Principal Software Engineer

Jersey City, NJ, United States

Job Description

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive

Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location

Pension / Retirement benefits

Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The impact you will have in this role:

The Development family is responsible for creating, designing, deploying, and supporting applications, programs, and software solutions. May include research, new development, prototyping, modification, reuse, re-engineering, maintenance, or any other activities related to software products used internally or externally on product platforms supported by the firm. The software development process requires in-depth domain expertise in existing and emerging development methodologies, tools, and programming languages. Software Developers work closely with business partners and / or external clients in defining requirements and implementing solutions.

The Software Engineering role specializes in planning, documenting technical requirements, designing, developing, and testing all software systems and applications for the firm. Works closely with architects, product managers, project management, and end-users in the development and improvement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that solve sophisticated business problems.

Your Primary Responsibilities: Act as a technical expert on one or more applications used by DTCC

Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements

Partner with Infrastructure to identify and deploy efficient hosting environments

Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues

Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards

Align risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to supervise and mitigate risk; calls out appropriately

Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs

Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs, and participate in the construction and functional testing

Support development teams, testing, troubleshooting, and production support

Build applications and construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non-functional requirements

Work with peers to mature ways of working, continuous integration, and continuous delivery

**Note: Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, or related field

8-10 years or related experience.

Talents Needed for Success: Passion for technology, a curious mind, and an entrepreneur attitude.

Expert in back-end and front-end application development.

Hands on experience in software development using Design Patterns, Java, typescript, Java EE, Spring Boot, Angular 8+, JMS, REST API, PL/SQL

Familiar developing and running applications in Windows and Linux environments

Demonstrable experience in using CI/CD tools especially GIT, Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Jira

Experience using the following development tools: Visual Studio, IntelliJ, or Eclipse.

Proven track record with middleware like IBM MQ, Solace, tomcat, liberty server, WebSphere, WebLogic or JBoss application servers.

In-depth knowledge of relational databases including DB2 or Oracle.

Proficiency in different phases of the system development life cycle including project planning, analysis, design, development, and testing

Solid focus on software testing with Junit, Mockito, Jasmine, Karma.

Familiarity with different software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban)

Nice to have skills: Experience with AWS (EC2, Kinesis, Route53, S3, CloudWatch) is preferred

Experience with Kafka/Solace is a plus.

Experience in Financial industry a plus

Experience with Snowflake a plus

Experience in Mainframe is a huge plus

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

DTCC safeguards the financial markets and helps them run efficiently, in times of prosperity and crisis. We are uniquely positioned at the center of global trading activity, processing over 100 million financial transactions every day, pioneering industry-wide, post-trade solutions and maintaining multiple data and operating centers worldwide. From where we stand, we can anticipate the industry's needs and we're working to continually improve the world's most resilient, secure and efficient market infrastructure. Our employees are driven to deliver innovative technologies that improve efficiency, lower cost and bring stability and certainty to the post-trade lifecycle.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

The IT SIFMU Delivery Department supports core Clearing and Settlement application delivery for DTC, NSCC and FICC. The department also develops and supports Asset Services, Wealth Management & Insurance Services and Master Reference Data applications.