Hybrid Java Backend Developer

Position Summary:

We are currently seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented Backend Developer to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and implement Micro Service Architecture for Cloud based software applications.
• Use modern software engineering tools including Eclipse, Jira, and Atlassian Suites for design, development, and testing the software
• Present the solution at formal and informal design reviews, and document the design according to the Government’s system lifecycle methodology

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related engineering field with 9+ years of technical experience
• 9+ years of strong Java design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems
• Ability to diagnose problems and support production systems
• 2+ years of working with Applications on Cloud utilizing serverless hosted services like AWS S3, DynanoDB, lambda etc
• Java Micro Service Architecture frameworks such as Spring Boot
• Experience with container platforms like Docker and Kubernetes
• SQL DBs (preferably Oracle) and strong SQL/JDBC skills is required for this position.
• Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Document DB, Cassandra etc.
• Messaging and Streaming Systems (Kafka, SQS ans Kinesis)
• XML/JSON
• Unix/Linux
• Experince with JPA/Hibernate
• Experience with building RESTful webservices and experience with query language based APIs like GraphQL.
• Jenkins, Maven, Gitlab and Jira for CI/CD
• Demonstrated expertise in software engineering practices (e.g., reading/generating software specs, design patterns, continuous integration)
• Demonstrated ability to incorporate rigorous Unit testing as part of development activities is essential

Desired Skills and Experience

• First-hand experience working with large project teams (working with the Federal Government a strong plus)
• Demonstrated ability to think critically and creatively to develop innovative solutions to software problems.
• Ability to develop and maintain components with stringent performance requirements.
• Agile development experience a plus
• IBM MQ , JMS, EJB, MDB and other JEE technologies
• JEE Server experience (WebLogic\WebSphere\JBOSS\etc.)