineering practices and to produce the highest quality code possible.
• Build high quality and scalable/performance applications.
• Understand requirements and translate them into specific Application and other EI tasks.
• Design frameworks that promote concepts of isolation, extensibility, and reusability.
• Support team in managing client expectations and resolving issues on time.
• Participate in agile ceremonies and engage with the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in technical discipline or related field
• 6+ years' experience in application development or system analysis
• Must have strong Angular skills with 2+ years of proven experience
• 6+ years of active development experience/expertise in Java/J2EE based applications with demonstrated ability in Hibernate, Spring, Spring MVC, REST API, PL/SQL
• Experience using NodeJS and NPM
• Experience in Web based UI development, Servlet/JSP, Angular frameworks
• Experience with CSS, HTML, JavaScript and similar UI frameworks (JQuery, React)
• Exposure to XML/XSD, JSON and similar data presentation components
• Familiarity with Microservices based architecture and distributed systems
• Ability to develop and work with REST APIs using Spring Boot framework
• Demonstrable experience in software development using CI/CD tools especially GIT, Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Jira
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift, including building, deploying, and managing containerized applications
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes-based orchestration, OpenShift pipelines and container lifecycle management
• Strong database and PL/SQL skills (Oracle preferred)
• Experience with containers platform like OpenShift; AWS experience is a plus
• Solid focus on software testing with Junit, Mockito, Jasmine, Karma
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being
• Flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee)