Raymond James

Lead Java Engineer

Saint Petersburg, FL
Java REST SOAP Microservices Spring Spring Boot SQL NOSQL Redis Kafka MQ Datadog Dynatrace Splunk Jenkins AWS
Description

Lead Java Engineer

Location: Saint Petersburg, Florida - United States

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Description Summary

As a Lead Developer on our Enterprise Services team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering technical solutions that power critical applications across the organization. This is not just a coding role—it’s an opportunity to shape architecture, influence technology strategy, and solve complex challenges that impact millions of transactions daily. You will own activities across all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and architectural excellence.

Job Description

This position follows our hybrid-friendly schedule, so you get the best of both worlds – flexibility and collaboration. In office days will be 2-3 per week averaging 10-12 days per month in our St Petersburg, FL Corporate Office.

Skills and Responsibilities:

  • Overall 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering discipline

  • Extensive (7+ years of hands-on) experience working with Java 8+. REST, SOAP, Micro Services and Service Oriented and Even Driven Architectures

  • Extensive (7+ years of hands-on) Experience working with Spring, Spring Boot, Solution Architecture, Design Patterns, Integration Frameworks, SQL, NOSQL

  • Experience with near/distributed caches and strategies e.g. Redis, Apache Ignite

  • Experience taking rotations for production support and addressing issues on time

  • Experience mentoring junior developers and offshore team including reviewing quality of deliverables (design, code and timelines)

  • Experience optimizing API performance – API resiliency, caching frameworks and streaming/messaging platforms Kafka and MQ

  • Deep understanding of software engineering practices, object-oriented analysis & design, design patterns, Coding modularity, Prototypes and algorithms.

  • Excellent communication skills, analytical ability, strong judgment skills, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

  • Experience with monitoring tools like Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk

  • Experience with CI/CD using Jenkins

  • Experience with AWS is a is a plus

  • Experience with AL, ML, NLP is a plus

  • Financial services experience highly preferred.

Education

Bachelor’s: Computer and Information Science, High School (HS) (Required)

Work Experience

General Experience - 3 to 6 years

Certifications

Travel

Less than 25%

Workstyle

Hybrid

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. 

We expect our associates at all levels to:
•  Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
•  Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
•  Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
•  Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
•  Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates.  When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. 

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