TOP Software Engineer

Company
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

When you join the Federal Reserve-the nation's central bank-you'll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We dedicate more than $1 billion to technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we're building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Important Information

• United States citizenship is required for this position.
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization.
• This is a Hybrid position, with a minimum on-site requirement.

About the Role

• Successful candidate will be a team-oriented Software Engineer with experience and eagerness to work on application development of a multifaceted Treasury application using CI-CD deployment tools, data management, and information security best practices.

Key Activities

• Work in an agile and collaborative environment to the design, implementation, testing of a cloud financial application.
• Performs peer reviews using software engineering principles, patterns, and development guidelines.
• Partners with customers in the development of innovative solutions that achieve business goals.
• Work closely with product owners to define business feature requirements.
• Reviews and analyzes business and technical requirements and implements technical solutions to meet those requirements.
• Provides troubleshooting, root cause analysis for supported products and environments.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Typically requires at least 6 years of relevant Software Development experience.
• Bachelor's degree specializing in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or a closely related field, from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience. Intermediate understanding of subject.
• Experience with Angular, Java, Spring (Boot, MVC & Batch) and API.
• Performs most work independently with general supervision and direction.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, critical thinking, and self-learning skills.
• Contributes to product planning meetings and provides inputs on system options, risk, cost vs. benefits, and impacts on business processes and goals.
• Works closely with solution Leads to assure all systems and solutions are in line with IT strategy and met with security requirements.
• Write unit tests and integration tests to verify functionality and ensure code quality.
• Perform the peer code review with peers to ensure high quality of codes and implement best practices and standards.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to write application code and automation scripts in a thoughtful, abstracted, and organized way.
• Experience with Git/GitLab, SQL, Python, Terraform, Linux, and containerization.
• Design, build, and configure cloud financial front-end and backend processes to meet business requirements using AWS services (Lambda, Aurora Postgres, Step Function, ECS and more).
• Proficiency in working with relational database such as Postgres, Oracle, etc.
• Strong REST API development experience in a cloud environment, e.g. AWS
• Understanding of end-to-end modern agile software development.

Additional Information

• Location(s):
  
  • Hybrid - Kansas City, Denver, Oklahoma City, Omaha
  • Remote Eligible - No
  • Current full-time remote employees of the 10th district are eligible to be considered.

• Salary:
  
  • $81,400 - 122,100 / Experienced Level
  • $100,400 - $150,500 / Senior Level
  • Final offers are determined by factors including the candidate's qualifications, internal alignment considerations, district assignment, and geographic location.
• Screening Requirements: United States citizenship is required for this position. This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while preforming the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take up to a couple of months to be completed. You can begin work before the screening is completed; however, continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results. The areas screened may include education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reference checks.
• Sponsorship: The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

About Us

• Total Rewards & Benefits
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
• Who We Are
• What We Do

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Full Time / Part Time
Full time

Regular / Temporary
Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes

Job Category
Information Technology

Work Shift
First (United States of America)

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