Lead Software Engineer

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits:
 

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:
 

Your Primary Responsibilities:
 

• Act as a technical expert on one or more applications utilized by DTCC
• Work with the Business System Analyst to ensure designs satisfy functional requirements
• Partner with Infrastructure to identify and deploy optimal hosting environments
• Tune application performance to eliminate and reduce issues
• Research and evaluate technical solutions consistent with DTCC technology standards
• Align risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalate appropriately
• Apply different software development methodologies dependent on project needs
• Contribute expertise to the design of components or individual programs, and participate in the construction and functional testing as well as troubleshooting, and production support
• Create applications and construct unit test cases that ensure compliance with functional and non-functional requirements
• Work with peers to mature ways of working, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Proven track record designing, developing, and delivering enterprise‑grade applications using Enterprise Java. 
• Strong understanding of application security, transactional processing, scalability, and high‑resiliency system design. 
• Expertise with Spring ecosystem: Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Kafka, and Maven multi‑module projects.
• Hands‑on experience with event‑driven architectures, including Apache Kafka and high‑throughput message processing. 
• Strong knowledge of Redis for caching and data access patterns. 
• Experience implementing effective caching strategies using Redis and Spring Cache.
• Deep experience with Aurora PostgreSQL, including performance tuning and schema design. 
• Hands‑on expertise with Liquibase for database versioning and migrations. 
• Knowledge of database partitioning and data scalability strategies.
• Strong understanding of cloud architectures and methodologies (IaaS, PaaS). 
• Hands‑on experience with containerization and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Helm charts. 
• Experience designing and supporting multi‑region, highly available deployments. 
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, automation, and cloud management tools.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, using tools such as Jira. 
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills. 
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and apply them effectively. 
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, dynamic, and highly regulated environment.

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.