Java Developer

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This role will focus on Embedded Banking API development, system integration, and high availability solutions for the entire payments lifecycle. As an Embedded Banking Sr. Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading the development for the APIs and backend microservices. 

An individual filling this role should be comfortable collaborating with an Agile team, leading discussions with both business and technology partners, and able to clearly articulate possible issues as well as solutions. The Sr. Software Engineer is engaged in best practice development initiatives, provides thoughtful leadership, and ability to adapt to ever-changing technology and business environments.

Essential Job Functions:

• Owns the development, implementation, assessment, and support of one or more components of an environment, application, or platform.
• Independently develops clean, maintainable, testable code for work assigned; performs peer code reviews.
• Designs solutions for the overall health, performance, and availability and actively works resolution of system and client experience impacts for one or more environments, applications, or platforms.
• Strong technical expert on the team; assigns work, mentors, and trains junior engineers.
• Advocates for new technology and improvements.
• 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.
• Create/Enhance Architecture Diagrams for each capability.
• Support off-hours monthly releases as needed.
• Actively participate in various Agile ceremonies such as Refinement, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, etc.

Required Qualifications:

• Education/Certifications: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience required
• Experience: 3+ years of application development experience
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience or understanding of the following software frameworks/concepts:  Java (17+)/SpringBoot, GCP, GKE, Oracle Exadata; Apigee; Ab Initio, Kafka, Mongo DB. 
• Experience or understanding with the following tools & technologies: Docker, GitLab, GIT, Jira, Confluence
• Proficient in creating and maintaining OpenAPI specs
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery environment, utilizing automated testing, as well as Test Driven Development
• Passion for technology and learning new tools and frameworks based upon project work.
• Experience or mastery of one of the test types is plus: E2E and UI Tests, API and Integration Tests, Performance Tests, Unit Tests (Java and JavaScript), Software Quality Analysis and Linting Tools, Security Scans and Tests, Service Virtualization, Build, Deployment and DevOps Tools.

Competencies and Skills: 

Working knowledge of the following:

• 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.
• Understanding 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.
• Effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
• Emerging technologies; ability to design, apply and evaluate new information technologies for business environments.
• 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.
• Software reliability management; ability to develop and use principles, methodologies and metrics that increase software product performance and reliability.

Extensive knowledge of the following:

• Quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.

• Approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Value of innovation; ability to create and develop new ideas for answers to work-related problems that improve the performance of the organization.
• Decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
• Software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
• Features and facilities of systems; ability to integrate and communicate among applications, databases and technology platforms.
• Production applications; ability to monitor application functions and resolve issues to maintain optimal conditions for system applications.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This position is eligible to earn a base salary in the range of $77,000 to $130,000 annually depending on location and job-related factors such as level of experience. Compensation for this role also includes eligibility for short-term incentive compensation and deferred incentive compensation subject to individual and company performance.

Please click here for a list of benefits for which this position is eligible.

KeyCorp is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other protected category.

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