Principal Software Engineer

Federal Reserve System•St. Louis, MO

10d

About The Position

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, FedNowSM, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff. The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow Service. This service enables financial institutions to provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time, any day, and have full access to those funds within seconds. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of this mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States. Top level technical expert in one or more highly specialized areas of applications systems analysis and programming. Responsible for software design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation. Has full technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis and development. Provides technical leadership on complex projects. Interacts with internal project teams and work groups regularly. Level of work required is considered highly advanced and staff must be able to work under minimal supervision. This job does not have any direct reports. You have an appetite to learn, and a passion for technology, innovation, and developing new skills on evolving technologies. Position Contributions- Top level technical expert in one or more highly specialized areas of applications systems analysis and programming. Responsible for software design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation. Has full technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis and development. Provides technical leadership on complex projects. Interacts with internal project teams and work groups regularly. Level of work required is considered highly advanced and staff must be able to work under minimal supervision. This job does not have any direct reports. You have an appetite to learn, and a passion for technology, innovation, and developing new skills on evolving technologies.

Requirements

8+ years of Java Development
4+ years working with AWS cloud-based platforms in an enterprise environment.
Demonstrated experience engineering software with cloud-first architectures
10+ years software engineering experience in a team-based environment
Experience with building and deploying solutions in Cloud
Experience with Serverless architecture for building software solutions in Cloud
Experience with CI/CD build tools, and DevOps processes
Experience developing high performance, high volume, highly available (24/7/365) environments
Experience with Agile software engineering (Scrum, Kanban, Lean etc)
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Logistics
Deep expertise in Java and proficient knowledge of programming languages (JavaScript, XML, JSON, HTML, CSS etc. Python a bonus)
Proficient knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Proficient knowledge of database development (SQL, Oracle, DB2)
Ideally, you’ll have experience with AWS services, and integrating them into an application
Ideally you’ll have experience with leading edge Cloud technologies, such as Kafka, in-memory and NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, memcache etc).
Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities
Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication abilities
Proficient knowledge of cloud security for application development and delivery
Advanced knowledge of object-oriented programming
Ideally, Infrastructure as Code (IAC); Terraform

Nice To Haves

Experience with API Development and consumption and microservices architecture
Experience with agile development methodology
Knowledge of technology project and secure coding standards
Strong interpersonal, teamwork and negotiation skills
Strong customer service skills
Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
Familiarity with usability techniques and best practices
Infrastructure as Code (IAC); Terraform

Responsibilities

Serves as a Principal Software Engineer: to design, develop and implement new complex solutions in accordance with FedNow and Fed Standards
Develops software solutions in Java, Spring, Terraform, NoSQL and RDS in the Cloud
Develop end to end Infrastructure-as-Code solutions in Cloud
Provides input into strategic and tactical planning of software solutions and software development lifecycle changes
In addition to being able to engineer across numerous areas of technology, you’ll serve as subject matter expert in one or more areas
Trains and consults cross functionally within the organization on troubleshooting/resolving highly complex and/or highly time critical problems
Collaborates with analysts as part of an integrated Agile team to define user requirements and conduct design review for the development of complex and innovative cloud applications using modern internet-scale technologies and Serverless architecture in Cloud
Demonstrates skill dexterity; seeking to continuously adapt and employ new technical skills alongside proven staples
Ensures that the quality of software developed, maintained and enhanced in-house and installed into production is sufficient to prevent the occurrence of catastrophic defects that cause the customer significant problems, missed deadlines, or interruption to the production environment
Ensure compliance with Fed policies, procedures and standards
Provides primary or backup production support for applications and components, including but not limited to timely resolution to production problems and processing issues