Java Developer

Job Overview

• Determine and identify technical requirements based on interactions with business analysts and knowledge of enterprise architecture
• Design architectures, including the software, hardware, and communications, to support the total requirements, as well as to provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces
• Interact with project management to plan project schedules and technical direction
• Provide quality assurance review and the evaluation of existing and new products
• Develop high-level system design diagrams for program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation
• Develop and implement moderate to complex applications on one or more platforms

Requirements

• Teamwork
• Analyze User Needs
• Analytical Thinking
• Comfortable Writing and Analyzing SQL Queries
• Critical Thinking
• Document Application Process
• Troubleshooting
• Programming Experience
• Attention to Detail
• Backend Development
• Problem Solving
• Verbal and Written Communication
• Software Design

Qualifications and Experience

• Has mentored junior software developers on design patterns, development best practices, and DevOps trade-offs
• Bachelor's Degree in the appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience
• Understand emerging web and mobile development, models
• Experienced with all ancillary technologies necessary for Internet applications: HTTP, TCP/IP, POP/SMTP, etc.
• High scalability projects involving cloud-based infrastructure design and implementation
• Working knowledge of object-oriented design and development skills
• Successful track record of developing quality software products and shipping production-ready software
• Good understanding of Web Services protocols such as REST, SOAP, and API design for extensibility and portability
• Experience debugging distributed systems with high data loads
• Deep understanding of distributed data model
• Solid understanding of the Software as a Service (SaaS) model in the online environment
• Design, develop and implement unit and scenario testing for existing code base and for new functionality under development
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Java/JEE, Spring Boot, JSON, XML, REST, NoSQL Database, Distributed System, RDBMS, ePub3, MVC frameworks, Design Patterns, Javascript, JQuery, JSON
• Experience with event streaming platforms and message brokers e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ
• Ability to use version control software such as GIT
• Experience as an applications programmer on large-scale database management systems
• Experience writing SQL queries for SQL Server or another Relational Database is required
• Knowledge of computer equipment and ability to develop complex software to satisfy design objectives

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