Software Engineering Associate - Full Stack Developer

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 are 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.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

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 subject matter 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 enhancement of existing software systems and applications, proposing and recommending solutions that solve complex business problems.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop applications in compliance with functional and non-functional requirements
• Construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non-functional requirements
• Follow design and code standards, contributing to continuous improvement discussions
• Create and maintain system documentation
• Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately
• Contribute to the design of components or individual programs
• Provide production support for applications as needed
• Work with subject matter experts reviewing technical designs and specifications
• Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs
• Work with peers to mature ways of working, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Full-stack development
  • Strong experience building enterprise web applications
  • Ability to work across UI, service/API, and backend layers
• Java / Java enterprise development
  • Java and Spring / Spring Boot
  • RESTful services and API development
  • Experience modernizing traditional Java/J2EE applications is particularly valuable
• Modern front-end development
  • React
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • HTML5, CSS, responsive UI development
  • Experience transitioning legacy UIs to modern component-based architectures
• Containers & application modernization
  • Docker / containerized application development
  • Kubernetes or OpenShift/OCP
  • Experience decomposing or replatforming legacy applications into modern architectures
  • Understanding stateless application design, configuration management, and container best practices
• Legacy / WebSphere experience
  • IBM WebSphere Application Server
  • Java EE / J2EE
  • Ability to understand existing legacy systems and incrementally modernize them without disrupting business functionality
• DevSecOps / CI-CD
  • Git
  • Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD tooling
  • Automated build, testing, and deployment pipelines
  • Experience with code-quality and application-security tooling such as SonarQube, Veracode, and Apiiro
• Application security
  • Secure coding practices
  • OWASP vulnerabilities and remediation
  • SAST / DAST / software composition analysis
  • API security, authentication, authorization, and secrets management
  • A mindset of building security into the application rather than addressing it only at release time
• Resiliency & production engineering
  • Designing highly available and fault-tolerant applications
  • Logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability
  • Health checks, graceful failure, retry patterns, timeouts, and circuit breakers
  • Performance troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
  • Experience improving production stability and operational supportability
• Data & integration
  • SQL and relational databases, particularly DB2 or Oracle if applicable
  • REST APIs
  • Messaging/event-driven integration experience
  • Understanding of transaction processing is a plus for the Mutual Funds environment

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.