Java Developer

Senior Java Developer

This position will be a senior member of a small development team focused on the Helios Platform services. The team will work with several other scrum teams to develop and support new services for the Helios platform and applications. In addition to development efforts, this position will also mentor and assist software engineers, provide technical assistance and direction as needed and maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.

Work director open to any location. Work with team members to define and document requirements from the Architecture plan. Work with the Product Owner to prioritize the work into agile sprints. Perform the development to deliver and test needed functionalities to integrate cloud-based architecture.

Technical skills required:

• 5+ years of software development experience or at least 3+ year of experience with master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 3+ years designing and developing software applications in Java using Spring Framework
• 3+ years of experience deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Particularly with all of the following AWS Components: Dynamo DB, Lambda, S3 storage, Kinesis, Simple Notification Service (SNS), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Cloud Formation.
• 2+ years exp deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Azure Devops or Jenkins.
• Demonstrated solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures and algorithms.
• Demonstrated good understanding of applying application design patterns to solve complex problems.
• Exp working within Agile framework (ideally Scrum).

Desired skills:

• Proven experience developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Python programming experience REST principles. IntelliJ IDE AWS CodeCommit AWS CodeDeploy Unit testing and mocking (JUnit, Mockito) Functional testing (Cucumber) Git version control system Unity or dependency injection

Soft skills required:

• Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Demonstrated strong initiative with ability to work independently.

Education requirements: Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or any other Engineering field 8+ overall years exp or a masters degree with 6+ years overall exp.