Sr. Associate, Software Engineering (Java)

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Contribute to front-end design, Back-end design, technical direction and documentation including collaborating with various teams to build fit for purpose solutions
• Participates in code reviews, proactively identifying and mitigating potential issues and defects as well as assisting with continuous improvement
• Help drives continuous improvement efforts by identifying and championing practical means of reducing time to market while maintaining high quality
• Must be a willing self-starter, independent and comfortable with a fast paced, dynamic environment
• A team player who assists the team as required to achieve collective goals & delivery milestones including knowledge-share
• Embraces and advocates for Agile best practices for software development discipline (be true to Agile Manifesto)
• Actively participates in creation and review of both business and technical user stories, providing constructive feedback and input on both work effort estimation as well as architecture/design improvements
• Integrating disparate data from REST and WebSocket services within a cohesive user interface.
• Participating in innovative design and proof of concepts with emerging technologies and solutions
• Embrace industry best practices like continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, TDD etc.
• Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented.
• Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen DevOps frameworks.
• Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements.
• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required
• Assist with departmental and new employee training
• Coordinate and Address Security Vulnerabilities.

Qualifications

• · 2+ years of Front End/Back End Java development
• · 2+ years of experience in JavaScript skills
• · 1+ years of experience in Spring framework
• · 1+ years of hands-on HTML5/CSS3 experience
• · Experience with popular Javascript frameworks such as React, Node JS, Vue, Angular 2.0
• · Experience of working with websockets, HTTP 1.1 and HTTP/2
• · Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON RPC
• · Ability to write clean, bug-free code that is easy to understand and easily maintainable
• · Experience with BDD methodologies & automated acceptance testing
• ·  ‘Get stuff done’ and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization.
• · Intellectually curious and eager to learn.

Technical Skills

• · 2+ years of Front End/ Backend Java development
• · 2+ years of experience in JavaScript skills
• · 1+ years of experience in Spring Framework
• · 1+ years of hands-on HTML5/CSS3 experience
• · 1+ years working in Cloud environment.
• · Experience with popular Javascript frameworks such as React, Node JS, Vue, Angular 2.0
• · Experience of working with websockets, HTTP 1.1 and HTTP/2
• · Experience with RESTful APIs and JSON RPC
• · Experience following Git workflows
• · Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.
• · Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics

Education and/or Experience

BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field required. Masters preferred.