Senior Specialist, Back-End Developer

Overview of the team :

Securities Finance is a collaborative development team with the goal of providing all aspects of security finance services including agency lending, principal lending, cash collateral reinvestment and secured loans. The global team operates in 5 locations including Pittsburgh, New York, UK, India, and Canada. The team provides innovative, resilient and scalable solutions to increase revenue potential, achieve operational efficiencies, and service the business's overall growth strategy. We embrace Agile and Open Source technologies.

Overview of the role :

We are enhancing our teams and are looking for a full stack developer who is focused on quality and details. We are looking for an individual who is excited about growing our business and servicing our clients. The incumbent will have the unique opportunity to enhance sophisticated, high-performance market platforms using the latest technology stack and best software engineering practices. The job holder will participate in the design of logical databases, APIs and microservices as well as developing solutions using Java, PL/SQL, Angular, JavaScript, REST APIs, Kafka, MQ and various scripting languages. In addition, she/he will be responsible for manual and automated testing as well as deployments via our CI/DC pipeline.

Requirements :

• Strong CS fundamentals with problem solving, analysis, troubleshooting, and communication skills
• Highly motivated and self-starter
• Experience building distributed high-performance, high-availability systems
• Hands on experience in Core Java & J2EE skills, Oracle PL/SQL
• Fundamental understanding of RDBMS and database design applications.
• Be able to work in a fast-paced, agile development/project environment
• Experience with RESTFul webservices, Angular, JavaScript, Tomcat, Apache, Kafka
• Experience with of Securities Finance is preferred
• Bachelor's degree in computer science engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
• 7-9 years of experience in software development required;
• Extensive experience with developing and supporting backend environment required.
• Job holder must have broad experience with multi-platform development tools and toolkits
• Job holder must have understanding interdependencies and business impact of future IT plans.
• S/he must have prior lead experience selecting and implementing vendor-specific methodologies and prior consulting experience with structured methodologies.

Consults with internal business groups to provide appropriate application software development services or technical support. Provides application software development services or technical support in more complex situations. May also be responsible for requirements gathering and BRD/SRD preparation. Has thorough knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle. Conducts reviews of the test Plan and test Data. May allocate/ coordinate work within a team/project. The job holder leads the technical design, development and documentation of cross-functional, multi-platform application systems. S/he analyzes, defines and documents requirements for data, workflow, and logical processes and interfaces with other systems. S/he also ensures that expected application performance levels are achieved by coordinating, coding, testing, implementation and documentation. Design and development of backend features and components. Scaling the backend architecture and codebase to support growth. Reducing the level of technical debt of the backend codebase. Programming well-designed, testable, efficient code. Analyze, design and develop tests and test-automation suites. Develop flowcharts, layouts and documentation to satisfy requirements and solutions. Maintain software functionality and currency (technical debt and gain). Actively participate in code reviews. Integrate software components into a fully functional software system. Apply security and privacy principles. Execute full lifecycle software development. Develop software verification plans and quality assurance procedures. Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems. Ensure software is updated with latest features. Participate in deployment process following all change controls. Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms. Provide recommendations for continuous improvement. Active learning engagement. Complete all required mandatory training / policy awareness curricula on time. Use learning tools such as Pluralsight to complete both recommended and aspirational targets set in personal development plans. Demonstrate team work. Leverage existing products/functionality and promote reuse. Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices. Collaborate closely with all the other members of the team to take shared responsibility for the overall efforts that the team has committed to. Collaborate cross-functionally with data engineers, business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions. Utilize local meetups to gain and share knowledge. Compiles documentation written by more senior developers of all procedures used in system. Acts as mentor to junior level engineers. Prior experience with using a specific application development toolkit and knowledge of a backend development language required (i.e. C#, Java) S/he must have knowledge about the functions and features of modern and traditional structured methods for developing applications. Communications and organization skills; team work skills. Contributes to the achievement of area objectives.

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team - one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve - and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.