Description

Overall Experience & Mindset

• Early‑career to developing engineer with 2–4 years of hands‑on experience in full‑stack application development.
• Demonstrates strong fundamentals, willingness to learn client standards, and the ability to grow with guidance from senior engineers.
• Comfortable working in Agile teams, taking ownership of assigned stories and tasks.
• AI tool exposure like Github copilot is a plus but not required.

Technical Expectations

Backend Development (Primary)

• Solid understanding of Java and Spring Boot fundamentals.
• Experience building or modifying RESTful APIs.
• Basic knowledge of microservices concepts (service boundaries, configuration, logging).
• Familiarity with messaging concepts (Kafka/JMS) is a plus, but deep expertise is not required at this level.
• Uses structured logging and understands basic error handling.

Frontend Development

• Working knowledge of Angular or React (components, services, state basics).
• Ability to build simple UI features and integrate them with backend APIs.
• Understanding of basic UI/UX principles and accessibility awareness (at least at a conceptual level).

Database & SQL

• Ability to write basic to intermediate SQL queries:
  • SELECT, JOINs
  • WHERE clauses
  • GROUP BY / ORDER BY
• Understands relational database concepts (tables, indexes, primary/foreign keys).

Development Practices & Tools

• Comfortable using an IDE (IntelliJ, VS Code, or Eclipse).
• Familiar with Git (branching, pull requests, resolving conflicts).
• Exposure to unit testing (JUnit / Jest or similar).
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Willingness to follow DTCC engineering standards, security guidelines, and compliance requirements once onboarded.

Cloud & Platform (Baseline Awareness)

• General familiarity with cloud environments (AWS or similar).
• High‑level understanding of containers (Docker) and platform concepts (OpenShift/Kubernetes) is sufficient.
• No expectation to design infrastructure independently at this level

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree