Job Description
Job Title: Sr. Full Stack Software Engineer
Location : Jersey City, NJ ( Local)
Exp: 12+ Yrs
Job responsibilities
- Leads end-to-end delivery of full stack solutions using React , Java Spring Boot , GraphQL/REST , and AWS-managed services , from design through production support.
- Drives architecture and design reviews, defining service boundaries, API contracts, data models, and integration patterns.
- Develops secure, high-quality, production-grade code; conducts thorough code reviews; sets and enforces engineering standards.
- Builds and maintains highly available and scalable services with strong operational excellence: reliability, performance, cost awareness, and maintainability.
- Implements and governs authentication/authorization using OIDC/OAuth2 , token validation, scopes/claims, and service-to-service security patterns.
- Establishes robust observability practices (structured logging, metrics, tracing), incident response readiness (runbooks).
- Evaluates vendor and internal solutions (including architectural fit, security posture, scalability, and operability) and guides adoption decisions.
- Partners with Product and UX to deliver outcomes; translates requirements into technical plans and milestones; proactively manages trade-offs.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Minimum 8 years applied full stack engineering experience delivering and operating production systems; experience as a senior/lead capacity (technical leadership, design ownership).
- Financial Services experience
- React expertise: modern React patterns, TypeScript , state management, component design systems, performance optimization, and responsive UI development.
- Java Spring Boot expertise: building APIs, dependency injection, validation, error handling, and performance tuning.
- GraphQL proficiency: schema design, resolvers, federation/composition patterns (where applicable), query performance (N+1 mitigation, caching), and API governance/versioning strategy.
- REST proficiency: OpenAPI-style contract design, pagination/filtering, idempotency, backward compatibility, and consumer-driven API evolution.
- OIDC/OAuth2 : hands-on implementation with JWTs, refresh/access token flows, scopes/claims, secure session patterns, and least-privilege access control.
- AWS experience (hands-on): designing, deploying, and operating cloud-native applications; strong understanding of IAM, networking basics, and operational tooling (logs/metrics/alarms).
- Data layer expertise:
- AWS Aurora PostgreSQL : advanced SQL, indexing, query optimization, migrations, and transactional design.
- AWS Neptune : gremlin, graph modeling, query patterns, and performance considerations for graph workloads.
- Event-driven systems:
- AWS Kafka (MSK) : topics/partitions, consumer groups, schema evolution, ordering/at-least-once semantics, idempotency, retries/DLQs, and operational monitoring.
- CI/CD and quality:
- Strong Git practices, automated testing (unit/integration/contract/e2e), code quality gates, and release confidence practices (feature flags, progressive rollout where applicable).
- AI-assisted engineering (MUST) :
- Demonstrated proficiency using Claude Code and/or GitHub Copilot to accelerate development, debugging, refactoring, test generation, and documentation-while ensuring correctness, security, and maintainability (e.g., validating outputs, avoiding sensitive data leakage, and adhering to team standards).
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation/CDK) and deployment automation patterns.
- Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, ECS/EKS) depending on platform direction.
- Advanced security practices: threat modeling, OWASP Top 10 mitigation, secrets management, dependency hygiene.
- Experience defining platform standards: API governance, event contracts, service templates, and reliability SLOs/SLIs.
- Prior experience integrating with Oracle HCM.
Job Tags
Local area