Software Engineer, Assistant Vice President at MUFG in Jersey City, NJ

Job description

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 Description; We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join our dynamic team in the Transaction Banking Technology space. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience working across multiple software platforms, cloud-native technologies, and SaaS solutions, with an interest in applying modern AI-assisted and agentic software development practices. This role involves contributing to the architecture, design, development, integration, and modernization of enterprise systems across various Transaction Banking initiatives. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong technical proficiency, a collaborative mindset, and a commitment to delivering secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available solutions. You will work closely with global cross-functional teams to ensure seamless system integration, platform reliability, and adoption of modern engineering practices across AWS, OpenShift, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled development environments. Key Responsibilities Contribute to technical planning and architectural decisions for mission-critical systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, resiliency, security, and performance. Work closely with stakeholders to understand project requirements, scope, and objectives and translate them into actionable technical solutions and implementation designs. Develop and maintain Java and Spring Boot-based applications and microservices, including REST APIs and event-driven integrations using technologies such as Kafka and IBM MQ. Design and implement cloud-native applications running on AWS and Red Hat OpenShift, leveraging containerized and microservices-based architectures. Design and develop data persistence solutions using relational databases, including PostgreSQL, with an emphasis on database design, SQL optimization, performance, availability, and scalability. Implement performance-tuning strategies and monitor application and platform health using tools such as Splunk and SonarQube, supporting continuous improvement and effective incident resolution. Support system modernization, upgrades, and scalability initiatives spanning legacy, hybrid, SaaS, and cloud-native architectures. Implement and integrate SaaS-based platforms while ensuring adherence to enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, resiliency, and software engineering standards. Apply AI-assisted and agentic programming approaches to improve software development productivity, including code generation, testing, documentation, debugging, code modernization, and development workflow automation. Explore and implement appropriate Large Language Model (LLM) and agentic AI capabilities, including LLM-based applications, AI agents, tool integration, retrieval/context-based patterns, prompt engineering, and responsible use of enterprise AI technologies. Maintain compliance with industry standards and internal governance while ensuring robust security, data protection, and regulatory alignment. Partner with architec