FedNow Senior Software Engineer

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.

We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation.

To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

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.

Candidates that live near one of our Reserve Bank locations will be provided some work from home flexibility. Rules for hybrid work arrangements differs from Bank to Bank and should be discussed during the interview process.

Position Contributions-

Top level technical expert in one or more highly specialized areas of applications systems analysis and programming. Responsible for software design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.

Has full technical knowledge of all phases of applications systems analysis and development. Provides technical leadership on complex projects.

Interacts with internal project teams and work groups regularly. level of work required is considered advanced and staff must be able to work under minimal supervision.

This job does not have any direct reports. You have an appetite to learn, and a passion for technology, innovation, and developing new skills on evolving technologies.

What will be expected of you-

Serves as a Senior Software Engineer : to design, develop and implement new complex solutions in accordance with FedNow and Fed Standards

Develops software solutions (front end SPA and backend) in 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, you’ll 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

Collaborates with analysts as part of an integrated Agile team to define user requirements and conduct design review for the development of complex and innovative cloud applications using modern internet-scale technologies and Serverless architecture in Cloud

Demonstrates skill dexterity; seeking to continuously adapt and employ new technical skills alongside proven staples

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

Ensure compliance with Fed policies, procedures and standards

Provides primary or backup production support for applications and components, including but not limited to timely resolution to production problems and processing issues

Expertise you will bring-

8+ years of Java Development

3+ years working with AWS cloud-based platforms in an enterprise environment.

Demonstrated experience engineering software with cloud-first architectures

5+ years software engineering experience in a team-based environment

Experience with building and deploying solutions in Cloud

Experience with Serverless architecture for building software solutions in Cloud

Experience with CI / CD build tools, and DevOps processes

Experience developing high performance, high volume, highly available

24 / 7 / 365) environments

Experience with Agile software engineering (Scrum, Kanban, Lean etc)

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems,

Logistics& Requirements-

Deep expertise in Java and proficient knowledge of programming languages (JavaScript, XML, JSON, HTML, CSS etc. Python a bonus)

Proficient knowledge of operating systems (Linux, Unix, Windows)

Proficient knowledge of database development (SQL, Oracle, DB2)

Ideally, you’ll have experience with AWS services, and integrating them into an application

Ideallyyou’ll have experience with leading edge Cloud technologies, such as Kafka, in-memory and NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, memcacheetc).

Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities

Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication abilities

Proficient knowledge of cloud security for application development and delivery

Advanced knowledge of object-oriented programming

Ideally, Infrastructure as Code (IAC); Terraform

Nice to Have-

Experience with API Development and consumption and microservices architecture

Experience with agile development methodology

AWS Certifications

Knowledge of technology project and secure coding standards

Strong interpersonal, teamwork and negotiation skills

Strong customer service skills

Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills

Familiarity with usability techniques and best practices

Infrastructure as Code (IAC); Terraform

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Job Category

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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