FINRA
LeadJavaSoftwareIndividualContributor
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“Lead Java Software Individual Contributor at FINRA. Skills: Java, AWS, Spring Boot, microservices architectures, event-driven architectures, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native solutions. owns development of software products. improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle”
What You'll Achieve.
help achieve key strategic objectives
Industry & Context.
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
Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements., Occasional travel and extended hours may be required., FINRA’s Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees’ investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator., FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts., All of those accounts are subject to the Code’s investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions—including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA’s Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President—by the date they begin employment with FINRA., Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment., Employees must also execute FINRA’s Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company’s policy on nepotism.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
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, system design experience, experience in object-oriented development, experience with cloud technologies, 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
What You'll Do.
owns development of software products
improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle
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
Assist with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines while architecting and developing cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services
How You'll Work.
Team & 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; Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity; fostering a DevOps culture within the team
Communication Scope
communicates integration recommendations to management; Openly shares progress and priorities with key stakeholders, communicating complex or technical information at the right level
Full Job Description
Working independently, the Lead Software 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. 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 * 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 scala
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