IT Software engineer
Location-Hybrid-In office 2x days a week/Chicago IL
Typical task breakdown:
- Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision
- Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls
- Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
- Drives application development focused around delivering business value
- Mentors and assists software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed
- Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
- Proactively reaches out for help when stuck on an issue after doing reasonable independent research
- Maintains a sense of urgency when working on tasks and actively followup on any dependencies or blockers
Work environment:
Hybrid; will need to go into office 2x a week ; this role could change where they need to go in office days a week, so please make sure your candidate(s) are fully good with that as well.
Education & Experience Required:
- Bachelor s degree in computer science or electrical engineering or related field is required w/ 10+ years experience needed
- Master s degree with 8+ years experience
Technical Skills
(Required)
- 10+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java.
Proven experience in many of the following:
- Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.
- Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.
- Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.
- Deploying software using CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GoCD, etc
- Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
- Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum)
- Experience with AI tools is a BIG PLUS**
Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following:
- Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ.
- Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs
- Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible o Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development.
Hands on experience with testing tools such as Cucumber and Selenium and - their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
- Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle. o Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc
- Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms
Soft Skills
(Required)
- Must demonstrate solid knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals, such as data structures and algorithms.
- Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
- Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
- Demonstrated leadership on small to medium-scale projects impacting strategic priorities
Disqualifiers/Red Flags:
- If candidate is not in local area, please do not submit
- If the candidate s current place of residence is not on resume, they will be DQ
Interview Process:
3 rounds ( 1 hour each typically) ; coding exercises, theoretical questions to answer, etc. (Might be able to combine rounds
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