Senior Java Developer (Remote)

Our customer is a fashion specialty retailer founded on a simple idea: offer each customer the best possible service, quality, value, and selection.

The successful candidate is a skilled individual able to provide valuable technical expertise to our projects and production support for the customer’s selling systems.

The main pool of tasks is associated with help in design/implementation/support/enhancement of the customer’s ecosystem on-prem, in Kubernetes and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Develop modern, large scale services and modern web-based tools and applications for use by internal teams in a fast-paced Retail environment
• Improvement and support of existing services and applications
• Working with onsite/customer team members, build distributed systems that integrate with a larger data and services ecosystem
• Desire to have full ownership of the entire SDLC from conception through build and deployment, to ongoing production operational support
• Work in a true Agile environment where all team members are expected to own the solution including deployment, testing, quality, monitoring and operational excellence
• Strive for continuous improvement of code quality and development practices
• Anticipate system/application challenges, present valid arguments, and propose solutions for the identified challenges or already existing problems
• Contribute to story sizing and work estimates for implementation, validation, delivery and documentation
• Review user stories to ensure a quality user experience, well-defined acceptance criteria and thorough test coverage
• Participate in design and code review to ensure quality and testability of feature code
• Implement build, deployment and test automation to ensure high quality and enable continuous delivery
• Adjust positively to quickly changing priorities and shifting goals
• Understand, leverage and applies best practices effectively
• This position may be required to perform other related duties as assigned

Requirements

• 4+ years of current professional experience working with Core Java / Java EE
• Knowledge of Spring Framework
• Experience with Web services (REST, SOAP)
• Experience with messaging/streaming apps
• Experience with basic Java concurrency
• Knowledge of SQL
• Knowledge of basic Shell scripting
• Ability to create/document design for a feature
• English level of B1 or better

Technologies

• Java 8 & 11
• Spring
• SOAP/REST
• Oracle DB
• SQL (Oracle flavor)
• GitLab
• AWS (S3, EC2, EMR)
• Kafka
• Kubernetes (for newer services)
• Splunk, Datadog, NewRelic