Java Engineer

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

What we Do:
Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, FedNowSM, Fedwire®, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH® (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services.

We are currently leading a strategic effort to transform FRFS to a national, enterprise-focused organization.

Through our evolved structure, we will meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services more quickly, seek to provide a more robust and unified customer experience across our financial service offerings, and create new career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

We are seeking leaders to set the vision, strategy, values, and priorities that enable FRFS to achieve its mission.

Our leaders must demonstrate a strategic, action-oriented mindset focused on intellectual curiosity, agility, accountability, and the ability to drive innovation through experimentation.

To achieve our vision for a people-focused organization with a strong collaborative and innovative culture, we expect our leaders to champion an inclusive environment and demonstrate our values in how we work and interact with each other and our broader community.

Job Description:
As a Java Engineer you will contribute, as a member of the Development Team, throughout each phase of the software development lifecycle, including contributing to technical proof of concepts, assisting in designs, implementing of systems according to standards, and creating automated tests.

You will work under close supervision on technical tasks of high complexity of medium to large scale utilizing pre-established standards and best practices and will at times mentor members of the team.
You will not have any direct reports.
This role is titled internally “Software Engineer”.

Your Responsibilities:


* Develop high quality code that has minimal interruption to the production environment and helps meets project deadlines


* Document and contribute to solution designs in a team setting and seeks feedback from the team during design sessions


* Communicate regularly on the progress of work products and deliverables to management and other members of the team during the daily standup and design sessions


* Participate in peer review sessions and leads by example on how to critique technical deliverables


* Document technology standards and best practices and ensures adherence to these standards


* Conduct analysis of application and database performance, reviews log files, troubleshoots, and monitors applications in partnership with the application support team


* Assist with implementing reliable automated test cases to ensure application quality and stability in partnership with Quality Engineers


* Assist with the responsibilities of other team members as business needs change including that of a quality assurance professional or product analyst

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