Software Engineer 5

Job Title: Software Engineer 5
Location: Chicago, IL
Type: W2 Contract

Required Education/Experience:




Bachelor s degree in computer science or electrical engineering or related field is required w/ 8+ years experience in this capacity is needed
Master s degree with 6+ years experience in capacity is needed.




Required Qualifications:




Senior Software Engineer provides technical leadership in design, development, testing and deployment of CLIENT state-of-the-art digital platform hosted on AWS
This position will build a world class platform to host a wide range of digital applications.
As a Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for designing and developing backend RESTful API web services using Microservices architecture.
Be responsible for overseeing and mentoring other developers and handle code reviews.
Acts as team leader for development and support groups; provides programming and application/technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.
Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution.
Drives application development focused around delivering valuable business features
Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
Guide the team to develop a structured application/interface code, new program documentation, operations documentation and user guides in a casual, flexible environment
Lead development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional Agile project teams




Required Technical Skills:




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 o 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. o Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc
Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms
Must demonstrate solid knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals, such as data structures and algorithms.
Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
Demonstrated leadership on small to medium-scale projects impacting strategic priorities
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)
Experience with AI tools is a BIG PLUS**




Responsibilities:




10+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java.
Experience software development experience using Java 17 or higher and SpringBoot RESTful API development
Experience deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ, Azure Event Hub.
Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis.
Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Azure Devops, Jenkins, GoCD, etc.
Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum).