Senior Java Developer

KeyBank•Amherst, NY

21h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Java Developer executes on and influences the development, implementation, assessment, and support of one or more environments, applications, or platforms. This role involves designing solutions for overall health, performance, and availability, and actively working on the resolution of system and client experience impacts. The Senior Java Developer acts as a strong technical expert on the team, assigning work, mentoring, and training junior engineers, and advocating for new technology and improvements. They are responsible for applying proper security standards for code development, assisting in the development of strategies for the full software development life-cycle of new and emerging technologies, and making recommendations regarding selected technologies. Additionally, they create technical documentation, specifications, and project artifacts, identify and develop potential standards and best practices, and propose high-level application platform architectural guidelines. The role also includes formulating and designing technical solutions to meet business needs, and performing other duties as assigned. All employees are expected to comply with KeyBank policies and procedures, acting professionally, conducting business ethically, avoiding conflicts of interest, and acting in the best interests of Key’s clients and Key.

Requirements

5+ years of relevant experience
Hands-on experience and proficiency in Java – Strong object-oriented programming skills and backend development experience
Hands-on experience and proficiency in React – Building dynamic, responsive front-end applications using modern JavaScript frameworks
Hands-on experience and proficiency in HTML/CSS – Developing accessible, standards-compliant, and visually appealing user interfaces
Hands-on experience and proficiency in Git – Proficient in version control workflows, including branching, merging, and pull requests
Hands-on experience and proficiency in RESTful APIs – Designing, consuming, and integrating RESTful web services for scalable application development
Working Knowledge of the values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions
Extensive Experience with quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization
Extensive Experience with approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations
Extensive Experience with the value of innovation; ability to create and develop new ideas for answers to work-related problems that improve the performance of the organization
Working Knowledge of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team
Extensive Experience with the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment
Working Knowledge of effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization
Working Knowledge of emerging technologies; ability to design, apply and evaluate new information technologies for business environments
Extensive Experience with software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace
Working Knowledge of basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design
Extensive Experience with software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements
Extensive Experience with of the features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms
Working Knowledge of software reliability management; ability to develop and use principles, methodologies and metrics that increase software product performance and reliability
Extensive Experience with production applications; ability to monitor application functions and resolve issues to maintain optimal conditions for system applications

Nice To Haves

Experience or familiarity with CI/CD – Exposure to automated build, test, and deployment pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLabs
Experience or familiarity with SQL – Writing and optimizing queries for relational databases such as SQL Server

Responsibilities

Independently develops clean, maintainable, testable code for work assigned
Performs code reviews for all levels of engineer
Designs solutions for the overall health, performance, and availability
Actively works resolution of system and client experience impacts for one or more environments, applications, or platforms
Assigns work, mentors, and trains junior engineers
Advocates for new technology and improvements
Applies, and prepares to ensure, proper security standards for code development
Assists in the development of strategies for the full software development life-cycle of new and emerging technologies and make recommendations regarding selected technologies and demonstrates the viability
Creates technical documentation, specifications, and project artifacts for developing code
Identifies and develops potential standards and best practices
Proposes high-level application platform architectural guidelines
Formulates and designs technical solutions to meet business needs
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all KeyBank policies and procedures, including without limitation, acting professionally at all times, conducting business ethically, avoiding conflicts of interest, and acting in the best interests of Key’s clients and Key.