Software Developer, AVP

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and support secure, enterprise-grade applications using modern Java technologies. The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on experience with Spring Boot, microservices, API development, and certificate-based service-to-service security.

Must-Have Qualifications

• ·    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• ·    5+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• ·    Java (JDK 17+): Strong proficiency in modern Java development, including language features, concurrency, collections, exception handling, and JVM fundamentals.
• ·    Spring Boot 3+: Extensive experience designing and developing production-grade applications using Spring Boot 3 or later and the Spring Framework.
• ·    mTLS (Mutual TLS): Hands-on experience configuring and supporting mutual certificate authentication for secure API and service-to-service communication, including keystores, truststores, certificate chains, rotation, and troubleshooting.
• ·    REST APIs and Microservices: Proven experience designing, implementing, documenting, and supporting RESTful APIs and distributed microservices.
• ·    Spring ecosystem experience, including Spring Security, Spring MVC, Spring Data JPA, dependency injection, and configuration management.
• ·    Strong understanding of secure coding practices, authentication, authorization, encryption in transit, and secrets management.
• ·    Experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or MySQL, including SQL development and performance troubleshooting.
• ·    Experience developing unit and integration tests using JUnit, Mockito, and Spring Boot testing capabilities.
• ·    Proficiency with Git-based source control, branching strategies, pull requests, and code reviews.
• ·    Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and production support skills.
• ·    Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• ·    Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable Java applications using JDK 17+ and Spring Boot 3+.
• ·    Build secure REST APIs and microservices with mTLS for trusted service-to-service communication.
• ·    Configure and troubleshoot certificates, keystores, truststores, TLS handshakes, and certificate lifecycle issues.
• ·    Collaborate with solution architects, product owners, security teams, QA engineers, and other technology partners.
• ·    Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions.
• ·    Create automated unit and integration tests and contribute to continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
• ·    Investigate production issues, complete root-cause analysis, and implement durable corrective actions.
• ·    Ensure solutions meet security, performance, reliability, maintainability, and operational support requirements.
• ·    Produce clear technical documentation and share knowledge across the engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ·    Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT, API gateways, and complementary API-security controls.
• ·    Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized application deployment.
• ·    Experience with Azure, AWS, or another enterprise cloud platform.
• ·    Experience building CI/CD pipelines argoCD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or a similar platform.
• ·    Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or equivalent solutions.
• ·    Experience with performance tuning, vulnerability remediation, and DevSecOps practices.
• ·    Banking or financial-services industry experience.

Education:

•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or  equivalent in professional experience

The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:

• New York / New Jersey: $100k - $171k

depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.