IT Software Engineer 3

IT Software Engineer 3

Duration: 12 MONTHS

Location: IL-Chicago

Years of experience required: 5+ years

Degrees or certifications required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field is required

Technical Skills (Required):

• 5+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java.
• Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.
• Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.
• Deploying software using CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GoCD, etc.
• Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
• Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum).

Technical Skills (Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following):

• Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ.
• Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs.
• Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible.
• Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development.
• Hands on experience with testing tools such as Cucumber and Selenium and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle.
• Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc.
• Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms.

Soft Skills (Required):

• Must demonstrate solid knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals, such as data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints.
• Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment.
• Demonstrated leadership on small to medium-scale projects impacting strategic priorities.

Disqualifiers/Red Flags:

• If candidate is not in local area, please do not submit.
• If the candidate’s current place of residence is not on resume, they will be DQ.
• If candidate currently resides outside of local area, but is open to relocate on their own dime, please make sure to list that clearly on the resume.

Interview Process: 3 rounds (1 hour each typically); coding exercises, theoretical questions to answer, etc.