Senior software engineer

Primary Talent Partners has a 24-month W2 contract for a Software Engineer with our great financial services client.

• Pay: $65-75/hr
• Location: O'Fallon MO
• Assignment Length: W2 contract through 10/31/2026, possible extension based on performance, needs/budget of team, etc.

Technical Skills Required

1. Java, Advanced Java (Webservices, Spring, Spring Boot)
2. Database
3. Splunk

Desired/Nice to Have Technical Skills

1. Cloud Knowledge, PCF
2. Dynatrace

We are searching for new team members with first-hand experience of developing and deploying secure, performant, reliable, resilient, distributed applications both in private and public cloud platforms. You will have the boundless energy, enthusiasm, and drive to deliver the next phase of this mission-critical transformation.

Role Responsibilities

• Hands-on developer who writes high quality, secure code that is modular, functional and testable.
• Create or introduce, test, and deploy new technology to optimize the service.
• Perform system maintenance, production incident problem management, identification of root cause, remediation of the problems and on-call pager support schedule.
• Select appropriate technical frameworks and solution delivery methodology.
• Adapt to the technical artifact templates per the needs of the project and technology. Contribute ideas to help ensure that required standards and processes are in place. Maintain solution and technology road maps.
• Research and evaluate current and upcoming technologies and frameworks.
• Contribute to all parts of the software's development including design, development, documentation, and testing.
• Have strong ownership of your team's software and are deep in the maintenance characteristics, runtime properties and dependencies including hardware, operating system, and build.
• Must have the ability to work in a team, with collaboration providing more cross-functionality with other internal/external teams.
• Should have a working understanding of data centre-based and cloud infrastructure components including elements such as how software is networked to running virtual networks.
• Experience in building and maintaining an efficient, cost-effective, fault-tolerant server-side infrastructure.
• Most importantly, we are looking for a technically strong, hands-on engineer, who has desire to: 1) constantly learn more about new toolstack like AWS/Azure 2) work within a Client technology stack (PCF, NiFi, NATS, Kafka, Zookeeper, Splunk, Redis, Cassandra, Oracle) and simplify the usage of these new tools by creating common libraries, interfaces to use the new toolstack efficiently 3) maintain and extend existing infrastructure and perform the tuning activities based on the need of the application, 4) take pride in overall product quality, and 5) work with others, including software engineers and product managers to build the best products in the industry.

About You

• Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures and core computer science concepts.
• Understands the basic engineering principles used in building and running mission critical software capabilities (security, customer experience, testing, operability, simplification, service-oriented architecture).
• Evidence of working with object-oriented development and design patterns.
• Proficiency in multiple modern programming languages such as Java, SpringBoot framework, RDBMS - Oracle, Webservice development.
• Has skills to author test code with lots of smaller tests followed by few contract tests at service level and fewer journey tests at the integration level (Test Pyramid concept).
• Strong written and verbal English communications skills.
• Strong analytical and excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience with XP, TDD and BDD in the software development processes.
• Proficiency with cloud technologies (IaaS, PaaS, serverless technology, NoSQL databases), micro-service design, CI/CD, DevOps.
• Expert in modern software design principles such as SOLID, DRY, and Single responsibility.