Associate, Application Engineer III

Description

This is an Associate, Application Engineer III role at a financial management firm. Its clients save for retirement, pay for education, buy homes and start businesses.

The team builds and supports applications for client reporting and notifications, and works with colleagues across several offices and countries.

Responsibilities

• Help develop prototypes and contribute to architecture decisions.
• Build strategic systems that distribute client reports and send notifications.
• Provide second-line support for technical and operational problems.
• Work with client support teams to resolve escalated issues.
• Maintain existing application features and improve them.
• Refine business and functional requirements.
• Keep senior team members informed about technology decisions, issues and plans.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in electronic engineering, computer science or a related field, plus 3 years in the offered job or a related occupation.
• 3 years of hands-on experience with object-oriented programming, Java, and enterprise backend and full-stack development, including building applications or services from scratch and scaling them.
• 3 years of experience applying design patterns to write scalable, maintainable code.
• 3 years of experience with Spring Boot, Hibernate ORM, and Maven for build automation and dependency management.
• 3 years of experience with SQL, stored procedures, relational data modeling and relational database design.
• 3 years of experience writing JUnit tests to coverage standards, using mocking frameworks such as Mockito.
• 3 years of experience with Kafka messaging, event-driven designs, modern DevOps practices and CI/CD workflows.
• 2 years of experience with systems-level software in distributed environments.
• 2 years of experience with cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure.

Conditions

For the San Francisco, CA location only, the base salary range is USD $165,131.00 to USD $175,000.00.

Employees in that location are also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Total compensation varies with role, location, firm, department and individual performance, under a pay-for-performance approach.

You must work in the office at least 4 days a week and may work from home 1 day a week.

Some business groups may require more office time, depending on their roles and responsibilities.

The company uses AI in its operations. Candidates may use it to learn and prepare, but interviews focus on your own experience and judgment, and guidance on AI use is provided for each step.

Benefits

• A retirement plan.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Comprehensive healthcare.
• Support for working parents.
• Flexible time off to rest and spend time with the people you care about.