Hybrid Staff Engineer – Java

at EEOC

• Job title: Staff Engineer – Java
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $158,000 - $210,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Staff Engineer developing software applications for financial solutions company. Leading technical projects and mentoring junior team members within a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, documents, tests, debugs, and maintains software product applications.
• Acts as a technical leader on the team, collaborates closely with the Architecture team and with other members of the team to deliver on the team’s backlog.
• Ensures that platform architecture meets our growth, monitoring and alerting goals.
• Leads deep, complex, and high-risk technical projects, and controls the communication around them.
• Collaborates with stakeholders and makes the right trade off decisions.
• Mentors junior team members with guidance around techniques, tools, and best practices.
• Designs and develops features and capabilities to enhance the Early Warning core product offerings.
• Managing source code using Git.
• Querying platform data using SQL-based DBs.
• Working on complex Java Web Services using Spring Boot.
• Tracking sprint work in Jira and documenting complex details and decisions in Confluence.
• Building automated tests alongside sprint work that is integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Able to troubleshoot complex bugs that may arise during development.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Requirements

• Education and/ or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Science Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 10 or more years of related industry experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Java
• Very good debugging, troubleshooting and low-level optimizations skills
• Proficient with Git source control
• Familiarity writing automated tests
• Advanced Proficiency with SQL
• Advanced Proficiency in RESTful service design
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal skills
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and make the right trade off decisions.
• Able to use critical thinking skills and leverage relationships to influence decisions.
• Background and drug screen

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.