Senior Java Software Engineer

Job Purpose

Designs, builds, and maintains full stack Java applications for the organization. Our Java Software Engineers develop applications in an Agile SDLC. Responsible for the development of Java enterprise applications utilizing frameworks such as Spring Boot. This position will have responsibilities in full life cycle development within a services-oriented architecture, including design, programming, testing, packaging, deploying, and maintaining service and infrastructure components.

Responsibilities

• Provides full stack design and development of Spring Boot components and the migration of legacy components to target architecture
• Designs and develops APIs necessary to deliver front-end functionality and/or be consumed by other partners
• Designs and creates data models for applications and databases to persist them
• Works closely with business analysts, and team members to understand business requirements that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions
• Participates in software design meetings and analyzes user needs to determine technical requirements
• Writes technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements
• Designs and develops automated Unit Tests, Component Tests, and Scenario Tests
• Performs code reviews and adheres to secure coding practices
• Mentors and guides work of less experienced software development staff
• Remains current on company SDLC standards
• Works closely with other engineers, vendor partners and business owners to ensure that the finished solution meets the needs of the business and our customers
• Performs additional related duties as assigned

Knowledge and Experience

Required

• Bachelor's Degree or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience
• 8+ years of software engineering work experience
• Experience working with Java development technologies
• Experience with Spring or Spring Boot frameworks

Preferred

• Experience with any of the Kubernetes based platforms (OpenShift (OCP), EKS/ECS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry)
• Experience with RESTful service development and working with microservices applications
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Familiarity with ADO source code management and pipelines
• Experience working with Kafka, Liquibase, Splunk or Snyk
• Experience working with OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, and Grafana
• Proficiency with development techniques such as Test-Driven Development, Unit Tests, Component Tests and/or Scenario Tests
• Familiarity working in a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) leveraging Agile principles
• Excellent analytical, decision-making and problem-solving skills
• Any cloud certification a plus (i.e. AWS, Azure, OCP)