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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Software Engineer - **Company:** Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. - **Location:** Washington, DC, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $97,700.0 - $202,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Algorithm Design, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Automation of Tests, Unit Testing, Cloud Computing, Information Systems, Persistent Data Structure, Data Structures, Relational Databases, Database Design, Software Design Patterns, DevOps, Graph Database, Metadata, NoSQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Performance Tuning, Big O, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Software Engineering, Web Application Frameworks, Data Storage Technologies, Spring-boot, Software Security, Backend, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, AWS Fargate, Graphql, Restful APIs, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Microservices - **Published:** July 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=101ca2c1e32226ed ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 5 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience * System design experience * Strong experience in object-oriented development * Strong experience with cloud technologies * Strong experience in data storage technologies * Experience in performance tuning and optimization * Experience in DevOps and CI\CD technologies * Experience test automation and unit testing * Experience software security * FINRA Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) certification or acceptable industry equivalent certification is required upon hire or within 16 months of the start date of the assigned SIE training cohort ## Description Under minimal supervision, the Senior Software Engineer assists in developing software products and works on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle. Seasoned individual contributor with deep expertise in Java to design, develop, and maintain complex, enterprise-grade applications on AWS through clean, modular, and performant code. Essential Job Functions: * Designs and develops industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives * Works on broad problems of scope that require decision making and creativity * Receives general guidance but work is done independently and impacts team level goals * Defines technical solutions or operational processes to improve efficiency * Possesses a solid understanding and familiarity of systems and processes within job area * Delivers many of the team's goals on time and with a high standard of quality * Preemptively identifies and resolves technical risks before they jeopardize the project. Resolves cross-team dependencies earlier to ensure the successful execution of the project * Demonstrated understanding in computer science fundamentals - Algorithm design, Problem solving, Complexity analysis and data structures Essential Technical Skills: Backend Development: Strong experience in backend development across server-side technologies and architectures. Ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance systems from API layer to data persistence, with deep understanding of modern frameworks (Spring Boot), RESTful and GraphQL APIs, microservices architectures, event-driven architectures, and database design patterns. Data Storage Technologies: Strong experience with modern data storage solutions including relational databases, NoSQL systems, and graph databases, with expertise in data modeling approaches and design patterns for diverse data persistence requirements. System Design & Architecture: System Design & Architecture: Strong system design experience with ability to architect scalable, enterprise-grade document and metadata ingestion, processing, and persistence at scale DevOps & Infrastructure: Assist with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines while architecting and developing cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services, including Lambda, Step functions, SQS, SNS, S3, ECS, Fargate, Aurora, fostering a strong DevOps culture within the team. Engineering/Operations Excellence: * Implements ways to simplify code and infrastructure. Prioritizes tasks that lead to lower system and infrastructure maintenance and migration costs with meaningful and measurable impact * Examines problems from different perspectives and uses evaluation, judgement, and interpretation to select right course of action * Accepts risk and uncertainty of business change as normal * Builds productive and collaborative working relationships with senior internal/external partners to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities * Actively seeks perspectives and works to engage others when communicating * Demonstrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative in day-to-day actions with the team * Avoids blame and solves the right problems, disagreeing and committing when necessary to move decisions forward * Demonstration of FINRA's values * Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA's mission of investor protection and market integrity, FINRA's Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees' investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain, and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse, domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Code's investment and securities account restrictions, and new employees must comply with those investment restrictions-including disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRA's Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice President-by the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA, and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment. You can read more about these restrictions here. As standard practice, employees must also execute FINRA's Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the company's policy on nepotism. 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