Job Description
Java Developer – Chicago, IL (Hybrid)
Key Skills: Java, Azure, Jenkins, Kafka, Restful API, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra
Note: Looking only for local candidate. The position requires a hybrid work model with office attendance twice a week.
The client is seeking an experienced Java developer with 8+ years of experience in software design, development, and deployment, particularly with relational and NoSQL databases, CI/CD tools, and public cloud platforms like AWS or Azure. The candidate should demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, the ability to work independently, and experience with Agile methodologies. Key responsibilities include driving application development, mentoring junior engineers, and maintaining high software quality standards.
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java.
- Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale. Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.
- Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.
- Deploying software using CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GoCD, etc
- Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
- Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum). Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following -
- Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ.
- Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs
- Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible
- Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development.
Hands on experience with testing tools such as Cucumber and Selenium and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
- Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle.
- Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc o Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms
Roles And Responsibilities
- Team member contributing to programming, project management, and development assignments.
- Working on backend services in Cat Digital platform
- Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision
- Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls
- Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
- Drives application development focused around delivering business value
- Mentors and assists software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed
- Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
- Proactively reaches out for help when stuck on an issue after doing reasonable independent research
- Maintains a sense of urgency when working on tasks and actively followup on any dependencies or blockers
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