Design, build, test, and maintain Java Spring Boot microservices. Collaborate with architects, front-end developers, and product owners to define APIs, translate requirements, write automated tests, debug and optimize performance, participate in Agile ceremonies, perform code reviews, and maintain technical documentation.
What will you do?
- Partner with business and marketing to Implement detailed customer applications
- Build microservice applications using best practices
- Write high-quality, scalable, reusable and fault-tolerant code
- Write automated unit tests and perform API validations
- Debug errors, troubleshoot issues, and perform routine performance optimizations
- Collaborate with Solution Architect and define API schema
- Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate UI components with APIs
- Collaborate with Product Owners to gather business requirement and groom user stories
- Participate in application lifecycle events (e.g. Feature Launches, Releases, Deployment Windows)
- Contribute and maintain high quality technical documentation
- Actively participate in scrum/agile ceremonies
- Gather and document requirements for development and delivery
- Contribute code to improve and implement new and existing features
- Perform peer code reviews
- Communicate with business and various other departments.
What are we looking for?
- Ability to understand and translate business/functional requirements to High / Low-Level Designs
- Experience in Java Spring Boot and RESTful Microservices development
- Experience in working with one of the concurrency frameworks like Mono, Flux
- Strong relational database experience in either Oracle, MS SQL, or Postgres
- Experience with Automated Testing and tools such as JUnit
- Experience in using tools like Jira, GitLab, Swagger, Postman, SOAP UI
- Experience using Logging framework and understanding of monitoring tools like Kibana, ELK, Dynatrace
- Strong understanding of Data Structures, Design patterns and asynchronous programming
- 6+ years of software development experience.
- Knowledge of Agile / Scrum / Iterative development methodologies
- Experience working in ORM frameworks like Entity, Hibernate, Dapper
- Knowledge of API authentication using oAuth
- Knowledge of queuing or streaming engines like Kafka
- Knowledge of Docker, GIT, SonarQube and other deployment tools for CI/CD
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 33,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 118,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full time employees.
This position is also available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post
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