Sr Backend Java Developer

Description:

Team member contributing to programming, project management, and development assignments. Working on backend services in Client's Digital platform.

Responsibilities:

• Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drives application development focused around delivering business value.
• Mentors and assists software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed.
• Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Proactively reaches out for help when stuck on an issue after doing reasonable independent research.
• Maintains a sense of urgency when working on tasks and actively followup on any dependencies or blockers.

Techinical Skills Required:

• 5+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java.

• Proven experience in many of the following:

o Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.
o Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.

o Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.

o Deploying software using CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GoCD, etc

o Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.

o Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum) --------

• Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following:

o Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ. o Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs o Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible

o Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development.

o Hands on experience with testing tools such as Cucumber and Selenium and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.

o Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle.

o Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc o Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms

Soft Skills Required:
• Must demonstrate solid knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals, such as data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
• Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
• Demonstrated leadership on small to medium-scale projects impacting strategic priorities

Education & Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field is required w/ 5+ years' experience needed
• Masters degree with 4+ years' experience

Required Skills : Test-Driven Development,CI/CD,RESTful APIs,Cucumber,SeleniumThis is a high PRIORITY requisition. This is a PROACTIVE requisition