job summary:
Our client is looking for a Senior Java Developer to joining their growing team. This person will be part of the R&D division and will performing new development on their flagship product. Ideal candidate for this role will have a strong background in back-end java development, experience in deploying to the cloud along with API experience.
location: Saint Paul, Minnesota
job type: Permanent
salary: $100,000 - 150,000 per year
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: No Degree Required
responsibilities:
- Work with other developers and architects to translate user stories into robust software services and solutions
- Work closely with Business Analysts, Project Managers, Developers and Architects to breakdown tasks and provide estimates in an Agile software development lifecycle.
- Serve as a technical expert on software development projects within a business.
- Ability to lead the full development life cycle from business requirements to production release.
- Support, maintain, and document software functionality, including oversight of the same for more junior developers.
- Identify, evaluate and champion new technologies for implementation
- Work closely with 1st and 2nd level support organizations to identify, analyze and resolve reported issues. Assigning tasks to other team members as appropriate.
- Design, develop, document, test, and debug new and existing software systems and/or applications.
- Analyze and review code of more junior developers to find causes of errors and recommend solutions.
- Lead software design reviews in major areas of expertise.
- Ability to consult with end users to prototype, refine, test, and debug applications to meet user needs.
- Capable of working independently and leading a group of developers
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
qualifications:
- Strong Communication Skills both written and verbal
- Able to work well independently and with a team
- Must be willing to work in an matrixed environment
skills:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a combination of related education and experience
- 5-8+ years of software development experience. Experience in Java is a must.
- The ideal candidate also has experience working with either a .NET technology stack or experience with Microsoft Azure cloud deployments.
- Sr. Level developer in an agile development environment, capable of working independently and with other developers
- Proven track record of driving forward architectural concepts, implementations and technology stack migrations
- Experience with hosted business to consumer Web services
- Strong knowledge of SOA and REST
- Strong experience building scalable software solutions and distributed systems
- Experience with Private, Public and Hybrid Cloud Architectures and Infrastructure deployments (AWS or Azure experience a plus).
- Experience working in a TDD and Continuous Integration environment
- Experience in providing solutions in a multi-tenant environment and working with large data sets.
- Experience writing, tuning and debugging medium-to-large scale database applications in SQL Server or Oracle, including demonstrated proficiency in designing and tuning database schemas and queries
- Experience with Atlassian tool set (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket) a plus
- Some front-end development experience a plus
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