Principal Java DeveloperDes Moines, Iowa (Hybrid)Schedule: 4 Days Onsite | 1 Day Remote
A well-established financial institution is seeking a
Principal Java Developer to provide hands-on technical leadership across a portfolio of enterprise applications. This is the highest-level individual-contributor engineering role on the application-development team and is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, mentoring developers, and influencing architecture without moving away from hands-on technology.
This is a direct-hire position located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The role follows a hybrid schedule requiring four days per week onsite and one remote day.
What You Will Do- Design and guide enterprise application solutions using Java and the Spring ecosystem.
- Identify gaps in the current technical landscape and drive improvements.
- Provide architecture and solution-design leadership across concurrent projects.
- Mentor developers and help improve the team's overall technical maturity.
- Review technical approaches, code, integration designs, and engineering standards.
- Develop and support RESTful services, microservices, and data-driven applications.
- Design secure authentication and authorization solutions.
- Lead integrations involving APIs, message queues, and third-party applications.
- Help teams balance immediate delivery needs with long-term architecture and maintainability.
- Serve as a senior technical escalation point when the Application Development Manager is unavailable.
- Support critical production applications and participate in an approximately one-week-in-ten on-call rotation.
- Collaborate with business, product, architecture, security, vendor, and engineering stakeholders.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field with at least 10 years of relevant experience, or at least 12 years of equivalent professional experience.
- Deep experience developing enterprise applications with Java 8 or later, preferably Java 11+.
- Strong experience with the Spring ecosystem, RESTful web services, and JPA/Hibernate.
- Architecture or solution-design experience, including authentication and authorization.
- Experience with microservices and message-based application integration.
- Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, or guiding developers.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, application architecture, and the software-development lifecycle.
- Experience with automated testing, builds, integration, and deployment.
- Experience working with CI/CD and release-management practices, preferably using GitLab.
- Experience with SQL and data-driven application design.
- Ability to work independently, switch between priorities, and make sound technical decisions with limited supervision.
- Willingness to work onsite four days per week and participate in on-call support.
Additional Technical ExperienceExperience with several of the following is beneficial:
- Java EE
- Spring Boot
- Hibernate
- JUnit 5
- Mockito
- XML
- SQL
- JavaScript
- Angular
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- HTML and CSS
- Bootstrap or Foundation
- Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall delivery methods
Preferred Experience- Banking, financial services, insurance, investment management, or another regulated industry.
- Implementation or integration of third-party enterprise applications.
- Experience with financial platforms such as SimCorp, Principia, MarkitWire, or comparable systems.
- Production support and after-hours incident resolution.
What Makes This Opportunity DistinctiveThis role offers the opportunity to remain technically hands-on while operating as a trusted technical leader. You will have significant influence over solution quality, engineering standards, developer growth, and the future direction of the application landscape, without assuming direct people-management responsibilities.
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