Backend Engineer

• Influence many agile development teams through all phases of the Agile development life cycle through SAFe
• Implement new technologies and assist developers as they migrate to new technologies
• Architect applications across the full stack, experience in PCF, Cloud Native Application Architecture, Microservices ecosystem, J2EE, Spring Java, and RESTful APIs are a must.
• Design data models to support complex business processes
• Drive a CI/CD strategy using our Jenkins, Bitbucket, and uDeploy stack.
• Mentor and influence all levels of the team: in this role, you will have the opportunity to influence up and down the chain of command
• Ensure compliance with architecture, security and technology standards set by Synchrony
• Participate in Agile scrums consisting of cross-functional teams
• Lead Agile sprints as the technical expert, including sprint planning, daily standups, backlog grooming sessions, and sprint reviews
• Provide 24x7 on-call support periodically throughout the year

AVP, API Engineer

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable GraphQL services and RESTful APIs.
• Define and enforce API standards, schema design best practices, and versioning strategies.
• Drive decisions around backend frameworks, tooling, infrastructure, and observability.
• Ensure systems are secure, performant, resilient, and maintainable.
• Oversee API lifecycle management, including documentation, testing, monitoring, and deprecation.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a high-performing backend engineering team.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Product, Client Engineering, DevOps, Research, and Architecture teams to deliver aligned solutions.
• Own roadmap planning, prioritization, and execution for backend services.
• Establish engineering best practices for code quality, CI/CD, testing, and deployment.
• Manage technical debt proactively while balancing feature development.
• Drive observability, logging, metrics, and performance monitoring standards.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for backend services.
• Implement reliability practices such as SLIs/SLOs and capacity planning.
• Ensure compliance with security and data governance standards.

Senior Manager, Backend Services

• Responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards and advocating for them beyond your team through writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Marketplace/App Experience

• Design, develop, test, and maintain high-quality software solutions under the guidance of senior engineers and technical leads.
• Participate in all Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Contribute to application enhancements, defect resolution, and performance improvement initiatives.
• Develop and execute unit tests and assist with integration and system testing activities.
• Troubleshoot production and non-production issues and support root cause analysis efforts.
• Collaborate with business partners, product owners, architects, and fellow engineers to understand requirements and develop technical solutions.
• Participate in code reviews and incorporate feedback to improve code quality and maintainability.
• Learn and apply modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, DevOps, automated testing, and secure coding standards.
• Utilize AI-powered development tools and modern engineering practices to improve productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and software delivery.
• Create and maintain technical documentation as required.
• Support cloud modernization and digital transformation initiatives across the MLB IT portfolio.

Associate Software Engineer – Java

• Responsible for setting technical strategy for your team on a year-long time scale, and help your team tie it together with critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborate across teams in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics to ensure technical sustainability, risks and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Act as a force-multiplier for your team through your definition and advocacy of technical solutions and operational processes.
• Take ownership of your team’s operations and availability by ensuring you have the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing and alerting in place to support “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
• Help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Ledger Engineering

• Lead the development of large-scale software applications, ensuring high quality and adherence to our quality-first standards
• Influence critical architectural decisions, ensuring that systems are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with business objectives
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on technical decisions and drive improvements
• Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on best practices and setting technical standards across projects
• Take ownership of technical initiatives, proactively address challenges, and drive improvements based on data reported by support teams
• Advocate for and implement quality assurance practices, ensuring the delivery of robust, high-performance software
• Contribute to additional responsibilities as needed to support the team’s success

Senior Software Engineer, Java

• We are looking for seasoned, detail-oriented engineers with strong technical judgment and an ownership mindset.
• The role is focused on modernization or replacement of existing systems and development of new systems to support financial services operations processes.

C# Server Side Developer

• Support the design, configuration, development, and ongoing optimization of the Windchill PLM platform.
• Translate approved business and functional requirements into technical solutions.
• Support system enhancements, integrations, and validation activities under guidance of senior architects.
• Contribute to project delivery, system stability, and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance with standards.
• Work closely with Business Analysts, Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Engineering and other stakeholders to support implementations.
• Participate in requirements gathering, functional design, configuration, and development, and support validation documentation.

Senior Technical Architect – Developer

• Break down larger projects into individual tasks with the support of tech lead and manager, deliver in multiple phases.
• Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics.
• Create and monitor metrics to support operations and availability of team’s artifacts; engage in “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• Contribute to a sense of community on your team by participating in the interview process and other growth/development activities.

Software Engineer II, Back-end – Card Mgmt, Transaction Processing

• Develop tools that leverage generative AI along with our technology solutions to assemble functional demos of government digital services for a variety of government programs
• Design and implement example applications using our open source platforms that can be demonstrated to potential clients in bids and conferences
• Support project teams in using our platforms and iterate based on their feedback

Software Engineer – Gen AI, Typescript, Python

• With the support of your team’s tech lead and manager, you will break down larger projects into individual tasks, deliver them in multiple phases, and collaborate with others to ensure timely delivery of your work.
• You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating across engineering, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
• You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
• You will contribute to a sense of community on your team by engaging in growth and development activities such as participation in the interview process.

Software Engineer II, Backend – ML Training, Serving

• Contribute to the design and implementation of large-scale backend applications.
• Ensure code quality and support your teammates in maintaining strong engineering standards.
• Build reliable and fault-tolerant systems using message queues (RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.) and implement best practices for scalability and resilience.
• Improve system scalability, reliability, and architectural clarity through thoughtful design and optimization.

Senior Software Engineer – Java

• Develop and maintain Drupal (9 & 10) websites, web applications, and upgrades
• Create and customize Drupal themes using TWIG, CSS, and JavaScript
• Integration with external systems and web services
• Custom Module development
• Ensure Drupal best practices are followed in terms of site architecture, development, and security
• Write efficient, reusable, and scalable PHP code
• Optimize Drupal websites for performance, including caching, and server configurations.

Lead Drupal Full Stack Developer

• Build and operationalize complex data solutions, correct problems, apply transformations, and recommend data cleansing/quality solutions.
• Design data solutions.
• Analyze sources to determine value and recommend data to include in analytical processes.
• Incorporate core data management competencies including data governance, data security and data quality.
• Collaborate within and across teams to support delivery and educate end users on data products/analytic environment.
• Perform data and system analysis, assessment and resolution for defects and incidents of moderate complexity and correct as appropriate.
• Test data movement, transformation code, and data components.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Data Engineer I, TM1, Python, AWS

• You will work on cross-functional teams to build scalable systems for our government -- designing, implementing, and delivering services that millions of Americans depend on.
• You care deeply about working on technology that improves people’s lives, but don’t think technology is always the answer.
• You are passionate about building large-scale systems that are inclusive, well-designed, fast, scalable, and secure, and you'll help set high standards for our teams in terms of simplicity, empathy, and accessibility.
• The Sr. Software Engineer role will be responsible for developing end to end systems for one of Nava's major government partners.
• The objective is to modernize an existing legacy enterprise platform to enable users to have more access to the programs and services that they need.
• This individual will be involved in everything, from strategy and planning through to post-production testing and support.

Software Engineer – Backend, Java

• Lead the design and architect solutions that meet SYF business requirements to deliver business value by enabling rapid innovation through modern software development practices and product delivery through rapid innovation and continuous integration
• In-depth knowledge of algorithms related to data encryption/decryption, tokenization/de-tokenization techniques
• Having experience in software development of systems related to security implementation and protection of data using algorithms related to Elliptical Curve Cryptography, RSA and AES algorithms
• Design and implement continuous integration and continuous delivery processes to deliver applications to production, fostering a culture of continuous process improvement
• Perform Technology Alternate Assessment, create Proof-of-Concept (as necessary)

AVP, Java Development Lead

• Design, develop, and optimize complex T-SQL solutions including large-scale stored procedures, functions, and queries
• Optimize existing SQL code for performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Proactively identify and resolve query performance, indexing, and concurrency issues
• Support schema design, data modeling, and database changes for new features
• Collaborate with application engineers to design and improve data models, database logic, and access patterns
• Develop and maintain database objects, deployment scripts, and repeatable database changes aligned with application delivery needs
• Create and execute unit, integration, and regression tests for stored procedures and database logic to ensure correctness and performance
• Enforce security best practices, including Azure Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) authentication and authorization
• Support audits and compliance initiatives related to HITRUST, and SOC 2
• Lead database development standards, best practices, and documentation across the organization
• Support or contribute to Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) Data Lake architectures using Microsoft Fabric

Senior Database Developer

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary development team, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.
• Drive significant improvements to core systems and business processes to support company/division goals for profit, growth, and customer satisfaction.
• Architect solutions for high application performance, data security, and future scalability.
• Leverage AI/ML Platforms to personalize and optimize delivery to drive engagement and retention.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into effective technical designs.
• Facilitate and participate in technical design discussions.
• Oversee the implementation, unit testing, integration testing, and support of software applications and services.
• Conduct code reviews and peer inspections to ensure code quality and best practices.
• Direct multiple technology projects and teams in support of IT initiatives.
• Develop strategic and tactical plans for technology and people resources to ensure successful completion of large-scale projects.
• Lead technical activities across estimation, planning, design, build, testing, and deployment phases.
• Provide guidance, feedback, and professional development to developers, evaluating performance and identifying strengths and growth areas.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and apply them effectively to solve business challenges.

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