Senior Java Developer

Duties and Responsibilities:

Responsible for activities associated with delivery of software solutions associated with customer-defined systems and software projects by working in close collaboration with software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes. Responsible for:

• Designing, developing and implementing custom software and database application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight
• Acting as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success
• Providing improvements to the product(s) being supported
• Actively participate in release and sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases
• Supporting release planning with conceptual design and development / refinement of software engineering guidelines
• Analyzing complex project-related problems and creating innovative solutions involving, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools and solution components
• Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports
• Providing mentoring to junior members of the team

Work Experience:

• Professional Experience: at least 8 years related technical experience, with software design, development and implementation in a Windows and Linux Environment
• Experience with Java 8 and 11; Familiarity with any of the following: JDBC, Hibernate (or other ORM), JavaScript, XML, JSON, Web-Services (JAX-WS or JAX-RS), JBoss, Eclipse/VSCode, Docker/containerization, maven, junit, and shell scripting
• Object oriented design and development (OODD) expertise, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), familiarity with microservices and distributed architectures
• Communicating OODD and SOA principles and best practices
• Working on unusually complicated problems and providing solutions that are highly creative and ingenious, exhibiting ingenuity, creativity, and resourcefulness
• Acting independently to expose and resolve problems
• Experience with Git source code control systems and concurrent development workflows
• Experience using SQL or PL/SQL to access Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server databases, familiarity with NOSQL such as MongoDB databases
• Experience with database design and understanding relational model/schema
• Ability to apply estimation techniques to software development efforts
• Working knowledge of and ability to assist others in the use of software engineering tools to support process improvement
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills