Principal Full Stack Engineer

Position Description: 

***Applicants are permitted to work remotely from an at-home work site anywhere in the United States.*** 

Builds and deploys web-based applications using cloud platforms -- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Azure. Builds automation pipelines using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and DevOps automation methodologies -- Maven, Jenkins, UDeploy, Stash, and Ansible. Designs, develops, and implements database connection management using different database drivers -- Relational Databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Elastic search, Graph DB). Creates reusable terraform modules to build service hosting applications on AWS using Kafka, Kinesis, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB. 

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) leading multiple projects simultaneously to design and develop Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Data capabilities using distributed technologies within financial industries.  

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) leading multiple projects simultaneously to design and develop Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Data capabilities using distributed technologies within financial industries. 

Skills and Knowledge: 

Candidate must also possess: 

• Demonstrated Expertise (“DE”) in developing full stack Java and Python based multi-tier architectures, using Java, J2EE technologies, Springboot, RESTful services, Jenkins pipeline, Maven build tools, GitHub, SQL Developer, API gateway, and Kubernetes technology stack. Overlooking into multiple code reviews, designing, and applying the well-suited design patterns. Following and enforcing secured API design and development to follow the industry standard authentication and authorization using JWT and oAuth2 mechanism. 

• DE in building Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to achieve high performant, and efficient deployment of software applications using automated DevOps processes based on BitBucket, Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Artifactory and Sonar technology stack. Responsible for creating, alerting, and monitoring tools for checking health of production software using Splunk. Performing quality assurance testing of software systems to ensure their reliability and performance by conducting unit, integration and performance testing using Junit, Postman and JMeter. 

• DE in designing and developing Cloud-native financial applications, microservices, and migrating on-premises data centric financial applications to Cloud using AWS Lambda, SQS, SNS, Glue, IAM, KMS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, Cloud Formation templates, event bridge and CloudWatch. 

• DE in analyzing new use cases, gathering the requirements, converting business cases into technical specifications, and creating project implementation plans to deliver the applications in an MVP approach using Mural, PowerPoint, Confluence, Splunk, ServiceNow, Jira. 

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