Job#: 3030605 Job Description: IT - Java Developer - Senior
Location: Austin, Texas (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract
Role Overview
This role is responsible for leading technical teams to deliver highly scalable, reliable, and secure applications that align with the strategic technology vision. The position is critical in delivering a best-in-class authentication solution for a high-volume transaction system, handling peak throughput while upholding strong engineering, agility, and quality standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead technical teams in delivering highly scalable and reliable applications that meet business timelines and align with the strategic technology vision.
- Deliver a best-in-class authentication solution for a high-volume transaction system.
- Partner with Solution Architects and Platform Architects to ensure implementations meet solution architecture and design standards.
- Understand, advocate, and augment platform principles, guidelines, and standards.
- Serve as an advocate for high software agility and quality standards within a culture of engineering excellence.
- Promote and support agile practices to increase delivery agility.
- Coach and support teammates across multiple teams.
- Create, maintain, and ensure adherence to development, coding, testing, and automation standards.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Technical Skills:- Essential: Java
- Essential: JavaScript and related frameworks
- Essential: Web application development
- Essential: Spring Cloud or similar API gateways
- Essential: REST APIs
- Essential: Testing automation frameworks such as JUnit, Karma, Ruby, Cucumber, or Java BDD
- Essential: MongoDB
- Essential: Experience with logging technologies, log analysis, and reporting
- Essential: Experience with CI/CD technologies
- Essential: Experience with containerized deployment
- Essential: Understanding of authentication protocols such as OAuth and SAML
Soft Skills:- Demonstrates curiosity and a commitment to continuous learning.
- Proven software design experience building applications capable of handling high transaction volumes while maintaining high availability.
- Proven experience solving problems in high-stress and time-critical situations, including production issues.
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred: Experience with Angular
- Preferred: Experience with consumer-facing web applications
- Preferred: Experience with PostgreSQL
- Preferred: Experience with Splunk, BigQuery, or Grafana
- Preferred: Experience with GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Sonar, Black Duck, or Veracode
- Preferred: Experience deploying applications to cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS
- Preferred: Experience developing identity and authentication solutions
Compensation & Benefits
Pay Rate: $50.00/hr - $60.00/hr. The specific compensation for this role will be determined based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, skills, and qualifications.
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.
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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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