Senior Java Engineer, App Development

Job Description

This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in office 2-3 days a week(10-12 days a month ) at the following office location: St. Petersburg, FL.

Job Summary:
As part of the Private Client Group technology team, this Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain on premise applications. Being a Fortune 500 company; this position provides unparalleled job security, along with the opportunity to learn from experienced developers in a fun and encouraging environment. The core team is based out of our headquarters in St. Petersburg, FL (Hybrid).
The perfect candidate is goal & detail oriented and is a passionate developer who is eager to grow and learn. This candidate also exhibits excellent English written and oral communication skills allowing them to clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message. 
 
Responsibilities:

• Support and build the technical solution for a scalable and highly available environment. 

• Design, Engineer and build networking, security, logging, monitoring and persistent storage.

• Proactively plan capacity monitoring and scaling of platforms and applications – analyzing technical areas for improvement.

• Participates in software system programming, validation, deployment, and documentation.

• Responsible for understanding deeply the end to end data requirements, application and service requirements and designing end to end solutions.

• Participate in the Agile or Waterfall development lifecycle, including daily stand-ups and biweekly sprint planning.

• Communicate across departments within the company and with business users to solve problems.

• Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.

• Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills:

• Proficiency in Java programming

• Proficiency in Oracle SQL

• Java, J2EE development with working knowledge of Spring and ORM (Hibernate preferred), Spring Boot, cache implementations.

• Experience with Monitoring / APM tools (Datadog, Dynatrace, etc.), and logging tools such as Splunk.

• Good knowledge of DevOps & collaboration tools: Jenkins, GIT, TFS, Sonar. 

• Ability to:

• Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions.

• Clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

• Use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; recommend or take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.

• Demonstrate a satisfactory level of technical and professional skills or knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise.

• Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.

• Make internal and external clients and their needs a primary focus of action; develop and sustain productive client relationships.

• Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

 

Education

Bachelor’s: Computer and Information Science (Required), Bachelor’s: Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s: Data Science

Work Experience

General Experience - 3 to 6 years

Certifications

Travel

Less than 25%

Workstyle

Hybrid

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. 

We expect our associates at all levels to:
•  Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
•  Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
•  Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
•  Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
•  Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we hon