Senior Backend Java Developer

Senior Backend Java Developer

Location: Remote

Hire Type: Contract (3 Years)

Client: Maryland Department of Health (MDH)

Someone very strong in backend if they have Kotlin would be plus. If not, then someone who is willing to learn as they go. WE need a strong Backend Developer JAVA.

Lead developer needs to be closely working with customers as on.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other engaged, friendly, principles-first-thinking oriented engineers to understand customer use cases and implement core engineering capabilities
• Operate across multiple layers of the stack to design and build fault-tolerant distributed systems that optimize our fleet of fulfillment infrastructure and robots.
• Invent new features, designing, developing and deploying reliable applications
• Challenging and mentoring other engineers
• Participate in software architecture and design reviews Translating business and functional requirements into deliverable software and customer experience
• Develop tools to test and analyze complex systems, including those deployed in production, and dig into critical pieces of distributed systems like logging, tracing, metrics.
• Code with no fear, supported by continuous builds, tests, a constructive code-review process, and a supportive culture of identifying and fixing bugs

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience in Kotlin, Java (Core Java and Frameworks like Spring / SpringBoot) including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
• 1+ years of cloud experience (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• 1+ years of DevOps - CI/CD
• Strong in Data Structures and Algorithms
• Understand the problem and choose the right Data Structures and Algorithms to use
• Handle Time Space complexity
• Strong understanding of System Design.
• Ability to explain the trade-offs in certain design decisions
• Explain complex technical concepts in an easy-to-understand way

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Math, or other algorithmic-centric discipline or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated ability to design, implement, and test software in a fast-paced environment
• Experience with multithreading and concurrency
• Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently
• Strong understanding of Data handling and workflows
• Strong communication skills, ability to work well in a team environment
• Experience with tools and environments (e.g., Distributed Cache (Redis), Distributed DB like DynamoDB, JSON / XML, Restful services, version control systems, Containerization (Dockers / Kubernetes), blue-green deployments, bug/issue tracking tools)
• Experience with Front End – React JS
• Experience and knowledge in building software for large scale industrial systems