Senior Full Stack Software Engineer - Java/AWS

DTCC • Tampa, FL

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

At DTCC, your work will directly contribute to the stability, resiliency, and efficiency of the global financial markets. As the industry's premier post-trade market infrastructure, DTCC processes and safeguards trillions of dollars in securities transactions annually. As a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, you will play a key role in modernizing mission-critical platforms that enable the secure, reliable, and high-volume movement of business transactions across DTCC's enterprise ecosystem. Leveraging technologies including Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, Angular, React, Docker, and Kubernetes, you will design and build cloud-native applications, scalable microservices, modern user experiences, and real-time event-driven solutions. This is an opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges at enterprise scale, influence technical design decisions, and contribute to a multi-year cloud and application modernization journey. If you're passionate about building highly scalable, resilient, and secure platforms that power global financial services, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while accelerating your technical growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale software applications.
• Proven experience leading complex technical initiatives and delivering scalable technology solutions.
• Deep expertise in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, and Hibernate.
• Strong experience building modern front-end applications using Angular and/or React.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Hands-on experience developing RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience building highly scalable, high-performance enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, and software architecture best practices.
• Experience with Apache Kafka or Confluent Kafka.
• Experience developing cloud-native applications on AWS, including EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, and related services.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and containerized application deployments.
• Experience with Git, Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Jira, and CI/CD automation.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, DevOps practices, and continuous delivery principles.
• Strong SQL, database development, and performance tuning experience utilizing Oracle or DB2.
• Experience working with enterprise integration, messaging, and transaction-processing systems.
• Knowledge of reconciliation processes, operational controls, audit frameworks, and data integrity solutions.
• Understanding of observability, monitoring, resiliency engineering, capacity planning, and operational readiness practices.
• Strong knowledge of secure coding principles, application security, and software engineering best practices.
• Ability to influence technical direction and drive architectural decisions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and foster collaborative, high-performing teams.
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments managing multiple priorities and complex technical challenges.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and automation practices is preferred.
• Experience with Spring Cloud and cloud-native design patterns.
• Experience with IBM MQ, Solace, or other enterprise messaging technologies.
• Experience with Python or automation development.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools.
• Experience supporting large-scale, high-volume, mission-critical transaction processing platforms.
• Experience working across mainframe, distributed, and cloud-native ecosystems.
• Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, Kiro, or similar technologies.
• Financial Services, Capital Markets, FinTech, Payments, or other highly regulated industry experience.
• Financial Services, Capital Markets, FinTech, or experience working in highly regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and support of full-stack applications utilizing Java, Spring Boot, Angular, React, and AWS.
• Drive application architecture, technical design reviews, engineering standards, and software development best practices.
• Champion engineering excellence through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance across teams.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and engineering practices that improve platform capabilities and developer productivity.
• Design and implement scalable microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
• Build cloud-native applications leveraging AWS services and containerized technologies.
• Develop reusable frameworks, enterprise integration solutions, and shared platform capabilities.
• Deliver modern, intuitive user experiences that improve usability and operational efficiency.
• Design and develop event-driven architectures utilizing Kafka and related messaging technologies.
• Implement highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient application services.
• Support enterprise transaction processing platforms requiring high throughput, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Develop solutions that ensure transaction integrity, reconciliation, auditability, and operational control.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.
• Implement monitoring, observability, alerting, resiliency, and recovery capabilities.
• Optimize performance, scalability, security, and availability across distributed environments.
• Support applications throughout the software development lifecycle, including production support and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner closely with Product Owners, Architects, Platform Engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver strategic technology solutions.
• Collaborate effectively within Agile teams across global locations.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
• Contribute to strategic modernization initiatives and enterprise technology roadmaps.

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.

What This Job Offers

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