Senior Java Developer

Job Title: Senior Java Developer Location: Cary, NC, Hybrid: 3 days onsite Duration: Long Term Contract

Mandatory Skills: Java,Microservices,SpringBoot,AWS,Angular,Kafka/JMS/ActiveMQ/IBM MQ/Rabbit MQ,Docker,Kubernetes

JOB DESCRIPTION Position Summary:
A Senior Software Engineer will develop, maintain, and support new or existing software products while evangelizing and applying the best practices of software development.
Responsibilities include the ability to work independently and as part of the leadership group of a larger team to deliver quality solutions across all phases and layers of the software lifecycle.

Essential Functions: Quality:
Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests
Minimize the number of production escapes
Support user acceptance testing
Support or conduct system testing, performance, volume, and stress testing
Usability/User Experience:
Collaborate with business and UX team to create appropriate application User interfaces
Assist with mock-up's, user interface design
Incorporate UX components into application
Provide feedback to UX team
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Works under deadlines and subject to heavy project load
Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff
Ability to operate independent of supervision with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
Experience in defining requirements, designing, and illustrating process flows, and training users.
Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization including documentation of application requirements
Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively
Ability to mentor others
7 years of Java/J2EE Web Development Experience.
Comfortable with front-end, middle tier and backend technologies.
Expertise in front-end technologies like Angular, Spring MVC or equivalent, hands on experience in these technologies a must in last 3 years.
Expertise in Spring, Spring Boot and hibernate or equivalent ORM, hands on experience in these technologies a must in last 2 years.
Experience is working with Docker and Kubernetes environment, hands on experience in building docker applications.
Web Service SOAP/REST expertise, especially as a service provider.
MDB/MDP/Broker/Service Bus MQ technologies development experience in last 2-3 years is a plus. If the candidate is just familiar with MQ or has minimal experience, needs to be really strong in specific front-end, backend technologies of Struts/Spring/hibernate.
Expertise using Tomcat servers
Experience with Agile software development methodology
Expertise in using version control software like git, etc.
Strong understanding of deployment processes, deployment environments, production application troubleshooting techniques etc. too.
Experience to work with AWS cloud native services like S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ELB, SNS, SQS and Route53 will be a plus
Experience to deploy application components in AWS EKS cluster and to debug any issues will be a plus
Experience in using Aurora RDS for database will be a plus
Experience in using Amazon MQ for message broker service will be a plus

Education & Experience:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience
Minimum of 9 years of experience in a development environment.
AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification will be a plus