Back End Developer

Back End Developer IV

Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Back End Developer for a contract position in Richfield, MN. The opportunity will be six months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Position Summary:

The Digital & Technology organization provides world-class software engineering solutions across our enterprise. Our focus is transforming legacy systems into high-scale, cloud-native digital assets. We build scalable high-performing full-stack systems that can stand up to peak holiday traffic.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Enthusiastic and excited about technology
• Flexible, dependable, and know how to have fun while getting a lot done
• Setbacks and constraints motivate you to work harder
• Will roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with the rest of the team
• Strive to constantly improve yourself and the team
• Demonstrate knowledge of industry trends and look for ways to apply those trends to your products
• Seek to create a culture of high code quality
• Recognized as a technical expert in at least one area of specialty
• Lead technical design sessions on your team
• Provide hands-on contributions in all phases of the project lifecycle - architecture, design, development, MVP, and Dev Ops of key technology initiatives
• Work directly with technical leads, product and engineering management, and business stakeholders
• Work with modern engineering concepts including Microservices, agile development methodology, test-driven development, continuous integration, and deployment practices
• Bring a creative and innovation-driven mindset with the ability to articulate engineering design strategies related to scale, performance, security, and usability
• Build high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems
• Accountable and responsible for code and design reviews, aggressive refactoring, and collaborating with other engineers on the team
• Anticipate and solve technical issues and make architectural and design decisions to avoid those issues
• Work closely with test engineers to help build test automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate effectively on cross-functional projects
• Proactively mitigate high-impact risks to prevent them from turning into issues and support efforts to manage and resolve critical issues

Qualifications:

• 6 years' experience in software development and a bachelor's degree, or 8 years of experience without a bachelor's degree
• 6 years of hands-on development experience building applications using languages such as Java

Preferred:

• 6 years' experience implementing and deploying modern application development technologies such as Java, Groovy, Spring, REST-based web services, SQL and NoSQL databases
• 4 years' experience with modern engineering concepts and technologies including Microservices, OpenShift, Splunk etc.
• 2 years' experience as a tech lead providing coaching, work direction, and/or mentoring to a development team
• 2 years' experience with Off-heap caching solutions, such as Redis or Memcached, and Continuous integration workflows using tools like Jenkins
• 2 years' experience with modern JavaScript frameworks like Angular, React, and Node.js
• 1 years' experience with Cloud Computing Platforms - AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.
• Knowledge of and working experience with open-source software (Apache, Tomcat, Memcached, etc.) as well as networks, security, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, and other infrastructure components

If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application!

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