Software Engineer - API Development

Job Description:

The Software Engineer will help build the Next Gen Applications Suite. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering, and maintaining a highly scalable set of products and applications. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with a cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team and DevOps engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain microservices to support our consumer-facing applications.
• Write highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security, and performance. Use TDD and participate in code reviews with other software engineers.
• Collaborate with DevOps team to setup the build and delivery pipeline. Add instrumentation and monitoring to support production environments. Build Docker containers and container management.
• Accurately scope effort, identify risks and clearly communicate trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.
• Ship high quality products and features with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support; owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.
• This list is not all-inclusive and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned.

Skills/Experience:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 5 - 7 years of experience designing and developing secure object-oriented web services.
• 5-7 Years of hands-on experience with all phases of software development. Strong
  experience in Java and Restful API Development.
• Expertise in developing microservices.
• Some familiarity with exposing and securing APIs using an API management solution.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Test Driven Development, unit testing, and knowledge of mocking frameworks such as EasyMock and Mockito.
• Developing and deploying applications on AWS, Azure or private cloud.
• Strong problem solving and communication skills. Great business acumen with a passion to solve for the customer.
• Experience in working in an agile team/methodology using Jira / Atlassian tools.
• Experience in at least a few of the following technologies in the below categories:
• Spring Framework, Spring Boot.
• Web Services: Spring, Jersey, Apache CXF, RESTEasy, Restlet
• Databases: Oracle, MySql, MongoDB, Cassandra etc.
• Distributed Cache: Redis, Coherence, Hazelcast.
• Build & CI Tools: Github Action, Maven, Jenkins, Gradle etc.
• AI Coding Assistant: Github Copilot, Amazon Code Whisperer, Codeium.
• Message Brokers: IBM MQ Series, Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ.
• Observability: Datadog, Splunk.