Principal Software Engineer JavaSpring BootAWSJunit
Job Location:
Boston, NH - USA
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Job Summary
Company
Federal Reserve Bank of BostonFederal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine Solutions FedNowSM Fedwire National Settlement Service (NSS) FedCash FedACH (Automated Clearing House) and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national enterprise-focused organization. Through our evolved structure we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality called the FedNow Service. This service enables financial institutions to provide their customers with the ability to send and receive payments any time any day and have full access to those funds within seconds. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of this mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States.
What will be expected of you-
- Serves as a Principal Software Engineer: to design develop and implement new complex solutions in accordance with FedNow and Fed Standards
- Ensures that the quality of software developed maintained and enhanced in-house and installed into production is sufficient to prevent the occurrence of catastrophic defects that cause the customer significant problems missed deadlines or interruption to the production environment
- Develops software solutions in Java Spring Terraform NoSQL and RDS in the Cloud
- Develop end to end Infrastructure-as-Code solutions in Cloud
- Provides input into strategic and tactical planning of software solutions and software development lifecycle changes
- In addition to being able to engineer across numerous areas of technology youll serve as subject matter expert in one or more areas
- Trains and consults cross functionally within the organization on troubleshooting/resolving highly complex and/or highly time critical problems
- Demonstrates skill dexterity; seeking to continuously adapt and employ new technical skills alongside proven staples
- Ensure compliance with Fed policies procedures and standards
Logistics& Requirements-
Deep expertise in Java and proficient knowledge of programming languages (JavaScript XML JSON HTML CSS etc. Python a bonus). Experience with modern Java features like genericsstreamsand lambdas.
Experience using JUnit 5 to write integration and unittests anduseits lifecycle interfaces and annotationsto handle related setup and teardown tasks.Understanding of how to useJUnits extension and lifecycle annotations and interfaces to create tools that enhance its default functionality andmonitortest plan execution results.
Experience with Apache Maven or Gradle to handle tasks such as compilation dependency management testingpackagingand deployment. Knowledgeof Apache Mavens build lifecyclesphases experience with custom plugin development and how tomap a custom plugins goals to Maven lifecycle phases
Proficient in MockitoandAssertJas well asintegration testing with @SpringBootTest.
Understanding of object-oriented design principles (ex: SOLID) to create maintainable extensible code and knowledge of design patterns inheritance hierarchies polymorphism composition over inheritance effective interface designencapsulationand immutability.
Comprehensive knowledge of Spring Boots core fundamentals includingauto-configuration starter dependencies anditsopinionated approach to application setup thateliminatesmuch of the boilerplate configurationin traditional Spring applications. Understandingofdependency injection the IoC container bean lifecycle managementas well asproficiencyin using annotations like @Component @Service @Repository and @Autowired.
Experience with AWS services and integrating them into an application
Expertisein building RESTful APIswith Spring Boot including knowledge of @RestController @RequestMapping request/response handling content negotiation and exception handling.
Understand data access patterns using Spring Data JPA including repository interfaces custom queries anddeclarative / programmatictransaction management.
Proficient knowledge of database development (SQL Oracle DB2)
Ideally youll have experience with leading edge Cloud technologies such as Kafka in-memory and NoSQL databases messaging platforms memcache etc).
Proficient knowledge of cloud security for application development and delivery
Ideally Infrastructure as Code (IAC); Terraform
Nice to Have-
Experience with API Development and consumption and microservices architecture
Familiaritywith database migration tools like Flyway or Liquibase.
Experience usingSpring Securityto handle security concerns in Spring Boot apps.
UnderstandingSpring Boots variousapplication properties configurations (profiles YAML vs properties files) and externalized configuration management.
Knowledge of monitoring and observability through Spring Boot Actuator including custom health checks and metrics.
Proficiencyworking withXML Schema Definition (XSD)schemasand XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations)templatesincludingXML schema design principles validation techniques Java-XML binding via JAXB namespace managementXSLT processing models template creationXPath expressions and transformation patterns for converting XML to various output formats.
Proficientwith unit testing integration testing between system components performance testing toidentifybottleneckssoak testing for long-term stability verificationandAPI testing.
Strong interpersonal teamwork and negotiation skills
Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
Salary
The salary range for this position is $173400.00 - $216700.00 - $260000.00. The Boston Fed believes in salary transparency. The final salary and offer will be determined by the applicants background skills internal equity and alignment with market data. Whether youre developing into the job or are a more seasoned candidate we aim to pay competitively. The position and job description posted is for a Principal Software Engineer however candidates will be placed in an appropriate level within the Software Engineer job family based on the extent of their experience. If you reside outside of the 1st District you may be hired by your local Federal Reserve District and compensation will follow hiring Districts range and policy.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is committed to provide equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race color religion national origin sex sexual orientation gender identity age genetic information disability or military service.
All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/ criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.
For this job any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two-phase security screening. The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening) reference checks and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks.
The second phase which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank is an additional risk-based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position. Depending upon the sensitivity of the position this phase may include and is not limited to work and residency eligibility verification and personal interviews with the candidate references and prior employers.
All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years
Full Time / Part Time
Full timeRegular / Temporary
RegularJob Exempt (Yes / No)
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About Company
One of 12 regional banks in the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City oversees system member banks and bank holding companies in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, northern New Mexico, Oklahoma, western Missouri, and Wyoming. The bank also has branch offices in Denv ... View more
