Software Developer Senior

CompanyFederal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is part of the nation’s central bank and we’ve provided many opportunities for professional growth during our history.
For twenty-five years in a row, we’ve been named “One of Northeast Ohio’s Best Places to Work” by North Coast 99. This prestigious award honors organizations with outstanding employment practices, including compensation, benefits, training, recruitment, retention, community services, and employee communications.
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Organizational Expectations:
As a Software Developer Senior, you will be responsible for the analysis, design, development, maintenance, and support of complex software solutions for customers across a variety of technology platforms and/or business lines.

General Responsibilities:
•    Works independently, under minimal guidance, to make sound decisions.  No instructions are needed for routine work with only general instructions given for new activities or special assignments.  May refer to established precedents and procedures but does not rely on them for decision making.  Plans, schedules, and arranges own activities to accomplish objectives.  Work is generally only reviewed for completeness.
•    Analyze complex customer needs to recommend, design, and implement solutions and identify potential enterprise or cross-functional solutions.
•    Independently design, code, and test high-quality, secure, software applications at complex scale
•    Ability to engineer complex systems and applications through elegant solutions.
•    Adhere to bank and system software development methodologies and standards. Actively participate in the Agile process and ceremonies. Manage and keep assigned work items up to date.
•    Provide knowledge sharing, feedback, and coaching to team members through practices such as peer code review and pair programming. Take a leading role on complex assignments requiring coordination across developers with a demonstrated ability to work through others.
•    Independently seek knowledge sharing and collaboration opportunities in the bank and system, such as through conference presentations, communities of practice, etc.
•    Incorporate relevant bank and system controls into solutions. Comply with SAFR, DLP, Privacy, audit, and data governance requirements.
•    Promotes innovation by recommending product enhancements, keeping abreast of industry trends in data capabilities, and actively exploring emerging tools and techniques.
•    Performs other duties as assigned or requested

Education and Experience:
•    Associates degree and 7 years of related work experience OR
•    Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of related work experience OR
•    Master’s degree and 3 years of related work experience

Knowledge and Skills:
•    Senior knowledge of development processes, practices, and tools, including Agile Scrum as well as work management tools like Azure DevOps or Jira.
•    Ability to work collaboratively with others.
•    Ability to analyze complex business requirements and processes and clearly communicate solution recommendations to stakeholders.
•    Ability to perform independent research and resolve many technical roadblocks.
•    Contributes to System-wide practice improvements.
•    Strong understanding of modern cloud architectures and services (AWS,Azure,etc).
•    Senior skills with CSS and modern JavaScript/Typescript frameworks
•    Senior skills with Object Oriented languages, DevSecOps, Git, CI/CD pipelines, unit testing tools and methods
•    Experience mentoring/teaching other developers.
•    Ability to contribute to code reviews and lead design sessions.
•    Senior understanding of token-based authentication services (Okta,etc).
•    Senior skills working with relational or NoSQL databases and persistence frameworks.
•    Experience using Typescript and NodeJS for backend development, especially in AWS Lambdas
•    Experience designing, configuring, and troubleshooting GitLab CI/CD pipelines
•    Experience using Docker and LocalStack for development and testing.
•    Experience with Terraform to define infrastructure components, including the use of shared Terraform modules
•    AWS certification or any other relevant certifications preferred
•    Experience building solutions with generative AI would be considered a plus

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions             
This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reserves the right to revise this or any job description at any time. 

Bank’s Ethics Rules and Drug Testing: 
As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland employees must comply with the Bank’s ethics rules which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning or controlling, directly or indirectly, any debt or equity interest in a depository institution or an affiliate of a depository institution. A "depository institution" means a bank, a trust company, or any institution that accepts deposits, including a bank chartered under the laws of a foreign country. In addition, employees (and their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children) may not own shares of mutual funds, unit investment trusts or ETFs that have a policy, as stated in the prospectus, of concentrating in the financial services industry and that have underlying investments in banks or other depository institutions.  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.

In addition, as a condition of employment, candidates must undergo a background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana, prior to hire and for certain safety sensitive positions during employment.  

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Reasonable Accommodation Statement - The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland is committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to [email protected] 

Full Time / Part TimeFull time

Regular / TemporaryRegular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)Yes

Job CategoryInformation Technology

Work ShiftFirst (United States of America)

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