Senior Java Developer - Remote at Edward D. Jones in St. Louis, Missouri

Job Description:

At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 14,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

A typical branch office has one financial advisor who meets with clients face-to-face and one branch office administrator who enhances the team's ability to build deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis and Tempe provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. Edward Jones currently has more branch offices than any other financial services firm, and we continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.

The Tech Compensation team is responsible for critical proprietary and vendor-supported Compensation systems, used daily by our home office associates and over 14,000 branch teams in the US and Canada.  We like to tell our associates, "We make your hard-earned money move fast". 

• Develop integrations for Compensation platform. 


• Create and maintain existing applications utilizing Java batch or modern web technologies such as Spring, REST, and Junit 


• Work with additional open systems technology such as Oracle DB, Linux shell/batch scripting, and Oracle Incentive Compensation E-Business Suite 


• Translate business requirements into system design, work directly with Product/Agile teams, prepare detailed technical specifications, and provide story point estimates 


• Perform tech lead role under minimal direction to design, code, test, debug, and maintain programs 


• Provide system support, including on-call rotation (about 6 times per year), troubleshoot, and resolve complex system issues 


• Provide guidance, training and mentorship to other associates, including performing code reviews, suggesting best practices and following SDLC processes 

• Bachelor's degree (preferred) in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, related field or related work experience


• Minimum of 5 years of experience in software development


• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues and their implications for projects and business decisions, facilitate discussion and resolution of problems, and mentor other technology associates


• Enterprise or solution specific purchased software experience


• Experience with E-Business Suite, Performance tuning and Commission based system is a plus 


• Understand infrastructure architecture – networks, productivity tools, operating systems – and provides input to leaders about the impact of these components  


• Experience/familiarity with CLoud/Saas/COTS applications 


• Understanding of design concepts including microservices + agile practices


• A continuous learner, forward-thinking, open to new processes and technologies


• Someone interested in joining a team that promotes work/life balance while making a difference


• A team player who takes initiative and delivers results