Senior Java Engineer, Backend Developer
Raymond James Financial, Inc.
**Description**
**Workstyle -** **This position will follow our hybrid work model, we expect the selected candidate to be in office 2-3 days a week at our office location: St. Petersburg, FL**
**Job Summary:**
As part of the Wealth Management technology team, this Senior Java Software Engineer will build and maintain numerous APIs, micro-services to support an application that is critical to the day to day functioning of the financial advisor. The application surfaces rich statistics about a client’s account. 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.
**Essential Duties and Responsibilities:**
* Write clean and maintainable code.
* Debug, improve and maintain existing code.
* Participate in the Agile 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.
**Qualifications**
**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities**
**Knowledge of**
* Understanding of the SDLC lifecycle for Agile & Waterfall methodologies.
* Good knowledge of DevOps & collaboration tools: Jenkins, GIT, TFS, Sonar.
* Experience with deconstructing complex problems into modular simple solutions.
* Strong understanding and discipline around software test approaches.
* Strong sense of dedication and teamwork toward a goal.
**Skill in:**
* Java, J2EE development with working knowledge of Spring and ORM (Hibernate preferred), Spring Boot, cache implementations.
* Spring Boot and experience with database queries in PL/SQL, Functions in Oracle.
* Experience in Reporting frameworks such as Jasper is nice to have.
**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 skill 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 actions; develop and sustain productive client relationships.
* Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.
**Education/Previous Experience:**
* Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business or related degree and three (3) to five (5) years of relevant experience or a combination of education, training and experience approved by HR.
* Experience in Financial Services Industry is nice to have.
Licenses/Certifications:
* None required.
**Job:** Technology
**Primary Location:** US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg
**Other Locations:** US-FL-Clearwater-Clearwater, US-FL-Tampa-Tampa, US-FL-St. Petersburg-Saint Petersburg
**Organization** Technology
**Schedule** Full-time
**Job Shift** Day Job
**Travel** Yes, 5 % of the Time
**Req ID:** 2403115
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