Internship Java Software Engineer Jobs in Massachusetts

Job Summary:
The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is a key player in delivering payments services to financial institutions. They are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to design, develop, and implement complex software solutions, ensuring high-quality standards and compliance with Fed policies.
Responsibilities:
• Serves as a Principal Software Engineer: to design, develop and implement new complex solutions in accordance with FedNow and Fed Standards
• Ensures that the quality of software developed, maintained and enhanced in-house and installed into production is sufficient to prevent the occurrence of catastrophic defects that cause the customer significant problems, missed deadlines, or interruption to the production environment
• Develops software solutions in Java, Spring, Terraform, NoSQL and RDS in the Cloud
• Develop end to end Infrastructure-as-Code solutions in Cloud
• Provides input into strategic and tactical planning of software solutions and software development lifecycle changes
• In addition to being able to engineer across numerous areas of technology, you’ll serve as subject matter expert in one or more areas
• Trains and consults cross functionally within the organization on troubleshooting/resolving highly complex and/or highly time critical problems
• Demonstrates skill dexterity; seeking to continuously adapt and employ new technical skills alongside proven staples
• Ensure compliance with Fed policies, procedures and standards
Qualifications:
Required:
• Deep expertise in Java and proficient knowledge of programming languages (JavaScript, XML, JSON, HTML, CSS etc. Python a bonus)
• Experience with modern Java features like generics, streams and lambdas
• Experience using JUnit 5+ to write integration and unit tests and use its lifecycle interfaces and annotations to handle related setup and teardown tasks
• Understanding of how to use JUnit's extension and lifecycle annotations and interfaces to create tools that enhance its default functionality and monitor test plan execution results
• Experience with Apache Maven or Gradle to handle tasks such as compilation, dependency management, testing, packaging and deployment
• Knowledge of Apache Maven's build lifecycles phases, experience with custom plugin development and how to map a custom plugin's goals to Maven lifecycle phases
• Proficient in Mockito and AssertJ as well as integration testing with @SpringBootTest
• Understanding of object-oriented design principles (ex: SOLID) to create maintainable, extensible code and knowledge of design patterns, inheritance hierarchies, polymorphism, composition over inheritance, effective interface design, encapsulation and immutability
• Comprehensive knowledge of Spring Boot's core fundamentals, including auto-configuration, starter dependencies, and its opinionated approach to application setup that eliminates much of the boilerplate configuration required in traditional Spring applications
• Understanding of dependency injection, the IoC container, bean lifecycle management as well as proficiency in using annotations like @Component, @Service, @Repository, and @Autowired
• Experience with AWS services, and integrating them into an application
• Expertise in building RESTful APIs with Spring Boot, including knowledge of @RestController, @RequestMapping, request/response handling, content negotiation, and exception handling
• Understand data access patterns using Spring Data JPA, including repository interfaces, custom queries, and declarative / programmatic transaction management
• Proficient knowledge of database development (SQL, Oracle, DB2)
• Ideally you’ll have experience with leading edge Cloud technologies, such as Kafka, in-memory and NoSQL databases, messaging platforms, memcache etc
• Proficient knowledge of cloud security for application development and delivery
• Ideally, Infrastructure as Code (IAC); Terraform
Preferred:
• Experience with API Development and consumption and microservices architecture
• Familiarity with database migration tools like Flyway or Liquibase
• Experience using Spring Security to handle security concerns in Spring Boot apps
• Understanding Spring Boot’s various application properties configurations (profiles, YAML vs properties files) and externalized configuration management
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability through Spring Boot Actuator, including custom health checks and metrics
• Proficiency working with XML Schema Definition (XSD) schemas and XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) templates, including XML schema design principles, validation techniques, Java-XML binding via JAXB, namespace management, XSLT processing models, template creation, XPath expressions, and transformation patterns for converting XML to various output formats
• Proficient with unit testing, integration testing between system components, performance testing to identify bottlenecks, soak testing for long-term stability verification and API testing
• Strong interpersonal, teamwork and negotiation skills
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
Company:
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston promotes sound growth and financial stability in New England and the nation. Founded in 1914, the company is headquartered in Boston, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.