Principal Full Stack Engineer

Position Description: 

Designs and develops web services using Java, Python and Go. Develops and builds Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) by using frameworks -- Dropwizard and Jety. Deploys application builds according to Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) methodologies using Stash and Jenkins Core. Supports software capabilities within cloud environments, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and with its related services -- Lambda, AWS DynamoDB, and AWS SQS. Automates pipelines using Agile environment tools -- Jira. Secures, scalable and innovative cloud-native solutions by leveraging software tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform. 

Primary Responsibilities: 

• Participates in architecture design teams. 

• Defines and implements application level architecture. 

• Develops applications on complex projects, components, and subsystems for the division. 

• Recommends development testing tools and methodologies and reviews and validates test plans. 

• Responsible for QA readiness of software deliverables. 

• Develops comprehensive documentation for multiple applications or subsystems. 

• Establishes full project life cycle plans for complex projects across multiple platforms. 

• Responsible for meeting project goals on-time and on-budget. 

• Advises on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects. 

• Plans and coordinates project schedules and assignments for multiple projects. 

• Acts as a primary liaison for business units to resolve various project/technology issues. 

• Provides technology solutions to daily issues and technical evaluation estimates on technology initiatives. 

• Advises senior management on technical strategy. 

• Mentors junior team members. 

• Performs independent and complex technical and functional analysis for multiple projects supporting several divisional initiatives. 

• Develops original and creative technical solutions to on-going development efforts. 

Education and Experience: 

Bachelor’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and five (5) years of experience as a Principal Full Stack Engineer (or closely related occupation) project managing the design, development, and delivery of customer-facing online transaction processing financial applications.  

Or, alternatively, Master’s degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Information Systems, Mathematics, Physics, or a closely related field and three (3) years of experience as a Principal Full Stack Engineer (or closely related occupation) project managing the design, development, and delivery of customer-facing online transaction processing financial applications. 

Skills and Knowledge: 

Candidate must also possess: 

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) performing Object-Oriented design and Java Web application development, using Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring Security, micro-services, RESTful Web Services, or SOAP; and developing chatbots with RASA NLU (Natural Language Understanding) using Python. 

• DE designing and developing enterprise Cloud-based security solutions using Amazon Cloud Computing Services -- EKS, EC2, and IAM, S3, Lambda, RDS, or Elasticache services -- and improving security of these solutions using Web security technologies (OAuth Encrypted Key Management, Applications Secrets Management, and SAML), AWS KMS, AWS WAF or AWS Crypto to improve the security. 

• DE developing and maintaining responsive UI applications, using JavaScript frameworks, Angular, Node.js, Express, JQuery, AJAX, or Bootstrap CSS; performing unit and functional testing for API and Selenium IDE/Jest User Interfaces (UIs), using Junit, Mockito, or Powermockito; and developing virtual assets for functional and scalability testing, using Wiremocks. 

• DE integrating build processes according to Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), using Jenkins and GitLab as a CI platform and Urban Deploy as a CD platform; and deploying REST microservice applications in AWS using Terraform and Cloud Formation Template (CFT). 

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