Java Backend Developer

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Job Taxonomy:

Senior Software Engineer - 03460

Job Title:

Senior Software Engineer

Job Description:

The Senior Software Engineer will help build the Next Gen Applications Suite. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering and maintaining a highly scalable set of products and applications.

The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team and DevOPS engineers

• Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems
• Participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study
• Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure
• Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments and monitoring of production health.
• Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything
• Tests and ensures quality of all code that developed in line with principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible
• Participates in code-reviews, provides technical guidance and mentors software engineers
• Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence and scope business and functional requirements and drive results.
• Instruments infrastructure and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation and metrics (KPI) management
• Performs impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• 4+ w/Bachelors degree 
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Applications and Products
• BS in computer science or equivalent technical field or equivalent work experience.
• MS is a plus.
• Experience with developing and deploying applications on Azure or similar cloud platform

Skills/Experience:

YOU HAVE:

• Ability to understand business plans and apply that information into the development of an IT business case
• Anticipates problems, resistance or likely objections and takes action to resolve them
• Ability to guide, train and mentor associate engineers
• Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements
• Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change of such processes
• Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
  Knowledge of agile development methodologies
• Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships with a focus on technology currency and best practices
• Life-long learner, process improver
• Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Pega Applications, Healthcare and/or Customer Service capability experience is a plus
• Experience with developing and deploying Pega applications on Azure or similar cloud platform
• Experience integrating legacy systems with the Pega Platform
• Experience with Root Cause Analysis in the Pega ecosystem to quickly address and fix system issues
• Ability to integrate with external systems of record with the Pega Platform
• Ability to understand an existing business process and collaboratively develop a more efficient and automated workflow

Required Skills:

  Java (8/11/17+) Expert-level proficiency with object-oriented design, functional programming concepts, and performance optimization..

  Spring Framework / Spring Boot  Deep experience developing microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Spring Data.

  Microservices Architecture  Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain distributed systems using microservice patterns.

  API Design & Integration  Skilled in developing RESTful APIs with proper documentation using OpenAPI/Swagger; experience integrating with internal and external services.

  Build & Dependency Management  Strong experience using  Maven  for dependency management, build lifecycle configuration, and plugin customization.

  Data Management  Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases, including schema design, query optimization, and transaction management.

Desired Skills:

  Microsoft Azure  Hands-on experience with Azure services such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Cosmos DB

  Containerization & Orchestration  Strong knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (AKS); experience with Helm charts, deployments, and scaling strategies.

  CI/CD Pipelines  Experience building automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions

  Monitoring & Logging  Experience with centralized logging (Datadog)

Candidates need to have the following:
1. Expert experience with Java.
2. Strong experience building microservices with Springboot.
3. Hands on experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.

Nice to have:
1. Experience with Azure, specifically AKS.
2. Experience with Github Actions.

This person will only be working on the backend of the application and will be responsible for developing and deploying microservices all the way to production. He/She will also be providing production support for all microservices.

Interview Process:
1. Technical coding interview with one of the tech leads.
2. One more technical interview with a team member.
3. In person interview with hiring manager at Alpharetta location.

*Candidates are expected to have cameras on and screen share for virtual technical interviews*

Candidates need to reside locally to the Alpharetta office to go into office three times a week if selected.

Please focus on candidates that do not require sponsorship.