Java Full Stack Developer

Senior Associate

Hybrid onsite at Jersey City, NJ, Dallas, TX, and Tampa, FL. CTH 2 round interview process. Role expectations overall experience and ownership typically 5–8 years of hands-on full-stack development experience.

Works independently on complex features, with minimal day-to-day hand-holding. Owns design and delivery of stories end-to-end, from refinement through production support. Acts as a go-to engineer within the squad, but is not yet an enterprise or architectural authority. AI tool exposure like Kiro, Amazon Q is a plus but not required.

Frontend Development - Strong working experience with Angular or React.

Develops maintainable, modular UI components and integrates them with backend APIs. Understands state management, routing, performance considerations, and error handling. Awareness of accessibility and usability standards expected in enterprise applications. Any exposure to MFE (Micro Front end) is a plus.

Backend Development (Strong Focus) – Strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.

Designs and implements production-grade REST APIs following DTCC standards. Solid understanding of microservices architecture: service boundaries, configuration management, inter-service communication, error handling and resiliency. Working experience with Kafka or equivalent messaging systems: producers/consumers, topic usage, message versioning awareness. Applies logging, monitoring, and exception strategies suitable for regulated environments. Database & SQL Strong SQL proficiency: complex joins, subqueries, aggregations. Can diagnose and fix basic query or data-related performance issues. Cloud, Platform & DevOps Working knowledge of: Docker, OpenShift/Kubernetes concepts. Understands CI/CD pipelines and can troubleshoot build or deployment failures. Not responsible for platform strategy, but expected to be platform-aware and self-sufficient. Quality, Security & Compliance Writes unit and component tests as part of normal development. Participates in code reviews with a strong quality mindset. Understands secure coding principles and follows DTCC security standards. Aware of audit, compliance, and resilience expectations in a financial-services environment.

Interview & Hiring Expectations (Key Differentiator) Candidates at this level must be able to demonstrate depth, not just familiarity. Expected to:

Walk through real production projects they've worked on. Explain design decisions, not just implementations. Debug or reason through problems live using an IDE.

Interviews will assess: Frontend integration scenarios Practical coding and reasoning skills Java & Spring Boot depth SQL problem-solving

Screen sharing is mandatory, and answers should reflect hands-on experience, not memorized theory.

Collaboration & Leadership (Lightweight)

Supports junior engineers through guidance and code reviews. Partners effectively with QA, DevOps, and product teams. Communicates clearly with managers and stakeholders on technical risks and progress. Does not formally lead teams but demonstrates informal technical leadership within the squad.

What a Senior Associate Is Not Expected to Do

Define enterprise-wide architecture. Own cross-application platform strategy. Lead major initiatives independently without senior oversight. Represent DTCC as a technical authority externally.

From an Observability and Operational Readiness perspective, the focus is on ensuring production readiness for upcoming go-lives—enabling monitoring, alerting, and resilience across React-based UI modernization, Spring Boot APIs, and Kafka-driven integrations. Efforts are aligned to standardization, scalability, and NFR compliance, with one critical application targeted for production rollout in August.

Prescreening Requirements : Ensure that candidates have an IDE set up locally and strong sample projects that clearly demonstrate their skill set. Ask questions based on their projects, and they should be able to explain the code in detail.

They should be capable of writing basic code quickly using an IDE. Online IDEs and basic "Hello World" programs are not acceptable. The candidate should be able to rotate the camera to show their surroundings to ensure that no external assistance is present. Keeping the video camera on is mandatory.

EEO:

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.