Java Fullstack Lead Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager.
• Participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
• Participates in retrospectives, demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy.
• Collaborate with team in high-level and low-level component and system designs
• Collaborate in performance improvements and tech review meetings
• Practices daily paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products
• Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices
• Support software products in user environments
• Participates in knowledge sharing, and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the team

Qualifications

• 5 years or more experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs using Java Spring Boot, including tooling for documentation (Swagger, REST-docs, Open API spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways and REACT is a plus.
• Hands on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud, including Micro Services architectures.
• Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML.
• Experience in backend development design and implementation, database (SQL, caching) and Kafka messaging.
• Knowledge and experience using distributed version control systems (Git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (Maven, Gradle, NPM, Artifactory, etc.) and Jenkins or similar Continuous Integration tools.
• Experience of working in an Agile environment or paired programming/engineering model.
• Experience with Python is a plus.
• Experience with the Test-Driven approach and writing unit tests for front to back coverage.
• Experience with problem-solving and analyzing performance bottlenecks.