Lead Developer

Lead Engineer

Salary Range: $125k - $150k base

Bonus Target: 15%

Location: New York (hybrid)

The Strategic Product Engineering Team supports RTP and other new products. This position is for a Senior Developer/Team Lead for Strategic Engineering.

The successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing and maintaining RTP and other applications. A key aspect of the role will be to support the migration to Cloud based computing.

Qualifications required:

• Minimum 5 years related IT experience in analysis, design, development, documentation, implementing and testing of software systems in Java, Spring, J2EE App servers on Red Hat Linux, UNIX, or AIX
• Experience with complex system design and evaluating and proposing alternative software designs
• Experience managing a team and being hands-on
• Thorough knowledge of secure development practices
• Experience in both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies
• Sound RDBMS concepts and SQL skills (e.g., for troubleshooting)
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
• Ability to set priorities and handle multiple tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Professional demeanor and ability to work effectively with other staff within the organization
• Highly motivated, enthusiastic and self-starter.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in the field of Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, or other related field

Qualifications desired:

• Experience in wholesale or retail banking technology, especially money transfer (e.g. ISO20022, Faster Payments, SWIFT, Fedwire, RTGS, etc.)
• Experience with IBM MQ, Rabbit MQ or DB2
• Knowledgeable in Software Reliability Engineering, test automation and CI/CD processes and tools such as GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar Cube, Fortify, etc.
• Experience developing or migrating applications to Cloud Environments (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, etc.)
• Experience developing applications in Erlang or other functional programming languages such as Haskell, Scala, etc.

Essential functions and responsibilities:

• Perform new development, maintenance, and support for RTP and other strategic products
• Triage, troubleshoot, and resolve Level 3 and Level 4 production issues
• Perform root cause analysis of issues
• Support release implementation, infrastructure upgrades, and maintenance testing
• Provide training for production support teams
• Success factors/job competencies:
• Resourceful when working independently
• Respectful of others when working collaboratively
• Easily adapt to new technology and design patterns
• Effectively supervise other developers to ensure successful completion of teamwork
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to prioritize appropriately

Performance standards:

• Perform Design and Code reviews
• Complete assigned development tasks on time and with high quality
• Ability to quickly troubleshoot issues and provide fixes
• Contribute to development standards and assist with evaluation of others' work