The Senior Software Engineer will be working as Java/Spring Server-side engineer to design, code and maintain web applications, apis and infrastructure components. Must be comfortable working in a team as well as individual contributor with minimal supervision.
Primary/Major Accountabilities
Responsible for designing and coding highly efficient and scalable software.
Accountable for refactoring and improving maintainability of the codebase.
Works on troubleshooting production issues and providing resolution.
Responsible for solving complex scalability, platform, and integration problems.
Perform other duties as assigned.
Knowledge/Experience
Minimum 4 Year / Bachelors Degree Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or foreign equivalent) required
Required Experience
Should be proficient in both application development, application support and maintenance of
production system.
Minimum 7-10 years of application design and development experience
Expert level knowledge and experience with Java
Expert level knowledge and experience with Spring Framework
Expert knowledge and experience of developing and consuming Web Services using REST and
SOAP.
Expert knowledge with Spring boot micro-service, Spring Cloud, API development and API
security
Experience working in relational databases: MySQL/Oracle/Postgres
Experience with Web and Application Servers, Tomcat preferred.
Experience writing unit and integration test, preferred Junit, Mockito.
Experience supporting and troubleshooting systems and software running in Prod.
Preferred Skills:
Experience with Agile Scrum
Experience with TDD and Pair Programming
Experience with modern CI/CD tools and deployment pipelines
Experience with Git/Bitbucket
Experience with AWS
Experience with containerization tools like Docker, Kubernetes
Experience with Full stack development using HTML5, Java Script,Type Script, AngularJS.
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