Senior Backend Java Developer

Fifth Third Bank • Cincinnati, OH

2d • Onsite

About The Position

As a member of an agile squad, responsible for implementing new features and enabling capabilities using modern software engineering tools and practices. Adheres to practices and standards, set by communities of practice, and contributes to a culture of continuous improvement. Shares responsibility and accountability for risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns, and personally following policies and procedures as defined. Doing the right thing for customers and colleagues ensures that actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience. Responsible and accountable for risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns, and personally following policies and procedures as defined. Accountable for always doing the right thing for customers and colleagues, and ensures that actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience. While operating within the Bank's risk appetite, achieves results by consistently identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting risks of all types.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or comparable with 0-3 years of software development experience
• Strong expertise in Spring Boot, RESTful API design, and microservices architecture
• Experience with Apache Kafka for event-driven systems
• Proficiency with AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, API Gateway, RDS/DynamoDB, etc.)
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments
• Familiarity with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (or similar tools)
• Experience using Dynatrace and/or Splunk for monitoring and logging
• Understanding of backend support for mobile apps (authentication, performance, scalability)
• Proven experience designing backend systems that support mobile applications
• Strong knowledge of Java, microservices, and cloud-native architectures
• Hands-on AWS experience
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, message queues, and API security

Responsibilities

• Implement new features while maintaining overall quality of software
• Contribute to a culture of learning by documenting and sharing technical knowledge as a developer on an agile squad
• Participate in developer communities of practice by following best practices, participating in code reviews, and sharing knowledge
• Remain current on relevant technology trends
• Design and develop scalable, secure RESTful APIs used by iOS/Android mobile apps
• Build and maintain microservices in a cloud-native environment
• Integrate backend services with mobile-specific capabilities (authentication, push notifications, analytics pipelines, etc.)
• Perform code reviews, debugging, monitoring, and performance tuning
• Ensure reliability, scalability, and observability across backend services
• Collaborate with mobile, web, DevOps, and product teams
• Maintain technical documentation and ensure adherence to engineering best practices
• Participate in full SDLC including requirements, design, development, testing, and production support

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits
• Differentiated compensation offerings
• Incentive compensation plan
• Extensive benefits programs designed to support the individual needs of our employees and their families, encompassing physical, financial, emotional and social well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior