Backend Software Engineer- (Java/Kafka)

Job Title

Lead Software Engineer

Job Description

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:

As a Lead Software Engineer on the UTC Modernization program, you will lead the transformation of core trade processing systems by modernizing legacy UTC applications into cloud ready, event driven architectures. This role is critical to advancing DTCC's multi year modernization strategy, improving resiliency, scalability, and real time processing capabilities across post trade platforms. You will drive the design and implementation of distributed backend services leveraging Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and relational databases, supporting key functions such as MPID processing, trade validation, and data synchronization across systems. Your work will directly impact the accuracy, timeliness, and stability of trade processing workflows. In addition to hands on development, you will provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and influence architectural decisions, ensuring solutions are aligned with enterprise standards, risk controls, and operational excellence. You will collaborate across squads and platform teams to deliver robust, production grade solutions that strengthen DTCC's role as trusted market infrastructure.

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; escalates 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
• Support development teams, testing, 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:

• Strong backend engineering experience with Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka.
• Hands on experience with Oracle or similar relational databases.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Experience building distributed, event driven, or cloud native applications.
• Experience with Angular for front end development
• Ability to work across the full stack, contributing primarily to backend and messaging driven components while supporting UI work as needed.

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.