Ridgefield Connecticut / United States

This is a contract position at our Client in Ridgefield, CT (Remote during Covid)

Note: This position would be remote during Covid.
Post Covid, candidate is expected to work onsite in Ridgefield, CT.

ALL CANDIDATES SHOULD BE ABLE TO WORK ON OUR W2.
NO 3^RD PARTIES PLEASE.

As part of (Nonclinical Drug Safety) NDS product team a Backend Engineer is needed to build a product to search and display data from multiple data sources and with multiple displays.
Development is needed through MVP and first next steps of the digital product.

• You will be responsible for defining and implementing the technical requirements of web application based on user stories.
  
• You will be developing and maintaining APIs and frameworks and using testing automation where possible.
  
• Responsible for ensuring development and coding standards and practices are implemented, as defined by the team
• You will work with frontend developers, UX designer, Data Engineer and Data Scientists in the development
• You work on various platform with different programming languages and supported the production cluster management system
• The routine application maintenance tasks executed as expected via strategy-building techniques
• You will work within a Scrum team to deliver product releases in an agile manner.
  

Skills:

• At least 3 years in a similar position building backend technologies
• Java experience required
• Springboot experience required
• SQL knowledge required
• Git experience required
• Experience developing REST APIs required
• Experience working with databases (ie Oracle, Postgres, MSSql) required.
  
• Experience with Postgres database preferred
• Python/Flask experience preferred
• Jenkins and Docker experience preferred
• Jira experience preferred
• Experience with databases and putting and retrieving information (SQL,graph databases) preferred
• Experience with big data technologies preferred (Hadoop/HDFS, Spark and Hive)
• Experience working on agile (scrum) teams

Education:

Bachelors Degree in IT related field preferred

Required Skills:

JAVA

SQL

GIT

REST

DATABASE

Additional Skills:

ORACLE

POSTGRES

USER STORIES

APACHE HADOOP HDFS

DATA SOURCES

DATABASES

DOCKER

DRUG SAFETY

ENGINEER

FLASK

HADOOP

HADOOP DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM

HDFS

HIVE

HP-UX

JENKINS

JIRA

MODEL-VIEW-PRESENTER

MVP

NDS

PYTHON

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

UNIX

UX