What does a successful Senior Java Engineer do?

A successful Senior Java Engineer at client does software design; software development using programming languages or other abstractions; coding standards and procedures; debugging/troubleshooting and maintaining computer programs.

What you will do:

• You will develop a deep understanding of appropriate data & software components including conceptual data models, data flows, entity relationships, specifications, audit controls, exception and error handling, security, etc.
• You create and execute test plans/cases based on requirements and design specifications.
• Support the development of high-quality software within a scrum team.
• Contribute to code quality through maintaining high quality software development standards
• Support technical design decisions through validation of technical approaches and prototyping of new concepts
• Support team members to ensure successful sprint outcomes
• Raising technical, security, delivery, and performance risks
• Be part of and help promote our DevOps culture
• Identify and implement continuous improvements to the development practice
• Understand the existing processing architecture and provide high level design and technical solution for the new change request and project.
• Coordinate and work with offshore team for all deliverables and this will include peer review, proper documentation, and installation.

What you will need to have:

• Strong client-facing skills and experience
• Good understanding of software development patterns, object-oriented design principles, and coding techniques
• 5+ years of practical experience in JAVA/J2EE, Linux, Spring, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra, EJB.
• Experience working with cloud technology Azure, OpenShift, AWS, Docker etc.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical discipline or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience with full stack technologies like Java/J2EE, React or Angular, Spring Boot, OpenShift, producing & consuming REST API’s.
• 3 - 10 years of experience designing, developing, and implementing software applications and hands on experience with large scale applications at large institutions.

What would be great to have:

• Experience in Agile Software Development methodologies including Scrum.
• Snowflake development experience.
• Can-do attitude with a delivery focus.
• Practical experience with the end-to-end DevOps CI/CD pipeline including one or more of the following: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Maven, Gitlab, SonarQube.
• Knowledge of Test-Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).