Java Developer

Skills

Description

A Senior Software Engineer will develop, maintain, and support new or existing software products while evangelizing and applying the best practices of software development.


Responsibilities include the ability to work independently and as part of the leadership group of a larger team to deliver quality solutions across all phases and layers of the software lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Evangelize Railinc common practices and development procedures.
• Exhibit technical leadership in given technical subject domain.
• Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve our quality, productivity, and capabilities.
• Mentor peers and junior developers.
• Delegate, and coordinate functional development tasks as needed.
• Drive innovation in the development, release, and operations processes.
• Knowledge, Skills, abilities/minimum requirements/competencies:
• Works under deadlines and subject to heavy project load.
• Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff.
• Ability to operate independent of supervision with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience in defining requirements, designing, and illustrating process flows, and training users.
• Ability to communicate and follow up professionally(written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization –including documentation of application requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively.
• Ability to mentor others.
• 7 years of Java/J2EE Web Development Experience.
• Comfortable with front-end, middle tier and backend technologies.
• Expertise in front-end technologies like Angular, Spring MVC or equivalent, hands-on experience in these technologies a must inlast 3 years.
• Expertise in Spring, Spring Boot and hibernate or equivalent ORM, hands on experience in these technologies a must in last 2years.
• Experience is working with Docker and Kubernetes environment, hands on experience in building docker applications.
• Web Service SOAP/REST expertise, especially as a service provider.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology.
• Expertise in using version control software like git, etc.
• Strong understanding of deployment processes, deployment environments, production application trouble shooting techniques etc. too.
• Experience to work with AWS cloud native services likeS3, EC2, CloudFront, Lambda, ELB, SNS, CloudWatch and Route53.
• Experience to deploy application components in AWS EKS cluster and to debug any issues.
• Experience in using Aurora Postgres RDS for database.
• Experience in using Amazon Active MQ for message broker service will be a plus.
• Experience in using event streaming platform like Kafka will be a plus.
• Experience in using Terraform will be a plus.
• Education, experience, certification/training:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience or
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 3 years of technical experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a development environment.
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification will be a plus.

Educational Requirements

• Ensure system can meet or exceed defined SLA's.
• When primary on-call respond to pages within 15min, and resolve or escalate issue as necessary.
• Resolve production issues and communicate resolution to appropriate stakeholders.
• Development:
• Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met.
• Conduct necessary analysis, design, and prepare technical documentation
• Estimate story sizes and task out development for a given story.
• Follow the Railinc development process and suggest improvements.
• Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications.