Java Software Engineer

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This role will focus on Commercial Payments, Lockbox Production Support, and high availability solutions for the entire lockbox lifecycle.

An individual filling this role should be comfortable working within an Agile team, leading discussions with both business and technology partners, and able to clearly articulate possible issues as well as solutions.The Software Engineer is engaged in best practice development initiatives, provides thoughtful leadership, and ability to adapt to ever-changing technology and business environments.

Essential Job Functions:

• Owns the development, implementation, assessment, and support of one or more components of an environment, application, or platform.
• Independently develops clean, maintainable, testable code for work assigned; performs peer code reviews.
• Designs solutions for the overall performance, and availability and actively works resolution of system and client experience impacts for one or more environments, applications, or platforms.
• Strong technical expert on the team
• Advocates for new technology and improvements.
• Assists in the development of strategies for the full software development life cycle of new and emerging technologies and make recommendations regarding selected technologies and demonstrates the viability.
• Creates technical documentation, specifications, and project artifacts for developing code
• Identifies and develops potential standards and best practices.
• Create/Enhance Architecture Diagrams for each capability.
• Support off-hours monthly releases and on-call as needed.
• Actively participate in various Agile ceremonies such as Refinement, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, etc.

Required Qualifications:

• Education/Certifications: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required
• Experience: 2+ years of application development experience
• Possess strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience or understanding of the following software frameworks/concepts: Java (17+)/Spring Boot, GCP; Apigee.
• Experience or understanding with the following tools & technologies: GitLab, GIT, Jira, and Confluence.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery environment, utilizing automated testing, as well as Test Driven Development
• Passion for technology and learning new tools and frameworks based upon project work.

Competencies and Skills:

Working knowledge of the following:

• Values and practices that align customer needs and satisfaction as primary considerations in all business decisions and ability to leverage that information in creating customized customer solutions.
• Understanding of the importance of inter-team collaboration in breaking down silos and achieving business results; ability to lead employees from various functions to communicate, coordinate work across divisions, and collaborate in solving problems as one team.
• Effective influencing tactics and strategies; ability to impact decisions within and outside own organization.
• Emerging technologies: ability to design, apply and evaluate new information technologies for business environments.
• Basic activities and deliverables of application design; ability to utilize application design methodologies, tools and techniques to convert business requirements and logical models into a technical application design.
• Software reliability management: ability to develop and use principles, methodologies and metrics that increase software product performance and reliability.

Extensive knowledge of the following:

• Quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support an environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
• Approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Software development life cycle; ability to use a structured methodology for delivering and managing new or enhanced software products to the marketplace.
• Software development tools and activities; ability to produce software products or systems in line with product requirements.
• Production applications: ability to monitor application functions and resolve issues to maintain optimal conditions for system applications.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This position is eligible to earn a base salary in the range of $71,000 to $122,000 annually depending on location and job-related factors such as level of experience. Compensation for this role also includes eligibility for short-term incentive compensation and deferred incentive compensation subject to individual and company performance.

Please click here for a list of benefits for which this position is eligible.

Key has implemented a role-based Mobile by Design approach to our employee workspaces, dedicating space to those whose roles require specific workspaces, while providing flexible options for roles which are less dependent on assigned workspaces and can be performed effectively in a mobile environment. As a result, this role may be Mobile or Home-based, which means you may work primarily either at a home office or in a Key facility to perform your job duties.

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