Java Software Engineer; Team Lead

FINRA•Rockville, MD

3d•$114,200 - $248,700•Hybrid

About The Position

Working independently, the Java Software Engineer; Team Lead owns development of software products and works on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle and mentors other Software Engineers. Experienced hands-on technical team lead to design, deliver scalable, secure, enterprise-grade solutions. This role requires deep Java expertise with strong knowledge of modern software architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven), cloud-native AWS development, and DevOps/CI/CD proficiency. The lead will provide technical mentorship through code reviews, collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders, while making architectural and technical decisions and drive engineering best practices.

Requirements

Experience in backend development across server-side technologies and architectures
Ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance systems from API layer to data persistence, with deep understanding of modern frameworks (Spring Boot), RESTful and GraphQL APIs, microservices architectures, event-driven architectures, and database design patterns.
Strong experience with modern data storage solutions including relational databases and NoSQL systems with expertise in data modeling approaches and design patterns for diverse data persistence requirements
System design experience with ability to architect scalable, enterprise-grade document and metadata ingestion, processing, and persistence at scale
Assist with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines while architecting and developing cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services, including Lambda, Step functions, SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, Fargate, Aurora, fostering a strong DevOps culture within the team.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.
Strong system design experience
Strong experience in object-oriented development
Strong experience with cloud technologies
Strong experience in data storage technologies
Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization
Strong experience in DevOps and CI/CD technologies
Strong experience test automation and unit testing
Strong experience software security

Nice To Haves

Experience with OpenSearch and NoSQL databases is highly preferred

Responsibilities

Designs and develops industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives
Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results
Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals
Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management
Helps identify gaps between system components and designs and delivers solutions
Implements methods for managing and maintaining the organization’s software development environments to ensure software engineers are equipped with the tools and resources necessary to create and validate builds
Coaches and trains less experienced colleagues in techniques, processes, and responsibilities
Integrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative into team goals and decisions
Partners within and across teams to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities

Benefits

comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal.
immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match
eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution
tuition reimbursement
commuter benefits
adoption assistance
backup family care
surrogacy benefits
employee assistance
wellness programs
15 days of paid time off
5 personal days
9 sick days
two volunteer service days
military leave
jury duty leave
bereavement leave
voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections
care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment)
childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment)
nine paid holidays