Job Description:
The full-stack Senior Java Software Engineer serves as a senior member to the technology group. The role works with the product management team to understand the requirements and manage the end-to-end development cycle. The position demands a passion for solving problems and hunger to learn new technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Utilizes established development tools, guidelines and conventions including but not limited to Java, Linux, Tomcat, nodeJS, MVC, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Designs, codes, tests, and documents Web Applications, batch processes, and web services
- Defines and enhances SOA frameworks and supporting technical documents
- Possesses experience in MongoDB and MS SQL
- Possesses experience with Application Performance Monitoring tools and automated testing tools
- Defines best practices for development, test, configuration and release management.
- Possesses mature critical thinking skills, self-direction, and expert level troubleshooting abilities
- Enhances existing systems by analyzing business objectives, preparing action plans, and identifying areas for modification and improvement
- Maintains existing software systems by identifying and correcting software defects
- Investigates and develops skills in new technologies and software tools
- Creates technical specifications
- Creates new and extends existing operational documentation
- Participates in peer reviews and walkthroughs
- Plans and implements every process step as defined in methodologies
- Anticipates problems and analyzes ways to mitigate the risk
- Consults colleagues concerning maintenance and performance of software systems
- Keeps abreast of current and emerging technologies, how they integrate, and drive value for client
This position will perform other duties as assigned based on the needs of the department.
Required Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Information Systems, or equivalent field
- 8+ years in software design/development, with a majority of time focused on building large scale online applications
- Experience in relational databases such as MS SQL and Oracle
- Experience with Web Services paradigms including RestAPIs.
- RPC technologies such as SOAP, XML-RPC experience
- Deep understanding of distributed environments and resource management
- Ability to articulate technical issues, root cause, and remediation plans in plain English
- Strong communication skills (verbal and written) and ability to communicate with both business and technical teams, including the ability to articulate technical issues, root cause, and remediation plans in layman’s terms
- Experience designing methods of integration and/or implementing predefined integration components to enable communication between systems
Education & Experience – Really looking for someone with cloud, micro services, containerization as per below:
- Property tax experience
- Development experience in cloud, such as Azure and AWS
- Containerization, such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Modern monitoring and tracing tools, such as AppDynamics, Splunk, Instana and DataDog