Java Engineer

CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of Chicago

What we Do:
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, FedNowSM, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services. We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization. Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.
We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission. Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation. To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.
Job Description:
As a Java Engineer you will contribute, as a member of the Development Team, throughout each phase of the software development lifecycle, including contributing to technical proof of concepts, assisting in designs, implementing of systems according to standards, and creating automated tests. You will work under close supervision on technical tasks of high complexity of medium to large scale utilizing pre-established standards and best practices and will at times mentor members of the team.
You will not have any direct reports.
This role is titled internally “Software Engineer”.

Your Responsibilities:

• Develop high quality code that has minimal interruption to the production environment and helps meets project deadlines

• Document and contribute to solution designs in a team setting and seeks feedback from the team during design sessions

• Communicate regularly on the progress of work products and deliverables to management and other members of the team during the daily standup and design sessions

• Participate in peer review sessions and leads by example on how to critique technical deliverables

• Document technology standards and best practices and ensures adherence to these standards

• Conduct analysis of application and database performance, reviews log files, troubleshoots, and monitors applications in partnership with the application support team

• Assist with implementing reliable automated test cases to ensure application quality and stability in partnership with Quality Engineers

• Assist with the responsibilities of other team members as business needs change including that of a quality assurance professional or product analyst

Your Background:

• BS, in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).

• 2 to 4 plus years of experience in software design and web development

• Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication abilities, including presentation skills

• Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities

• Strong programming skills in object-oriented languages, Java is preferred

• Proficient knowledge of at least one Unix or Unix variant system

• Familiarity with at least one relational database system (Oracle is preferred)

• Experience with Spring, MVC, Java Script, Ajax, ORM, and web services is very helpful

• Experience with build automation and code repository tools (i.e. Jenkins, Git, Maven, etc.)

• Familiarity with SQL, database object creation, and stored procedures

• Understanding of agile software development methodologies and the differences from waterfall methodologies.

What we offer:

• The expected starting salary range for this position is between $111,400 and $131,800 annually in addition to annual performance-based discretionary bonuses. Final salary and offer will be determined based on the applicant’s relevant experience, skills, internal equity, and alignment with geographic and other market data.                                                               

• The Chicago Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here: https://www.chicagofed.org/careers/thebenefits 

• A continuous learning environment with opportunities to gain new skills and grow your career. 

Additional Requirements:

• Hybrid Work: Candidates that live near one of our Reserve Bank locations will be provided some work from home flexibility. Rules for hybrid work arrangements differs from Bank to Bank and should be discussed during the interview process.

• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

• This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take approximately two months to be completed. The screening covers areas such as education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reaches out to your references and people that know you well.

• As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago employees must comply with the Bank’s ethics rules, which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning securities, such as stock, of banks or savings associations or their affiliates, such as bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting, who can provide you contact information for our ethics official if necessary.

• This document indicates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. An employee's responsibilities, tasks, and duties might differ from those outlined in the job description, and other duties, as assigned, are a part of the job. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reserves the right to modify the elements of this job description, as business needs require.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.

Full Time / Part TimeFull time

Regular / TemporaryRegular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)Yes

Job CategoryInformation Technology Family Group

Work ShiftFirst (United States of America)

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