Who we are looking for
As a Lead Java Engineer at State Street you will be part of an exciting Cash and Payments organiztion where you will provide leadership and vision in building out current platforms as well as keeping focus on future platforms. In this role, you will establish best practices and be heavily involved in designing, developing and deploying microservices and UIs running on-prem as well as public cloud. You will serve as a technical subject matter expert providing hands-on guidance and mentorship to development teams as well as contributing to the evaluation, prototyping and selection of software solutions. Your leadership will promote that all implementation solutions support architecture objectives of availability, scalability, performance, security, maintainability, flexibility, portability, and reusability.
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What you will be responsible for
As Software Engineer you will
- Design and build new software and features for existing systems
- Uses strong knowledge of object-oriented programming and design patterns to design software that promotes efficiency, testability, and maintainability
- Provide detailed articulate technical designs explaining what and how application components are impacted for release changes
- Identify continuous improvements to the development process to aid productivity and increase quality
- Keeps pace with business trends, standards, and best practices in areas of technical expertise, contributing to continuous improvement
- Participate and contribute to discussions involving application architecture, configurations, system performance tuning, and infrastructure and middleware integration
What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role
- Self- motivated, curious, creative and passionate about emerging technologies
- Experience with micro-services and component-based architectures
- Hands-on experience with Spring, REST, MQ, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, React and JavaScript
- Familiarity with private/hybrid/public cloud architectures
- Excellent organizational, analytical, troubleshooting and independent problem-solving skills
Education & Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in related or relevant field
- 5+ years' experience as a software developer
- Experience with private/hybrid/public cloud architectures
- Experience with micro-services architectures
- Experience in continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)
- Experience with programming languages, tools/frameworks, databases, and middleware such as Java, Spring, Node JS, React, Javascript, Oracle, PL/SQL, SQL, MySQL, NoSQL Databases, MQ, and Kafka
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with agile and waterfall delivery practices
- Familiarity with private/hybrid/public cloud architectures
- Working knowledge of building CI/CD automated pipelines
- Familiarity with monitoring tools like Grafana, Splunk, Prometheus, Dynatrace
- Familiarity with Selenium, Junit, Jasmine, Mocha, Cucumber BDD framework
- Experience in working with delivery efficiency software such as Atlassian Jira and Confluence
Are you the right candidate? Yes!
We truly believe in the power that comes from the diverse backgrounds and experiences our employees bring with them. Although each vacancy details what we are looking for, we don't necessarily need you to fulfil all of them when applying. If you like change and innovation, seek to see the bigger picture, make data driven decisions and are a good team player, you could be a great fit.
Why this role is important to us
Our technology function, Global Technology Services (GTS), is vital to State Street and is the key enabler for our business to deliver data and insights to our clients. We're driving the company's digital transformation and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and advanced technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence and robotics process automation.
We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We're looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions that help us become an end-to-end, next-generation financial services company.
Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems and make your mark on our industry.
About State Street
What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we're making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we've been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.
Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans, among other perks. You'll have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.
Salary Range:
$70,000 - $115,000 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
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