Sr. Java Back End Engineer 182117

The Team

The FinCom Platform Engineering team is building an 8-service Kafka-native financial communications platform targeting Q1 2027 delivery. The team is small, technically ambitious, and AI-native: we apply spec-driven development as a standard practice and use AI-assisted tooling throughout the delivery lifecycle. You will work alongside expert engineers and an Engineering Director in a green field build with direct regulatory and business impact.

Experience

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience delivering production systems.
• Proven ability to own services end-to-end, from design through deployment and operation.

Key

Responsibilities

• Design and implement backend microservices and APIs within established architectural patterns, contributing to those patterns as your experience grows.
• Take ownership of services: write the code, own the tests, ship to production, and stand behind what you deploy.
• Work towards team engineering practices: participate in code reviews, improve test coverage, and flag gaps in pipeline and operational readiness.
• Mentor junior and associate engineers through code reviews, pair work, and direct feedback.
• Apply spec-driven development and AI-assisted tooling as a standard part of how you work.

Required Expertise

• Hands-on experience with Java and Spring Boot for backend microservice development, including RESTful API design and contract-first OpenAPI development.
• Cloud deployment experience with AWS EKS: packaging, deploying, and operating containerized services.
• Event-driven architecture experience with Kafka or similar messaging platforms.
• Delivery pipeline proficiency: source control, CI/CD, containerization, and automated testing.
• Observability: writing structured logs, understanding distributed traces, using dashboards to diagnose production issues.
• Database experience: writing and tuning queries, understanding indexing, choosing the right storage pattern for the problem.

Preferred

• Experience in financial services or a regulated, high-reliability industry.
• Familiarity with enterprise Java frameworks (Spring Boot 4, EJF) and Fidelity platform standards.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tooling (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar) applied as a standard workflow tool.

Skills and Attributes

• Owns outcomes, not just tasks. Tracks what they ship, wants to know if it works, and acts when it does not.
• Strong communication: writes clear tickets, leaves useful comments in code reviews, and flags blockers early.
• Works well with ambiguity at the feature level. Can take a requirement that is not fully defined and figure out what to ask to get it there.
• Builds others up through direct, constructive technical feedback.
• Intellectually curious about new tools and approaches, including AI-assisted development methods.

The Value You Deliver

• Production software that meets the quality bar the team has set: tested, observable, and documented.
• Accelerated delivery by taking services off the plate of senior engineers, end-to-end.
• A higher-quality codebase over time through attentive code review and sustainable engineering practices.
• Junior and associate engineers who grow faster because of working with you.