Java Software Engineer

Job Description Emp Type: W2 or 1099 (No C2C) Visa: H1B, OPT, H4EAD, GCEAD, L2, Green Card, US Citizens (Only USA Applicants) Workplace Type: Peoria, IL Experience: 10+ Yrs Position's Contributions to Work Group: This position reports to Software Engineering Manager, as do other staff jobs in application and technical systems and programming sections. Responsibilities: Assist in new program development and/or maintenance of existing mobile, WEB, Cloud, server, computing systems. Work as part of Agile team and participate in Scrum activities. Competent to perform all programming, development, integration and system administration assignments without close supervision. Design, code, test and debug programs of high complexity. Configure or customize purchased software solutions with high complexity. Provide project management, programming, systems, and/or system administration leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members. Work on more complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls. Work independently on complex processes and modules that may be used by one or more programs, systems, or in support of infrastructure component change management. Develop major system modules, programs or infrastructure released based on requirements gathered from system customers. Perform integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of system components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results. Fully knowledgeable of programming languages appropriate to the platform supported, program design and specification development, programming logic, logic diagrams, system analysis techniques, testing, debugging, documentation standards, file design, storage and internal systems. Perform integration tasks for in-house developed systems and/or purchased hardware and software solutions. Assist customers with documentation, training and usability efforts. Interaction with Team: Significant interaction required with Scrum team during all scrum ceremonies such as Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Grooming, Retro, Demo etc. Interact during PR Reviews and engage with other teams as needed. Education & Experience Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering or related field, plus 8+ years exp. Master's Degree plus 6+ years exp. Technical Skills (Required): 8+ years of software development experience, or at least eight years of experience with a master's degree in computer science or related field. 8+ years of experience designing and developing software applications in Java with a master's degree in computer science or related field. At least three years of experience developing in AWS: cloud formation templates, deploying ECS clusters, Lambda, Fargate, Amazon Elastic Search, S3. Strong understanding of IAM roles and policies. Proven experience in following, designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale. Three years of experience building and developing with Cloud Technologies (such as AWS, Azure, GCP). Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases. Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc. Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure Devops etc. Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure. Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum). Strong understanding and/or experience in batch or stream processing systems such as AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Kinesis. Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs. Hands-on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible. Test driven development and behavior driven development. Hands-on experience with testing tools such as Selenium and Cucumber and their integration into CI/CD pipelines. Datastores such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Oracle. Solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures and algorithms. Soft Skills (Required): Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints. Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment. Disqualifiers/Red Flags: No education and/or education without dates will not be considered. Resume shows a lot of frontend and no backend experience, they will not qualify. Candidate does not currently reside in local area but open to relocate on their dime, that must be clear on the resume. If resume does not have the candidate's current location of residence, they will be DQ. #J-18808-Ljbffr