Software Developer

  Job Title:          Software Developer

Department:     Digital Banking & Channel Technology

Reports To:        Director, Development

Purpose of Job

The Software Developer will be a part of Equitable Bank’s strategic, digital initiatives.  Primary responsibilities include designing, developing and supporting RESTful/SOAP APIs and ETLs solutions for web and mobile online channels.

Main Activities:

• Assess and clarify user experience and requirements (10%)
15. Support experience design, functional requirements and digital product definition by providing technical solutions
16. Analyze and provide feedback to evolve creative designs and functional requirements to define a customer centric solution
17. Contribute to technical/non-functional requirements
• Technology Design (20%)
15. Define an integrated, RESTful/SOAP API or ETL solution design with support from front-end and back-end system teams
16. Create design artifacts using RAML and JSON Schema standards
• API Development (60%)
15. Develop and support Interoperability APIs and MicroService applications
16. Plan and estimate development tasks
17. Participate in daily delivery SCRUMs to ensure Sprint delivery progression and resolution of issues
18. Conduct unit testing on developed code, with automated testing where relevant
19. Develop and maintain comprehensive architecture designs and technical documentation
20. Participate in group and peer code review session
21. Actively involved during QA triage to recommend and provide fixes
• Application Support (10%)
15. Assist incident management teams by troubleshooting and resolving production incidents

Knowledge/Skill Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• Solid knowledge (5+ years) in J2EE/JEE software delivery or software development including multiple frameworks such as Hibernate, Spring MVC, Spring Security, SAML, OAuth, OIC
• 2+ years’ hands-on experience building RESTful/SOAP API solutions
• Experience in API management tools, e.g., MuleSoft API Manager (preferably) or Apigee Edge (nice to have)
• Experience with configuration, deployment and testing of enterprise software applications
• Experience with SQL Server database, SQL and T-SQL
• Experience with bug tracking and collaboration software: Jira, Confluence or similar
• Experience with Unit Testing frameworks and tools (Junit, MUnit or TestNG) and source control software (CVS, SVN, Git or similar)
• Experience working in financial industry and knowledge of banking products is a definite asset
• Self-starter who can take a concept and drive it through to the design and implementation
• Strong oral and written communication skills