Senior Java Engineer

Working independently, the Senior Java Engineer owns development of software products and works on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle and mentors other Software Engineers. Reports directly to a Director or Senior Director.

Seasoned individual contributor with deep expertise in Java to design, develop, and maintain complex, enterprise-grade applications on AWS through clean, modular, and performant code; proficiency in Python preferred.

Essential Job Functions:

• Designs and develops industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives

• Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results

• Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals

• Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management

Collaboration

• Coaches and trains less experienced colleagues in techniques, processes, and responsibilities

• Integrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative into team goals and decisions

• Partners within and across teams to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities

• Openly shares progress and priorities with key stakeholders, communicating complex or technical information at the right level

• Demonstration of FINRA’s values

• Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity

• Demonstration of FINRA’s values

• Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity

Essential Technical Skills:

Backend Development: Strong experience in backend development across server-side technologies and architectures. Ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance systems from API layer to data persistence, with deep understanding of modern frameworks (Spring Boot), RESTful and GraphQL APIs, microservices architectures, event-driven architectures, and database design patterns.

Data Storage Technologies: Strong experience with modern data storage solutions including relational databases (Example: PostgreSQL, MySQL), NoSQL systems (Example: MongoDB, Cassandra), and graph databases (Example: Neo4j, Amazon Neptune), with expertise in data modeling approaches and design patterns for diverse data persistence requirements.

System Design & Architecture: System Design & Architecture: Strong system design experience with ability to architect scalable, enterprise-grade document and metadata ingestion, processing, and persistence at scale

DevOps & Infrastructure: Assist with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines while architecting and developing cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services, including Lambda, Step functions, SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, Fargate, Aurora, fostering a strong DevOps culture within the team.

Education/Experience Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience

• Strong system design experience

• Strong experience in object-oriented development

• Strong experience with cloud technologies

• Strong experience in data storage technologies

• Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization

• Strong experience in DevOps and CI\CD technologies

• Strong experience test automation and unit testing

• Strong experience software security

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements

• Occasional travel and extended hours may be required

For work that is performed in CO, FL, TX, IL, PA, MA, MD, VA, Washington, DC, NY and NJ, please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the position. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and market considerations. 

CO/FL/TX: Minimum Sa