Java Software Engineer

Job Summary

We are seeking passionate Java Software Engineers looking to join an enterprise client who desires to work on cutting edge technologies and projects.

If you are a developer who wants to be able to make a difference, have influence and work on some of the most high profile, key initiatives within a global company this role could be for you.

This position requires someone to have solid core Java development skills and experience with Spring Boot, microservices, NoSQL databases, Agile, and have experience building heavily integrated, mission critical, business applications.

The role is a blend of all new development, maintenance of brand new code with only 25% or less production support / maintenance / bug fix of legacy code set to sunset in the next year.

This person will be involved in heavy middle and back end development for a technology that integrates with all the key company systems and their inventory management platform, a critical revenue generating function of the organization.

This role will allow someone to become a product expert of this platform and who this type of system is used across this industry.

This person will participate in code reviews, work with business analysts, PMs, Scrum Masters, and other business partners to develop requirements as well as help ensure the application meets the customer needs.

The technology stack is Java / J2EE, NoSQL, microservices, Spring Boot, cloud native all done using an Agile methodology.

This company has great benefits, bonus opportunity, culture and unlimited paid time off coupled with working on a team / platform that makes up 60% of their corporate IT budget and is a strategic focus for executive leadership.

In order to be successful you must be a self starter, someone who doesn't stop until the solve problems, no matter how challenging, willing to speak up and contribute in all team discussions, contribute to technical design and architecture and take ownership over all work.

Required Skills :

At least 5 years experience software development using core Java / J2EE with focus on back end development

Seasoned developer with heavy experience with Spring Boot framework and microservices integrations from scratch

RESTful web services and APIs

Experience developing enterprise applications that utilize messaging technologies

NoSQL databases experience such as MongoDB, PostgresSQL etc

Strong understanding and practice of Agile software development methodologies

Expertise in performance tuning of highly complicated, heavily integrated cloud native applications built with optimization for scalability and high availability

Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where working with a sense of urgency is key

Work independently and own tickets, problems, assigned work until its completed

Strong engineering mindset and attention to quality and detail - clean code, automated testing, peer review

Ability to collaborate with other software architects and engineers

Demonstrated success leading others engineers, providing technical thought leadership

Strong collaboration and team-building skills

Ability to influence, mentor and develop skills in other technologists

Strong ability and willingness to learn and adopt new technologies

Desired Skills :

Understanding of containerized application development with Kubernetes and / or Docker

Knowledge of build scripting tools such as Gradle, Ant, Maven, Gulp and Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins)

Experience building ecommerce web applications strongly desired

Experience building cloud native applications

Foundation / Bootstrap, LESS / SASS and JSTL tag libraries

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