Java/Groovy Developer IV

Java/Groovy Developer IVPricing Team

***1 SUB SLOT IN BEELINE***

Local candidates only

Will accept level ll-IV candidates as long as rate is aligned.

Prescreening Questions: These are optional- will be asked in interview if not provided with resume

• What is your experience with pair programming? Do you like it?
• How often do you refactor?

Business Overview:

Java/Groovy Developer IVPricing Team – Responsible for all pricing under Dotcom

Project Description: In this role, they will be a critical member of the team building the foundation for Best Buy's next generation web platform. They will support and extend running applications & assist in the design and development of new applications. They will be expected to evaluate and refactor in a rapid manner for every part of our infrastructure. Overall knowledge of designing an application to run on a scalable platform is expected. You will be working in an agile environment which means test-driven development and pair programming. We are evolving towards a dev/ops model, with our development teams engaged in monitoring, optimizing and supporting our production environments. We have many projects running in parallel including Cloud technologies, Infrastructure automation, and SOA REST based web applications.

Position Summary/Job Description:

Responsibilities/Deliverables that the resource will be responsible for:

• Developing Groovy/Spring web applications
• Aggressive refactoring
• Object Oriented Programming and Service Oriented Architecture design along with REST
• Help build large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
• Able to participate in the planning process: take high level design discussions and create user stories, then further break those stories into tasks.

What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

Must Have Skills:

• Strong Spring/Java/Groovy applications and unit-testing skills (Spock in particular)
• Experience in developing/consuming REST/ based Services
• Experience with paired programming and iterative development
• Strong social and communication skills
• Takes initiative, self-starter. Able to identify work that needs to be done on their own.

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?

Must-Have:

• Team oriented focus
• Production support
• Object-oriented programming and experience with working knowledge of common Design Patterns

Nice to have skills:

• Experience as a Technical Lead on a large application development project
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration environment
• Experience with functional testing frameworks
• Experience with Akka or kafka-streams.
• Test-Driven Development
• Experience with a Message Queuing technology (e.g., Rabbit/IBM/JMS/AMPQ)
• High comfort level with Unix/Linux command line
• Preferred at least 5+ years of experience.
• Experience writing applications interacting with Kafkawn.