BackEnd Developer

Ridgefield, CT


Contract Duration: 8-24 months


Rate: Negotiable


Salary: NA $1.00


Responsibilities:

• Excellent employment opportunity for a BACKEND DEVELOPER in the Ridgefield, CT area.
• As part of (Nonclinical Drug Safety) NDS product team a Backend Engineer is needed to build a product to search and display data from multiple data sources and with multiple displays.
• Development is needed through MVP and first next steps of the digital product.
• Responsible for defining and implementing the technical requirements of web application based on user stories.
• Developing and maintaining APIs and frameworks and using testing automation where possible.
• Responsible for ensuring development and coding standards and practices are implemented, as defined by the team
• Will work with frontend developers, UX designer, Data Engineer and Data Scientists in the development
• Work on various platform with different programming languages and supported the production cluster management system
• The routine application maintenance tasks executed as expected via strategy-building techniques
• Will work within a Scrum team to deliver product releases in an agile manner.

• At least 3 years in a similar position building backend Technologies
• Bachelor's Degree in IT related field preferred
• Java experience required
• Springboot experience required
• SQL knowledge required
• Git experience required
• Experience developing REST APIs required
• Experience working with databases (i.e., Oracle, Postgres, MSSql) required.
• Experience with Postgres database preferred
• Python/Flask experience preferred
• Jenkins and Docker experience preferred
• Jira experience preferred
• Experience with databases and putting and retrieving information (SQL, graph databases) preferred
• Experience with big data technologies preferred (Hadoop/HDFS, Spark and Hive)
• Experience working on agile (scrum) teams