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# Java Software Engineer; Team Lead

- **Company:** Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.
- **Location:** McLean, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $114,200.0 - $248,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Automation of Tests, Unit Testing, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Information Systems, Continuous Integration, Persistent Data Structure, Relational Databases, Database Design, Software Design Patterns, DevOps, Integrated Development Environments, Metadata, NoSQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Performance Tuning, Software Architecture, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Software Construction, 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:** May 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ab521b4f5a3970d6

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Training & development?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, Experienced hands-on technical team lead to design, deliver scalable, secure, enterprise-grade solutions. This role requires deep Java expertise with strong knowledge of modern software architecture patterns (microservices, event-driven), cloud-native AWS development, and DevOps/CI/CD proficiency., Backend Development:

 * 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 and NoSQL systems with expertise in data modeling approaches and design patterns for diverse data persistence requirements
 * Experience with OpenSearch and NoSQL databases is highly preferred

System Design & Architecture:

 * System Design & Architecture: system design experience with ability to architect scalable, enterprise-grade document and metadata ingestion, processing, and persistence at scale, * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least 7 years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.
 * Strong system design experience
 * Strong experience in object-oriented development
 * Strong experience with cloud technologies
 * Strong experience in data storage technologies
 * Strong experience in performance tuning and optimization
 * Strong experience in DevOps and CI\CD technologies
 * Strong experience test automation and unit testing
 * Strong experience software security

## Description

Working independently, the Java Software Engineer; Team Lead owns development of software products and works on improving the overall quality of the product throughout the software development life cycle and mentors other Software Engineers., * Designs and develops industry-leading solutions that meet defined quality standards, reliability specifications, and help achieve key strategic objectives

 * Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results
 * Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals
 * Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management

Engineering/Operations Excellence:

 * Helps identify gaps between system components and designs and delivers solutions
 * Implements methods for managing and maintaining the organization's software development environments to ensure software engineers are equipped with the tools and resources necessary to create and validate builds
 * Takes broad perspective to problems and exercises independent judgement in techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results
 * Develops actionable insights from analyzing software development trends, software engineering best practices, and innovative test environment management tools and communicates integration recommendations to management
 * Identifies ways to overcome challenging situations that jeopardize the achievement of business goals, * 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.

Collaboration:

 * Coaches and trains less experienced colleagues in techniques, processes, and responsibilities
 * Integrates the culture of intelligence, integrity, and initiative into team goals and decisions
 * Partners within and across teams to remove barriers and identify shared goals and priorities, 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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