Principal Software Engineer

Dtcc - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Senior

Dallas, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Software Engineering role at DTCC involves creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications and software solutions. This position requires collaboration with business partners and external clients to define requirements and implement solutions, ensuring that applications meet performance, privacy, and security standards. The role emphasizes technical leadership in software development processes, focusing on reliability, maintainability, and scalability of applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical processes and designs considering reliability, data integrity, maintainability, reuse, extensibility, usability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure partners to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments.
• Define scalability and performance criteria for assigned applications.
• Ensure applications meet performance, privacy, and security requirements.
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues.
• Verify test plans to ensure compliance with performance and security requirements.
• Support business and technical presentations related to technology platforms and business solutions.
• Mitigate risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls.
• Develop solutions that balance cost and delivery while meeting business requirements.
• Implement technology-specific best practices consistent with corporate standards.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of product strategy and project deliverables.
• Manage the software development process.
• Drive new technical and business process improvements.
• Estimate total costs of modules/projects covering both hours and expense.
• Research and evaluate specific technologies and applications, contributing to solution design.
• Construct application architecture encompassing end-to-end designs.
• Spot key errors and demonstrate strong ethical behavior.

Requirements

• 10+ years of active development experience/expertise in Java/J2EE based applications.
• Proven ability with Hibernate, Spring, Spring MVC.
• Strong frontend experience with Angular.
• Experience using NodeJS and NPM.
• Experience in web-based UI development and SPA development.
• 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.
• Experience with CI/CD technologies like GIT, Jenkins, JoCoCo, and Maven.
• Strong database and PL/SQL skills (Postgres preferred).
• Familiarity with Agile development methodology.

Nice-to-haves

• Serves as a trusted coach or mentor within the organization.
• Communicates openly, keeping everyone across the organization informed.

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.