Senior Java Backend Developer

Job Title: Senior Java Backend Developer

Job ID: 2022-11897

Job Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Employment Type: W2

Candidate Constraints:

Duration: Long Term

Work Eligibility: US Permanent Eligibility to Work Required

Key Technology: Java, Spring Boot, Bootstrap, Logback, Agile, Gradle

Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing and documenting detailed solution design within SDS and act as an application SME through the design and development lifecycle ensuring alignment with Architecture.
• May also be accountable for complex applications/systems development, programming/coding.
• Creates comprehensive end-to-end solution and coordinate relevant stakeholders, as required to support development initiatives.
• Develop functional, technical and user interface designs and code for applications/systems that meets the defined requirements (business, enterprise architecture direction, system performance and development standards).
• Consult on development of the System Requirements Specification (SRS) and apply functional knowledge of business functions to design optimal software/systems.
• Review technical deliverables throughout detailed design and development phase to ensure quality adherence and identify gaps or redesign requirements as needed.
• Work with the Technology Project Manager, Business Analysts/Systems Analysts, and other team members to define metrics and performance goals for the application.
• Comply with well-defined enterprise technology delivery practices and standards and project management disciplines, business technology architecture, and risk and production capacity.
• Deliver effective and efficient solutions by meeting key project milestones and ensure that the project deliverables are on time, within budget, and adhere to the corporate quality and security standards.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to quality, standards compliance, reusability and ease of maintenance.
• Ensure design leverages existing reusable components and has traceability to business requirements.
• Identify and address application and data issues and cross-capability and cross-release issues that affect application integrity.
• Continuously enhance knowledge/expertise in own area and keep current with leading edge technologies, emerging trends/developments.
• Prioritize and manage own workload to deliver quality results and meet timelines.
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the business unit and/or team.
• Establish effective relationships across multiple business and technology partners, program and project managers.
• Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units.
• Performs complex to difficult technical tasks independently.
• Works independently as the senior developer on a diverse range of activities and provides technical guidance to others to help resolve issues within area of expertise.
• Participate actively in the development of detailed, complex and/or comprehensive project plans and understands impact/risk of integrating third party solutions.

Skills and Experience Required:

Required Skills:

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in Java, including 2+ years of specific experience with Java 8.
• 3+ years of experience with Spring framework.
• Spring Boot experience.
• Developing REST endpoints (Spring Core with Annotation, Spring Boot Spring Rest docs).
• Good understanding of Spring Security & Authorization.
• 2+ years of experience with deployment automation tools: Jenkins or similar.
• 1+ years of experience with logging frameworks SLF4J & Logback or similar.
• 2+ years of experience in writing unit test cases with Junit 4.
• Experience working in AGILE methodology.
• Experience with build tools Gradle/Maven & Git version control – 2+ years.
• Twitter Bootstrap API and/or Foundation.

Desired Skills:

• Cloud deployment – Azure.
• Experience with sales onboarding application within a financial/banking domain.
• Exposure to responsive web application using Angular.
• Working experience in Enterprise/Financial Industry.
• Knowledge of bank and technology standards (e.g., infrastructure, architecture, processes, applications) is an asset.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Experience in WebSphere Application Server, JBoss and Tomcat.
• Angular experience.