Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer
About The Position
The Vice President, Full-Stack Engineer will join the Structured Debt Client Platform Engineering team in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The role develops and supports full-stack applications and services for a financial-services platform, with work spanning Java and Spring Boot backend services, Angular applications, microservices, API integrations, databases, and cloud deployment. The engineer contributes to modular frontend architecture, secure and reliable software, automated testing, CI/CD workflows, application performance, and data integrity, including for Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) systems and data structures. The position collaborates with DevOps engineers, product managers, analysts, and QA engineers to translate financial-domain requirements into software solutions. It also involves keeping current with technology and best practices and mentoring junior team members.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- At least 5 years of hands-on software development experience with WebLogic Portal and J2EE technologies.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience; focused fintech experience or experience in a similar environment is strongly preferred.
- Experience with 3-tier and n-tier systems, cloud computing, and microservices architecture.
- Hands-on experience with Angular, NgRx, RxJS, and micro-frontends.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience designing and developing microservices using Java/Spring Boot and Node.js.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted application development and integration using tools such as Windsurf IDE or similar agentic IDEs.
- At least 3 years of relevant experience with API concepts and technologies such as REST, JSON, XML, SOAP, YAML, GraphQL, and Swagger.
- Hands-on experience writing RESTful web services using Spring/JAX-RS.
- Development experience using agile methodology and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience developing and building microservices using AWS Cloud Services.
- Spring Portlet development experience.
- Working knowledge of HTML, Ajax, jQuery, and JavaScript.
- Work experience with SVN, Git, or equivalent source-control systems.
- Experience with Oracle RDBMS.
- Experience supporting or implementing complex integration projects.
- Experience working as part of a large team and operating independently.
- Experience with secure coding practices.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Nice To Haves
- AWS Cloud development experience and AWS Developer Certification.
- Exposure to SOA suite middleware.
- Experience configuring web service security policies.
- Experience with WebCenter ADF Framework and remote portlet configurations with WebCenter Spaces/Portal.
- Exposure to PL/SQL.
- Experience in the securities or financial services industry.
- Experience with Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS), MBS products, or applications supporting MBS.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and performant backend services using Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs.
- Build and enhance Angular applications using TypeScript, NgRx, and Nx for micro-frontend architecture.
- Architect and contribute to a modular frontend framework that supports multiple applications through Nx workspaces and shared libraries.
- Develop and consume APIs in a distributed microservices environment, emphasizing reliability, maintainability, and testability.
- Implement structured logging and integrate applications with monitoring tools and logging aggregators.
- Collaborate with DevOps engineers to define and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
- Apply test-driven and behavior-driven development practices using the stated testing tools and frameworks.
- Use code-quality and security tools to support maintainable and compliant code.
- Analyze and optimize application performance, database interactions, and service integrations.
- Ensure data integrity and business logic correctness when integrating with Oracle and relational databases, particularly for MBS-related data structures.
- Contribute to MBS initiatives such as pool-level data processing, cashflow modeling, investor reporting, and REMIC structures.
- Collaborate with product managers, analysts, and QA engineers to turn financial-domain requirements into working software.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and best practices, and mentor junior team members.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
