Application Developer II
Veterans Sourcing Group
Pittsburgh, PA
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JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Pittsburgh, PA
POSTED
30+ days ago
Job Title: Senior Java Full Stack Engineer
Location: 500 Grant St, Floor 28, Pittsburgh, PA 15258
Duration: 6 Months Contract to hire
Interview Process: 1st Technical Video Interview & 2nd of interviews including a coding assessment and onsite interview
Hiring Manager: Hari Prasad Sekar
Must have skills:
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Nice-to-Haves:
Location: 500 Grant St, Floor 28, Pittsburgh, PA 15258
Duration: 6 Months Contract to hire
Interview Process: 1st Technical Video Interview & 2nd of interviews including a coding assessment and onsite interview
Hiring Manager: Hari Prasad Sekar
Must have skills:
- Java, Angular
- Database: Oracle, SQL Server
- DevOps, CI/CD
- Messaging services (e.g., Kafka, MQ)
- Any cloud platform for app engine
Job Description:
- We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the end-to-end development and maintenance of critical applications that power Banking Business.
- This role combines hands-on technical leadership with delivery execution, platform resiliency, team development, and stakeholder engagement. The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer who thrives in complex, regulated environments and can drive modern engineering practices to deliver secure, resilient, and scalable software.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end software delivery: requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, and post-release support across multiple applications and services
- Own platform resiliency: vulnerability management, compliance to enterprise resiliency initiatives, root-cause analysis, problem management, and continuous service improvement
- Modernize and maintain applications: reduce technical debt, improve code coverage, manage dependency hygiene, and execute structured refactoring plans
- Champion secure SDLC: ensure code quality, security scanning/remediation, secure configurations, and compliance in partnership with security and risk teams
- Drive DevOps excellence: automate CI/CD pipelines, environment provisioning, and release management with robust rollback strategies
- Architect for scale and resilience: design modular architectures, APIs/microservices, caching strategies, data integrations, and performance tuning
- Manage stakeholder relationships: collaborate with product owners, operations, business stakeholders, and cross-functional partner teams to prioritize and deliver outcomes
- Mentor and grow engineers: provide technical guidance, code reviews, career coaching, and cultivate a high-performing, inclusive engineering culture
- Govern change and risk: lead change advisory processes, manage regulatory/controls expectations, and maintain audit-ready documentation and evidence
Qualifications:
- 10 years of experience in software engineering with significant responsibility for production systems
- Proven experience owning both build (development) and run (maintenance/operations) for business-critical applications
- Strong background in full-stack engineering (e.g., Java, Node.js/TypeScript, Python; modern front-end frameworks such as Angular)
- Experience with API design, microservices, event-driven architectures, data integration, and messaging (e.g., Kafka, MQ)
- Hands-on with cloud platforms and containerization (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker), or private cloud equivalents
- Expertise in CI/CD tooling, testing strategies (unit, integration, performance), observability (logs, metrics, traces), and feature flagging
- Solid understanding of application security, secrets management, IAM, and vulnerability management
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills
Nice-to-Haves:
- Exposure to AI/ML-enabled features, data pipelines, or analytics platforms
- Experience in data warehousing with Snowflake, orchestrating workflows in Airflow, and implementing modular analytics pipelines with dbt (including CI/CD for dbt, testing, and documentation)
- Familiarity with regulated financial environments and control frameworks is a plus
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