Software Engineer: AWS, API delivery - Mobile platforms

About the position

Take a key role in the development of best-in-breed financial applications aimed at providing consumers leading-edge tools to maintain their financial life. Candidates primary work responsibility would be to create REST full Java APIs for rendering the data to front end. Please note that this position is based in an office-centric environment. The work schedule requires employees to be on-site four days per week, one day remote.

Responsibilities

• Work as a technical expert with product, analysts, programmers and other team members to develop technical solutions to complex business problems.
• Responsible for complex program design, coding, testing, debugging and documentation.
• Recommend improvements to existing software programs.
• Publishing builds through pipeline to deploy code to AWS.
• Instruct, direct and quality assure the work of other developers and analysts.
• Gather client requirements, analyze, design and create complex application solutions.
• Prepare detailed specifications from which complex programs will be written.
• Adhere to J2EE design principles.
• Brainstorming new features and ability to train the team on the same.
• Provide application support including complex problem research, analysis, resolution and on-call.
• Closely work with iOS and Android front end developers for designing API requirements.
• Co-ordinate with other core component teams to integrate REST APIs with backend core components.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and four to seven years of experience or equivalent education and software engineering training or experience.
• In-depth knowledge in information systems and ability to identify, apply, and implement IT best practices.
• Understanding of key business processes and competitive strategies related to the IT function.
• Ability to plan and manage projects and solve complex problems by applying best practices.
• Ability to provide direction and mentor less experienced teammates. Ability to interpret and convey complex, difficult, or sensitive information.

Nice-to-haves

• Core Java/Spring, AWS: 4+ years.
• Strong Java/J2EE skills with hands on experience in designing and developing REST based micro services in AWS (ECS Fargate, SQS, and S3).
• Working experience with Configuration management principles and tools, particularly GitLab, Maven, Gradle.
• Hands on experience on Continuous Integration and Delivery pipeline creation & maintenance.
• Experience with one or more Database from dev perspective (DB2, MySQL). PL/SQL queries.
• Micro Services architecture (Spring Boot and others).
• AWS environment: REST based micro services in AWS (EC2, SQS and S3), familiarity with ECS (EC2 Container Service), Elasticache, RDS.
• IaC (terraform), Docker/Containerization.
• Knowledge of Agile software processes including Scrum and Kanban.
• Good to have experience with monitoring solutions such as CloudWatch or ELK stack.
• Experience working in startup, financial industry is a plus.
• Any experience in delivery tools such as Postman, Swagger, SOAP UI.
• Bachelor of Engineering / Computer Science.
• Excellent communication skills.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment.
• Tax-preferred savings accounts.
• 401k plan.
• No less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during the first year of employment.
• 10 sick days (also prorated).
• Paid holidays.
• Defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan may be available.