Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Under minimal supervision, the Senior Software Engineer assists in developing software products and works on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle.

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.

Essential Job Functions:

• Designs and develops industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives
• Works on broad problems of scope that require decision making and creativity
• Receives general guidance but work is done independently and impacts team level goals
• Defines technical solutions or operational processes to improve efficiency
• Possesses a solid understanding and familiarity of systems and processes within job area
• Delivers many of the team's goals on time and with a high standard of quality
• Preemptively identifies and resolves technical risks before they jeopardize the project. Resolves cross-team dependencies earlier to ensure the successful execution of the project
• Demonstrated understanding in computer science fundamentals - Algorithm design, Problem solving, Complexity analysis and data structures

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, NoSQL systems, and graph databases, with expertise in data modeling approaches and design patterns for diverse data persistence requirements.

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.

Engineering/Operations Excellence:

• Implements ways to simplify code and infrastructure. Prioritizes tasks that lead to lower system and infrastructure maintenance and migration costs with meaningful and measurable impact
• Examines problems from different perspectives and uses evaluation, judgement, and interpretation to select right course of action
• Accepts risk and uncertainty of business change as normal
• Builds productive and collaborative working relationships with senior internal/external partners to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities
• Actively seeks perspectives and works to engage others when communicating
• Demonstrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative in day-to-day actions with the team
• Avoids blame and solves the right problems, disagreeing and committing when necessary to move decisions forward
• Demonstration of FINRA's values
• Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA's mission of investor protection and market integrity

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 5 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience
• System design experience
• Strong experience in object-oriented development
• Strong experience with cloud technologies
• Strong experience in data storage technologies
• Experience in performance tuning and optimization
• Experience in DevOps and CI/CD technologies
• Experience test automation and unit testing
• Experience software security
• FINRA Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) certification or acceptable industry equivalent certification is required upon hire or within 16 months of the start date of the assigned SIE training cohort

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements
• Occasional travel and extended hours may be required