1 day ago
Charlotte, NC, USA or Dallas, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$128k - $153k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of production-quality Java microservices, batch pipelines, APIs, and end-to-end integration solutions.
- Provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, code reviews, mentoring, and development lifecycle guidance.
- Design, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot external customer-facing APIs at enterprise scale.
- Lead containerization and deployment strategy using AWS EKS and CI/CD tooling including Jenkins, Cloudbees, and ArgoCD.
- Validate and stress-test AI-generated code for production quality, security, and reliability.
- Perform maintenance programming, defect correction, production-support incident triage, and observability-driven troubleshooting.
- Collaborate with business analysts, partner integration teams, and downstream data consumers to support financial and insurance platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- At least 5 years of Java development experience required; 7 or more years preferred.
- Deep expertise with Java 17 or later, Spring Boot, and Spring Batch.
- Hands-on experience developing and securing external customer-facing APIs at enterprise scale.
- Experience with AWS EKS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Cloudbees, and ArgoCD.
- Experience with REST API design and integration, including OpenAPI/Swagger and contract-first approaches.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Copilot or Kiro.
- Experience with production-support incident triage and observability tools such as Splunk or Dynatrace.
- Proven ability to provide technical leadership and mentor development teams.
- Python, message-based integration, broader cloud infrastructure, secrets management, authentication chains, financial services or insurance, and workflow orchestration experience are preferred.
- Experience with IBM MQ, Apache ActiveMQ Artemis, Kafka, JMS, AWS ECS, S3, Glue, Lambda, OpenShift, Terraform, CyberArk Conjur, Kerberos, Flowable, or Camunda is preferred.
- Ability to work across technical and business teams and translate strategic platform goals into engineering execution.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including a superior retirement program and health, wellness, and work-life offerings.
- Collaborative in-office work environment.
- Learning experiences and development pathways for associates.
- Additional performance-linked incentive programs may be available depending on the role.
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About Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA)
TIAA is a privately held, not-for-profit financial services organization providing retirement plans, annuities, IRAs, mutual funds, life insurance, 529 plans, and brokerage services to employees and institutions in education, healthcare, and the nonprofit sector. Founded in 1918 and headquartered in New York, it also offers investment management through its Nuveen subsidiary. Its revenue comes from fees on asset management, insurance, and brokerage services.