Software Developer, AVP

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group•Jersey City, NJ

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

MUFG is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and support secure, enterprise-grade applications using modern Java technologies. The role focuses on Spring Boot, microservices, REST API development, and certificate-based service-to-service security. The position follows a hybrid schedule, with work at an MUFG office or client site four days per week and remote work one day per week. The successful candidate will build and maintain scalable applications and secure APIs, collaborate with technology and business partners, contribute to design and code reviews, create automated tests, and support continuous integration and delivery. The role also includes production issue investigation, root-cause analysis, documentation, and ensuring solutions meet security, performance, reliability, maintainability, and operational support requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
5+ years of hands-on software development experience.
Strong proficiency in modern Java development, including language features, concurrency, collections, exception handling, and JVM fundamentals; JDK 17+ experience.
Extensive experience designing and developing production-grade applications using Spring Boot 3 or later and the Spring Framework.
Hands-on experience configuring and supporting mutual certificate authentication for secure API and service-to-service communication, including keystores, truststores, certificate chains, rotation, and troubleshooting.
Proven experience designing, implementing, documenting, and supporting RESTful APIs and distributed microservices.
Experience with Spring Security, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, dependency injection, and configuration management.
Strong understanding of secure coding practices, authentication, authorization, encryption in transit, and secrets management.
Experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL, including SQL development and performance troubleshooting.
Experience developing unit and integration tests using JUnit, Mockito, and Spring Boot testing capabilities.
Proficiency with Git-based source control, branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and production support skills.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, API gateways, and complementary API-security controls.
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized application deployment.
Experience with Azure, AWS, or another enterprise cloud platform.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or a similar platform.
Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or equivalent solutions.
Experience with performance tuning, vulnerability remediation, and DevSecOps practices.
Banking or financial-services industry experience.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable Java applications using JDK 17+ and Spring Boot 3+.
Build secure REST APIs and microservices with mTLS for trusted service-to-service communication.
Configure and troubleshoot certificates, keystores, truststores, TLS handshakes, and certificate lifecycle issues.
Collaborate with solution architects, product owners, security teams, QA engineers, and other technology partners.
Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions.
Create automated unit and integration tests and contribute to continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
Investigate production issues, complete root-cause analysis, and implement durable corrective actions.
Ensure solutions meet security, performance, reliability, maintainability, and operational support requirements.
Produce clear technical documentation and share knowledge across the engineering team.