Sr. Software Development Engineer

LPL Financial•Charlotte, TX

About The Position

The Senior Developer works on a development team building high-quality back-office workflow applications and services for operators and internal stakeholders. The role involves developing backend microservices and REST APIs, as well as working with event-driven systems and workflow orchestration. The developer works independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with designers, engineers, stakeholders, and end-users to deliver features, resolve defects, and support users.

Requirements

6 or more years of experience building scalable enterprise applications.
6 or more years of experience building backend services and APIs using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Spring Data JPA, Spring Kafka, OpenFeign, gRPC, PostgreSQL, and Docker containers.
3 or more years of hands-on experience with workflow or process automation, such as Camunda 8 / Zeebe job workers, process instances, and Tasklist/Operate integrations.
3 or more years of experience with cloud platforms, AWS preferred, and containerized deployment on Kubernetes.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
Experience with BPMN 2.0 and Camunda 8 deployment pipelines.
Experience with Confluent/Kafka, including SASL, topic design, and consumer reliability.
Experience with Liquibase or similar relational migration tooling.
Familiarity with Angular and micro-frontends, such as Nx or module federation, for the operator portal.
Exposure to Dynatrace or similar observability tools for production workflow platforms.

Responsibilities

Participate in code reviews and sprint ceremonies.
Implement feature requests and produce testable solutions that meet business and functional requirements; ensure solutions are tested and validated.
Be accountable for service-level objectives defined for their own work.
Collaborate with designers and engineers to maintain consistency across product, platform, and solution technical designs and implementations.
Communicate and exchange ideas about software architecture and engineering best practices with other designers and engineers.
Respond to user support issues and requests for assistance, helping users navigate applications and resolve basic data-entry, file-upload, navigation, and printing problems.
Communicate regularly with stakeholders and end-users to understand their needs and deliver features and defect resolutions in a timely manner.
Establish and maintain ongoing relationships with customers.
Understand the markets and products the company serves, as well as the competitive landscape.
Create mechanisms to ensure all voices are heard within the project team and commit to team decisions once made.
Identify opportunities to streamline processes and apply best practices; advocate for needed changes to processes, policies, and tools.