Java Backend Developer

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.