Lead, IT Software Developer IV

At World Kinect, our employees are the key to our global success. We are industry leaders due to the innumerable talents of our approximately 5000 strong professional team. Our people thrive in an entrepreneurial and culturally-diverse environment, where innovative thinking, collaboration and efficient execution are highly valued. Our high-performance culture is what allows us to drive sustained growth. Stronger together, we promote an environment where individuals can thrive.
 

World Kinect Corporation is seeking a Lead Java Developer to help drive the development and delivery of our Enterprise document management flow end to end. In this role, the candidate is responsible for delivering software solutions for document Management integrated with a SAAS platform. The developer will work with Business Analysts and Architects primarily to outline solutions for the business needs and build APIs for implementing the solution for various client applications.

The key responsibilities include:

• Design and Delivery of complex software projects in an agile workflow.
• Architect and prototype new solutions and ideas
• Evaluate and provide technical solutions to complex problems in straightforward situations, analyze possible solutions using technical experience and
  judgment and previous experience.
• Uses discretion in identifying and responding to complex issues and assignments. 
• Review code of team members and provide technical feedback and/or other mentoring duties.
• Develop tests to validate code quality. Work with QA on developing testing processes, frameworks, and automation strategies.
• Scaling software as use of your application grows.
• Deal with the vendor company of the SAAS products in use by the squad and stay informed about the features offered and upcoming roadmap.
• Interface with Business, application owners, developers and project managers 
•  Organizes internal conferences / talks to share knowledge across squads.
• Stay up to date on the latest industry trends and look for ways to implement new ideas to continually improve your projects.

Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, or related discipline (significant work experience may be considered in lieu of degree)
• Expertise in Java and Java Enterprise technology applications architecture, design, development and support 

• Proven skills and Hands-on programming experience in Java, Spring Boot, multi-threading, REST, Data Caching Services, DB schema design and data access technologies 
• Experience with GraphQL, Intelligent document processing is an advantage.
• Experience rolling out distributed, large-scale, low latency web applications. 
• Establish security standards and practices to protect the service offering and in accordance with our Information Security guidelines. 
• Solid knowledge of applications performance improvement techniques and caching solutions 
• Strong knowledge of Agile software development best practices, unit testing, continuous integration, etc. 
• Experienced with Cloud Computing practice, DevOps, CI/CD tools & process (GIT/Bitbucket, Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Sonar), and Docker 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a commitment to engage and collaborate with people across a variety of levels with different backgrounds and tech experiences. 
• Communicate solutions clearly in both verbal and written communication to technical and non-technical peers and stakeholders. 
• Highly organized, able to manage time and work from a prioritized list of planned activities for the team. 

World Kinect is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.