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Company

Original Job Post

American Century Investments · 2 days ago

Software Engineer Specialist

Kansas City, MO

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$125K/yr - $155K/yr

3+ years exp

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Responsibilities

You will be part of an application development team that works closely with Investment Management, Compliance, Trading, and Research/Analyst teams to provide technology solutions

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to, application development, systems integration, requirements gathering, documentation, and validation testing of investment applications

You will work with complex data sets to provide solutions with an emphasis on scalability, reuse, and analytic robustness

Closely follow application life cycle standards and procedures

Building relationships with internal business partners and vendors

You, as part of a team, will provide on-call support, and occasional overtime may be required

Qualification

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JavaSpring FrameworkMicroservicesAPIsRESTfulJSONCloud TechnologiesAWSContainersNon-Relational DatabasesBusiness AnalysisRequirements GatheringApplication Development MethodologiesProblem-SolvingCommunicationFinancial Services Industry KnowledgeFixed Income InstrumentsPythonCloud Native SolutionsSQLRelational DatabasesCI/CD PipelineProject ManagementAgile MethodologiesScrumKanbanClient FocusedCourageousAccountableCollaborative

Required

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

3+ years of IT experience developing and leading technology solutions

Experience building applications using Spring Framework (Spring Integration, Spring Boot), Microservices, APIs (RESTful, JSON)

Working knowledge of Cloud technologies (AWS), containers, non-relational databases

Experience working with sophisticated enterprise users to perform business analysis, extract requirements, implement solutions, and provide training and support

Knowledge of formal application development methodologies

Proficiency in the clear expression of ideas both verbally and in writing with business and technical teams

Preferred

Knowledge of the financial services industry, including financial securities, mutual funds, and ETFs

Knowledge of Fixed Income instruments such as Taxable Bonds, Government Bonds, Municipal Bonds, Futures, Derivatives, and FX

Experience working with Python is preferred

Experience developing cloud native solutions is preferred

Experience with SQL and relational database platforms (DB2, Oracle, SQL Server)

Experience building applications using CI/CD pipeline

Knowledge of project management & Agile methodologies, especially Scrum and Kanban

Exhibits the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven, Adheres to the highest ethical standards and business practices, and Supports a culture of compliance