Senior Software Engineer

Mastech Digital is an IT Staffing and Digital Transformation Services company.

Mastech Digital provides digital and mainstream technology staff as well as Digital Transformation Services for all American Corporations. We are currently seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our client in the Transportation domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth. This is a Contract position, and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

Location: Cary, NC

Role: Senior Software Engineer

Primary Skills: J2EE

Role Description: The Senior Software Engineer must have at least 10+ years of experience. 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:

1. 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:

1. Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests.
2. Minimize the number of production escapes.
3. Support user acceptance testing.
4. Support or conduct system testing, performance, volume, and stress testing.

Usability/User Experience:

1. Collaborate with business and UX team to create appropriate application User interfaces.
2. Assist with mock-ups, user interface design.
3. Incorporate UX components into application.
4. Provide feedback to UX team.

Product Reliability & Response:

1. Ensure system can meet or exceed defined SLA's.
2. When primary on-call respond to pages within 15min, and resolve or escalate issue as necessary.
3. Resolve production issues and communicate resolution to appropriate stakeholders.

Development:

1. Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met.
2. Conduct necessary analysis, design, and prepare technical documentation.
3. Estimate story sizes and task out development for a given story.
4. Follow the company development process and suggest improvements.
5. Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications.

Leadership (Technical):

1. Evangelize company common practices and development procedures.
2. Exhibit technical leadership in given technical subject domain.
3. Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve our quality, productivity, and capabilities.
4. Mentor peers and junior developers.
5. Delegate, and coordinate functional development tasks as needed.
6. Drive innovation in the development, release, and operations processes.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

1. Works under deadlines and subject to heavy project load.
2. Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff.
3. Ability to operate independent of supervision with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
4. Experience in defining requirements, designing, and illustrating process flows, and training users.
5. Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization – including documentation of application requirements.
6. Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively.
7. Ability to mentor others.
8. 7 years of Java/J2EE Web Development experience.
9. Comfortable with front-end, middle tier and backend technologies.
10. Expertise in front-end technologies like Angular, Spring MVC or equivalent, hands-on experience in these technologies a must in last 3 years.
11. Expertise in Spring, Spring Boot and Hibernate or equivalent ORM, hands-on experience in these technologies a must in last 2 years.
12. Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes environment, hands-on experience in building docker applications.
13. Web Service SOAP/REST expertise, especially as a service provider.
14. MDB/MDP/Broker/Service Bus MQ technologies development experience in last 2-3 years is a plus. If just familiar with MQ or has minimal experience, needs to be really strong in specific front-end, backend technologies of Struts/Spring/Hibernate.
15. Experience with Agile software development methodology.
16. Expertise in using version control software like Git, etc.
17. Strong understanding of deployment processes, deployment environments, production application troubleshooting techniques.
18. Experience working with AWS cloud native services like S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ELB, SNS, SQS and Route53 will be a plus.
19. Experience deploying application components in AWS EKS cluster and debugging any issues will be a plus.
20. Experience using Aurora RDS for database will be a plus.
21. Experience using Amazon MQ for message broker service will be a plus.

Education & Experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience.
2. Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 3 years of technical experience.
3. Minimum of 10+ years of experience in a development environment.
4. AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification will be a plus.

Relocation: This position will not cover relocation expenses.

Travel: No

Local Preferred: Yes

Note: Must be able to work on a W2 basis (No C2C).