Sr. Java Developer

Job Title

Local candidates to Richfield, MN only. Hybrid schedule - 2 to 3 days/week in office. Open to 5+ years experience.

Department

Pricing 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
• High comfort level with Unix/Linux command line
• Object Oriented Programming and Service Oriented Architecture design along with REST

Required Skills and Experience

Must Have Skills:

• At least 8 years of relevant application software development experience
• Test-Driven Development
• Strong Spring knowledge
• Developing Spring/Java/Groovy applications
• Experience writing applications interacting with Kafka
• Experience with a Message Queuing technology (e.g. Rabbit/IBM/JMS/AMPQ)
• Experience in developing/consuming REST Services
• Object-oriented programming and experience with working knowledge of common Design Patterns
• Experience with emergent design and paired programming
• High comfort level with Unix/Linux command line
• Strong unit-testing skills (Spock in particular)
• Experience with 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.

Preferred Skills

Must-Have:

• Strong social and communication skills
• Team oriented focus
• Takes initiative, self starter. Able to identify work that needs to be done on their own.

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