Job DescriptionThe Impact You Will Have in This RoleAt DTCC, your work will directly contribute to the stability, resiliency, and efficiency of the global financial markets. As the industry's premier post-trade market infrastructure, DTCC processes and safeguards trillions of dollars in securities transactions annually.
As a
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer, you will play a key role in modernizing mission-critical platforms that enable the secure, reliable, and high-volume movement of business transactions across DTCC's enterprise ecosystem. Leveraging technologies including
Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kafka, Angular, React, Docker, and Kubernetes, you will design and build cloud-native applications, scalable microservices, modern user experiences, and real-time event-driven solutions.
This is an opportunity to solve complex engineering challenges at enterprise scale, influence technical design decisions, and contribute to a multi-year cloud and application modernization journey. If you're passionate about building highly scalable, resilient, and secure platforms that power global financial services, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while accelerating your technical growth.
Your Primary Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence - Lead the design, development, and support of full-stack applications utilizing Java, Spring Boot, Angular, React, and AWS.
- Drive application architecture, technical design reviews, engineering standards, and software development best practices.
- Champion engineering excellence through mentorship, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance across teams.
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and engineering practices that improve platform capabilities and developer productivity.
Cloud-Native Application Development - Design and implement scalable microservices, REST APIs, and distributed systems.
- Build cloud-native applications leveraging AWS services and containerized technologies.
- Develop reusable frameworks, enterprise integration solutions, and shared platform capabilities.
- Deliver modern, intuitive user experiences that improve usability and operational efficiency.
Event-Driven & Platform Engineering - Design and develop event-driven architectures utilizing Kafka and related messaging technologies.
- Implement highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient application services.
- Support enterprise transaction processing platforms requiring high throughput, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Develop solutions that ensure transaction integrity, reconciliation, auditability, and operational control.
DevOps, Reliability & Operational Excellence - Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.
- Implement monitoring, observability, alerting, resiliency, and recovery capabilities.
- Optimize performance, scalability, security, and availability across distributed environments.
- Support applications throughout the software development lifecycle, including production support and continuous improvement initiatives.
Collaboration & Delivery - Partner closely with Product Owners, Architects, Platform Engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver strategic technology solutions.
- Collaborate effectively within Agile teams across global locations.
- Translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable technical solutions.
- Contribute to strategic modernization initiatives and enterprise technology roadmaps.
Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and supporting enterprise-scale software applications.
- Proven experience leading complex technical initiatives and delivering scalable technology solutions.
Talent Needed for SuccessFull Stack Engineering - Deep expertise in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Security, and Hibernate.
- Strong experience building modern front-end applications using Angular and/or React.
- Proficiency with TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Hands-on experience developing RESTful APIs, microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience building highly scalable, high-performance enterprise applications.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, and software architecture best practices.
- Experience with Apache Kafka or Confluent Kafka.
Cloud & DevOps - Experience developing cloud-native applications on AWS, including EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, Lambda, and related services.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and containerized application deployments.
- Experience with Git, Bitbucket, Maven, Jenkins, Nexus, Jira, and CI/CD automation.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, DevOps practices, and continuous delivery principles.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and automation practices is preferred.
Data & Platform Engineering - Strong SQL, database development, and performance tuning experience utilizing Oracle or DB2.
- Experience working with enterprise integration, messaging, and transaction-processing systems.
- Knowledge of reconciliation processes, operational controls, audit frameworks, and data integrity solutions.
- Understanding of observability, monitoring, resiliency engineering, capacity planning, and operational readiness practices.
- Strong knowledge of secure coding principles, application security, and software engineering best practices.
Leadership & Professional Skills - Ability to influence technical direction and drive architectural decisions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and foster collaborative, high-performing teams.
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments managing multiple priorities and complex technical challenges.
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications - Experience with Spring Cloud and cloud-native design patterns.
- Experience with IBM MQ, Solace, or other enterprise messaging technologies.
- Experience with Python or automation development.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar tools.
- Experience supporting large-scale, high-volume, mission-critical transaction processing platforms.
- Experience working across mainframe, distributed, and cloud-native ecosystems.
- Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, Kiro, or similar technologies.
- Financial Services, Capital Markets, FinTech, Payments, or other highly regulated industry experience.
- Financial Services, Capital Markets, FinTech, or experience working in highly regulated industries
The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations.
About the TeamServes as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.
