Full Stack Developer

Contract position with a major financial firm.
Hybrid. in Newark, NJ.


Description:
• Work closely with business partners to understand needs and transform them into testable components
• Employ industry best practices to deliver world-class solutions. Ensure developed solutions remain compliant with all applicable *** standards
• Drive software development activities to meet schedules and timelines
• Thrives to ensure code quality is high with supporting unit test and automation, and timely delivery
• Research problems discovered by quality assurance or product support with a strong sense of ownership and develop solutions to address the problems
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and how they can be applied
• Enable change, help accelerate innovation
• Demonstrating experience with taking intelligent risks and leveraging a 'test and learn' mentality
• Committed to a spirit of authentic partnership - to colleagues both internal and external to the organization
• Conduct unit testing and integration testing for functionality
• Ensure that software standards, non-functional requirements and quality targets are met


Skills needed:


Solid backend development experience using Java/Python and RESTful API design.
• Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and microservices architectures.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services (e.g., EC2, S3, API Gateway, Lambda) .
• Working knowledge of containerization using Docker and deployment to AWS ECS (or EKS)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments in AWS environments
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure concepts (VPC, IAM, load balancing, auto scaling)
• Proficiency with databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or NoSQL) and query optimization
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch)


#LI-AC1