Java Developer

Senior/Lead/Java Developer

Location: Cary, NC (Hybrid) 2 days onsite in a week.

Duration: Long-term Contract

Job Summary:

Essential Functions:

• Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests
• Minimize the number of production escapes.
• Support user acceptance testing
• Support or conduct system testing, performance, volume, and stress testing.

Usability/User Experience:

• Collaborate with business and UX team to create appropriate application User interfaces
• Assist with mock-ups, user interface design
• Incorporate UX components into application
• Provide feedback to UX team

Product Reliability & Response:

• Ensure system can meet or exceed defined SLA's
• When primary on-call respond to pages within 15min, and resolve or escalate issue as necessary
• Resolve production issues and communicate resolution to appropriate stakeholders

Development:

• Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met.
• Conduct necessary analysis, design, and prepare technical documentation.
• Estimate story sizes and task out development for a given story.
• Follow the Client development process and suggest improvements.
• Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications.

Leadership (Technical):

• Evangelize Client common practices and development procedures.
• Exhibit technical leadership in given technical subject domain.
• Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve our quality, productivity, and capabilities
• Mentor peers and junior developers
• Delegate, and coordinate functional development tasks as needed.
• Drive innovation in the development, release, and operations processes

Skills:

• Experience in defining requirements, designing, and illustrating process flows, and training users.
• 7 years of Java/J2EE Web Development Experience.
• Comfortable with front-end, middle tier and backend technologies.
• Expertise in front-end technologies like Angular, Spring MVC or equivalent, hands-on experience in these technologies a must in last 3 years.
• Expertise in Spring, Spring Boot and hibernate or equivalent ORM, hands on experience in these technologies a must in last 2 years.
• Experience is working with Docker and Kubernetes environment, hands on experience in building docker applications.
• Web Service SOAP/REST expertise, especially as a service provider.
• MDB/MDP/Broker/Service Bus MQ technologies development experience in last 2-3 years is a plus. If the candidate is just familiar with MQ or has minimal experience, needs to be really strong in specific front-end, backend technologies of Struts/Spring/hibernate.
• Expertise using Tomcat servers
• Experience with Agile software development methodology
• Expertise in using version control software like git, etc.
• Strong understanding of deployment processes, deployment environments, production application troubleshooting techniques etc. too.
• Experience to work with AWS cloud native services like S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ELB, SNS, SQS and Route53.
• Experience to deploy application components in AWS EKS cluster and to debug any issues.
• Experience in using Aurora RDS for database.
• Experience in using Amazon MQ for message broker service will be a plus

Required Skills: Basic Qualification: Additional Skills: Note: Looking for someone who is local to Cary, NC. No relocation candidates as this is an hybrid onsite role. 2 days a week. Looking for genuine consultant.