FRFS Lead Full Stack Software 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.

As a FRFS Lead Full Stack Software Engineer you will work as part of the team implementing mission critical distributed applications.

You will have strong experience with developing applications using the J2EE, AWS Serverless and Single page application architecture.
You will be responsible for building distributed applications based on the established FRB system architecture and will be involved in the entire delivery life cycle as part of an Agile SCRUM team.
This position is considered advanced level and performs work of moderate to high complexity.

You will work under general supervision and may lead some efforts autonomously.

This role is posted internally as “Lead Software Engineer”.

Your Responsibilities:


* Full stack lead developer, who understands and develops the end to end application. 


* Develop moderately complex to complex systems, applications, and solutions that may have a technology or platform impact.


* Develop high-quality code that minimizes disruptions to the production environment and meets project deadlines for smaller/mid-sized projects.


* Code applications using a disciplined development process and follows security best practices, performs code documentation, sources code versioning, and maintenance.


* Design and implement Continuous Integration (CI)/continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD) pipelines to improve software development efficiency and quality.


* Perform reliable automated test cases to ensure application quality and stability in partnership with Quality Engineers, reducing the risk of errors and downtime.


* Lead the installation, configuration, upgrades, migration of software, systems, and resources in various environments and ...