Lead Backend/API engineer

Title : Lead Backend/API engineer

Location: Minneapolis, MN

11 months Contract

Job Description:
11 + years Java/J2EE experience

• Must have solid architecture and design principle for REST API development
• Must be strong experience using Java, Spring Boot, reactive programming concept (mono, flex)
• Strong experience performance optimizing API
• Good knowledge about various supporting framework/design like Circuit breaker, logging, security, validation, error handling
• Knowledge interacting with various databases (Cassandra, MySQL)
• Solid understanding and implementation details about API asynchronous programming
• Knowledge about API monitoring and devOps
• Understand load balancing and scaling within cloud environment
• Knowledge about build and deployment process/tools
• Knowedge about different caching framework
• Good Understanding about testing framework such as Cucumber, Gatlin
• Knowledge about debugging memory issue using tools such as Visual VM, jConsole
• Good knowledge the linux /unix commands, shell scripting
• Knowledge about open source monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafanna

Preferred Qualifications:

Lead the technology as a senior member of the software engineer team, as part of an Agile scrum team assigned to work on the project

Designs, codes, tests, debug, and documents software, and enhance existing components to ensure that software meets business needs

Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and should be able to clearly articulate the implications of

design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership

Provide hands-on leadership, coaching, mentoring, and software engineering best practices to junior software engineers

Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enable team velocity

Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the scrum team

Estimate engineering work effort for engineering team and effectively identify and prioritize the high impact tasks

Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines

Drive a quality mindset within the team

Required Skills:

BS Degree in Computer Science or related experience

2+ years of experience as a lead developer or leading a team of Java developers

Experience with commercial software development and/or healthcare industry experience

Sound understanding of core OOPS as well as JEE Design patterns as well as their implementation in real world applications

Experience with Agile Methodology

Experience with XML/JSON and developing SOAP and REST services using Apache CXF or a comparable framework.

Experience with Java Messaging

Strong experience in projects requiring application re-engineering, modernization

Experience with Maven

Experience with Groovy