Senior API Developer

Job Description

Bachelor's Degree, a Master's degree is preferred

- 7+ years of software and development experience in Java/J2EE in an Agile environment.

- 3+ years of strong 12 factor application development experience using REST API's

- Must have experience in XSLT, API, SOAP, Security, JavaScript, Full Stack, Docker, PaaS, microservices

- Experience deploying microservices into containers

- Experience working with Red Hat OpenShift or a similar container orchestration platform

- Strong object orientated analysis and design concepts.

- Strong understanding of Object modeling and deciphering custom and vendor supplied schemas.

- Experience working in a SAFe, Kanban, DevOps, or Agile/Scrum development methodology

- Experience with enterprise java applications and development frameworks

- Experience with Git and creating and manipulating YAML files

- Participation in the design, development, testing, deploying server and UI Screens using Java/J2EE

- Must have strong knowledge of API lifecycle management platforms.

- Role would also involve supporting the APIs developed after they are deployed in production

- Experience with frameworks for documenting/designing APIs (like Swagger).

- Experience building API's for both external and internal consumption

- The candidate needs to have a strong passion for learning new technologies and keep pace with rapidly evolving development paradigms like pair programming

- The candidate needs to meet challenging deadlines and thrive in a team setting

- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate with and mentor junior resources

- Knowledge of standard tools for developing, optimizing & testing code - Dynatrace, Cassandra, Selenium, Apache Kafka, Apache Camel, Active MQ, IBM MQ

Preferred

- Experience developing automated test suites and test data, Test Driven Development (TDD)

- Experience using Jenkins and CI/CD toolsets. Ability to customize provided sample project templates to project needs

- Experience working in an AWS environment and preferably containers

- Help set up deployments per provided guidance and procedural documentation

- Leverage the AWS cloud experience to troubleshoot deployments.

- Recent experience leading projects on Spring a plus

- Experience with business rule languages/technology is a plus

Previous experience with application system support is a plus.

- Airline industry experience is a plus.