Backend Software Engineer- (Java/Kafka)
About The Position
The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance. As a Lead Software Engineer on the UTC Modernization program, you will lead the transformation of core trade processing systems by modernizing legacy UTC applications into cloud ready, event driven architectures. This role is critical to advancing DTCC’s multi year modernization strategy, improving resiliency, scalability, and real time processing capabilities across post trade platforms. You will drive the design and implementation of distributed backend services leveraging Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and relational databases, supporting key functions such as MPID processing, trade validation, and data synchronization across systems. Your work will directly impact the accuracy, timeliness, and stability of trade processing workflows. In addition to hands on development, you will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and influence architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are aligned with enterprise standards, risk controls, and operational excellence. You will collaborate across squads and platform teams to deliver robust, production grade solutions that strengthen DTCC’s role as trusted market infrastructure. DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind. Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC’s business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC’s mission to support the financial markets.
Requirements
- Minimum of 6 years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
- Strong backend engineering experience with Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka.
- Hands on experience with Oracle or similar relational databases.
- Proficiency with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)
- Experience building distributed, event driven, or cloud native applications.
- Experience with Angular for front end development
- Ability to work across the full stack, contributing primarily to backend and messaging driven components while supporting UI work as needed.
Responsibilities
- Act as a technical expert on one or more applications utilized by DTCC
- Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements
- Partner with Infrastructure to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments
- Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues
- Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards
- Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
- Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs
- Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs, and participate in the construction and functional testing
- Support development teams, testing, troubleshooting, and production support
- Create applications and construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non-functional requirements
- Work with peers to mature ways of working, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
- Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
- Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
- Pension / Retirement benefits
- Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
