Senior Java Software Engineer | Bank Technology

Job Description Summary

Note: This position follows our hybrid-friendly schedule, so you get the best of both worlds – flexibility and collaboration. In office days will be 2-3 per week averaging 10-12 days per month in our St Petersburg, FL Corporate Office.

This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

Job Description

As part of the application development IT team supporting Raymond James Bank, this Senior Software Engineer will build high priority integration components and web applications for the core banking platform.  In recent years, there has been increased focus at the Bank on automating and integrating business processes across applications.  This role will work with various inputs into integrations, call enterprise services for supplemental data and interact with the proprietary banking API.  As the integration components grow, so does the need for support, in addition to new builds.  

In addition to integrations, there will be opportunity to work on web applications and the potential to grow into a full-stack Engineer.  This individual will be involved in the full SDLC and will be responsible for designing, coding, testing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting application software.  This role works closely with the IT Analysts on the team, but they also interact directly with business users during testing and production support.  After sufficient business domain ramp-up time, this individual will become the primary point of contact on some of the applications; handles complex problems independently and demonstrates analytical thinking.

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities of this role will expand over time into other custom application development, using Java and Angular technology skillsets within the Banking business domain. 

• Analyzes business requirements, provides technical solutions/recommendations, identifies tasks and corresponding estimates.  

• Enhance existing applications and contribute to development of new applications by analyzing and identifying areas for modification and improvement. Develop new routine applications to meet business requirements.

• Analyzes system requirements, including identifying program interactions and appropriate interfaces between impacted components and sub systems.

• Team collaboration is key for this role; follow guidance of Lead Engineers to maintain standards and design patterns, as well as provide guidance to others in areas of expertise, as needed.

• Makes recommendations towards the development of new code or to reuse of existing code.

• May recommend new technologies and methodologies to management for meeting business needs, resolving problems and exploiting opportunities. Remains current with new technologies.

• Participates in software system testing, deployments, validation procedures and technical documentation.

• Provides technical advice and assists in solving business problems.

• Writes and/or reviews system specifications, including output requirements and flow charts.

• Assists in preparing project plans by providing tasks and estimates of effort. 

• Performs Developer Integration Testing; documents test results.

• Ensures proper analysis of problems and programming approaches to prevent rework and delays.

• Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Skills/Previous Experience:

• Three (3) to five (5) or years of experience in Design, Development and Support of Data-Driven, highly scalable multi-tier applications.  

Required:

• Write clean and maintainable code.

• Strong background in Java/J2EE programming.

• Strong experience in working at all stages of SDLC.

• Building and consuming JSON-based RESTful APIs.

• Working knowledge of Spring and ORM (Hibernate preferred) and Spring Boot.

• Good knowledge working with TFS or JIRA, Dev Ops, Jenkins, GIT and Junit.

• Good knowledge working with tools such as Splunk, Postman.

• Working in a modified Agile team environment.

Preferred:

• Financial industry background is a plus.

• Experience with Dev productivity tools such as GitHub Copilot and Windsurf is a plus.

• Experience with some job scheduling tool is a plus.

• Angular 12 or onwards, HTML 5, CSS and Typescript is a plus.

• Oracle database experience is a nice to have.

Licenses/Certifications:

• None required.

Education

Bachelor’s: Computer and Information Science, Bachelor’s: Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s: Data Science, High School (HS) (Required)

Work Experience

General Experience - 3 to 6 years

Certifications

Travel

Less than 25%

Workstyle

Hybrid

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. 

We expect our associates at all levels to:
•  Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
•  Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
•  Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
•  Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
•  Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates.  When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. 

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