• Senior Java Engineer, App Development

    Raymond James Financial, Inc. (St. Petersburg, FL)


    _This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in office 2-3 days a week(10-12 days a month ) at the following office location: St. Petersburg, FL._

    Job Summary:

    As part of the Private Client Group technology team, this Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain on premise applications. Being a Fortune 500 company; this position provides unparalleled job security, along with the opportunity to learn from experienced developers in a fun and encouraging environment. The core team is based out of our headquarters in St. Petersburg, FL (Hybrid).

     

    The perfect candidate is goal & detail oriented and is a passionate developer who is eager to grow and learn. This candidate also exhibits excellent English written and oral communication skills allowing them to clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

    Responsibilities:

    + Support and build the technical solution for a scalable and highly available environment.

    + Design, Engineer and build networking, security, logging, monitoring and persistent storage.

    + Proactively plan capacity monitoring and scaling of platforms and applications – analyzing technical areas for improvement.

    + Participates in software system programming, validation, deployment, and documentation.

    + Responsible for understanding deeply the end to end data requirements, application and service requirements and designing end to end solutions.

    + Participate in the Agile or Waterfall development lifecycle, including daily stand-ups and biweekly sprint planning.

    + Communicate across departments within the company and with business users to solve problems.

    + Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.

    + Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

    + Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

    Skills:

    + Proficiency in Java programming

    + Proficiency in Oracle SQL

    + Java, J2EE development with working knowledge of Spring and ORM (Hibernate preferred), Spring Boot, cache implementations.

    + Experience with Monitoring / APM tools (Datadog, Dynatrace, etc.), and logging tools such as Splunk.

    + Good knowledge of DevOps & collaboration tools: Jenkins, GIT, TFS, Sonar.

    + Ability to:

    + Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions.

    + Clearly convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

    + Use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; recommend or take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.

    + Demonstrate a satisfactory level of technical and professional skills or knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise.

    + Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.

    + Make internal and external clients and their needs a primary focus of action; develop and sustain productive client relationships.

    + Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.