Software Engineer, Lead - Vice President

Mufg Bank,
Hoboken, NJ
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.



Job Summary:


In this role you will lead software engineers and be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining high-quality, scalable, and secure applications for our Next-Generation banking products using Java and related technologies such as Gen AI. This role drives collaboration with cross-functional teams to define the business requirements, design technical solutions and ensure delivery of overall software systems. This Lead Java Developer works across full development lifecycle, including analysis, coding, testing, debugging, deployment, and ongoing support.



Responsibilities:



  • As IT Lead, provide strong leadership and influencing skills to collaborate with all stakeholders and IT partners to promote state-of-art technology solutions and implement end-to-end project deliverables.
  • Collectively review Business Requirements and develop Functional Design and Detailed Design for review and seek sign-off with all stakeholders.
  • Undertake system design and coding to define architecture, data models, and technical specifications and develop quality code following industry and organizational best practices.
  • Design, develop and maintain JAVA/J2EE platform applications, sprint boot based microservices, integration and message-driven architecture with API, MQ, Kafka.
  • Integrate third-party vendor solutions and collaborate with vendors to integrate data exchanges and resolve issues.
  • Support application build and deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and monitor, troubleshoot production issues of Kubernetes pods for stability.
  • Participate in DR exercise and provide off-hours or weekend support during critical releases, maintenance windows and urgent production incidents.
  • Develop thorough knowledge of complex application design and programming activities in the latest related technologies
  • Strong commitment to application securities including SSL/TLS certificates and manage timelines, deliver quality to meet agreed SLA's.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate findings clearly and effectively to wide variety of audiences including senior management


Qualifications / Work Experience



  • 5+ years of experience with financial industry and preferably in banking environment.
  • 8+ years of experience in leading project end-to-end delivery and driving through Agile development cycles or waterfall/SDLC development cycles.
  • 5+ years of experience with Cash Management system or Liquidity Management system and thorough understanding of payment initiation, processing, and reporting processes.
  • 8 + years of strong development experience using Tools Java, Hibernate, Spring Boot, React, JavaScript, Typescript, microservices, Angular, CSS, HTML, SOAP/REST API , Custom flat files, csv, XML/JSON APIs.
  • Strong knowledge with wire, ACH payments, check processing, and closely worked with banking operations to investigate customer issues, and trouble shoot system issues.
  • Experience with Web Applications deployed in WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, or Kubernetes in internet facing settings.
  • Strong experience in batch programming using scripts and Autosys Job scheduling, testing, and processing
  • Strong experience in SQL and Oracle database. Expertise in creating tables, stored procedures, PL/SQL, Sql Agent Jobs and Reporting.
  • Strong background in CI/CD, cloud-native architecture.
  • Experience in banking, financial service industry. Good understanding of Banking transmission formats (NACHA, ISO20022, BAI2) .
  • Extensive experience of on-prem Kubernetes, OpenShift infrastructure and major public cloud offerings such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform.
  • Knowledge of vendor products such as Bottomline Technology Digital Banking platform, ACI Worldwide Online Banking, Finastra Cash Management platform experience is a plus.


Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience.


Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience


"Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.


The typical base pay range for this role is between $145K - $182K 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.


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.
Posted 2026-03-07

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