Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Software Engineer to join the Financial Crimes/Fraud Technology team in a Bank. This team supports technology that monitors banking transactions and helps identify potentially fraudulent activity. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building, enhancing, testing, and supporting custom applications and services within a large enterprise banking environment.

This person will work in an Agile development environment and contribute across the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing application support. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and React, and is comfortable working across both front-end and back-end application development.

Main Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, and React.
• Build and enhance custom services that support the Actimize fraud detection platform.
• Participate in Agile development using a two-week sprint model.
• Complete assigned sprint work and deliver features within established timelines.
• Support both front-end and back-end development efforts based on team needs.
• Perform application testing and validation to ensure quality solutions.
• Deploy applications and code changes using GitLab and shared deployment pipelines.
• Troubleshoot issues and support existing applications in the production environment.
• Collaborate with team members to design and implement technical solutions.
• Contribute ideas and improvements to address business and technical challenges within the fraud detection environment.
• Own work through the full development lifecycle, including coding, testing, and deployment.

Must Have Skills

• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands-on Java development experience.
• Hands-on Spring Boot experience.
• React development experience for front-end application development.
• Full-stack development experience across front-end and back-end technologies.
• Experience with GitLab, source control, CI/CD, or deployment pipelines.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle practices, including development, testing, and deployment.
• Ability to work in an Agile environment with sprint-based delivery.
• Experience supporting both new development and ongoing application support activities.
• Ability to work in a corporate or regulated environment where compliance, quality, and development standards are important.

Nice to Have Skills

• SQL experience and ability to query or work with relational data - mainly PostgreSQL (also Oracle SQL, MS SQL, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis)
• Database knowledge or experience with database design/support.
• Python programming experience - (Python for AI/LLM/agentic work)
• Azure cloud experience or familiarity with cloud-based application development.
• Knowledge of AI/ML concepts or Generative AI technologies.
• Experience in banking, financial services, fintech, fraud detection, financial crimes, or transaction monitoring environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise applications in a highly regulated environment.
• Interest in learning new technologies and contributing ideas for process or technical improvements.

Strong problem-solving skills and ability to identify practical solutions to business and technical challenges