Senior Java Developer - 14+ years

Fort Worth, TX company is seeking a Senior Java Developer to join their team for a contract opportunity.

Leverage the latest technology to solve business problems in a collaborative environment at this Fortune 500 transportation giant. Top technical resources are retained on long-term contract engagements.
Responsible for leveraging cutting edge technology to solve business problems by participating in all phases of the development process from inception through transition, advocating the agile process and test-driven development, using object-oriented development tools to analyze, model, design, construct and test reusable objects, and making the codebase better.

Contract Duration: 7 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 14+ years of experience.
• Experience with Java 8 or above, Spring Boot, Spring Reactive, Spring Cloud, Kubernetes
• Experience with front end technologies JavaScript, Angular or React.
• Knowledge of multi-threading concepts, TCP/IP, database, and REST based JSON APIs.
• Experience with build and deployment tools: Maven, Git, Junit.
• Experience building and working with DevOps Toolchains (GitHub actions, Jenkins).
• Demonstrate great communication skills and initiative to solve problems and convey solutions to peers and product owners.
• Knowledge of multi-threading concepts, TCP/IP, database, and REST based JSON APIs.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work very closely with a larger development team of differing skillsets.
• Experience and understanding of test-driven development.
• Experience with the scrum process.
• Experience with Reactive Programming.
• Experience with Event Driven architecture.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience in commercial software.
• Knowledge of UI testing and continuous integration.
• DevOps knowledge - Jenkins, GitHub Enterprise.
• Angular 2+.
• Working knowledge of TDD / TDD mindset.
• Pair Programming experience.

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop new features in an iterative way that collectively form a larger application.
• Modify and enhance existing software to add or change features, while constantly improving the codebase.
• Participate in the estimation of work to be done as part of an overall agile process.
• Coordinate application implementation and test functionality to ensure specifications are met.