Senior Backend Java Developer

Salary: starting at $140k + bonus

Location: Chicago, IL or Dallas, TX

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

*We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role*

*This permanent placement role is not open to C2C, Contract, or Contract to hire*

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• 8+ years of experience in building large scale, compute and event-driven solutions.
• Experience in Java 11+
• Experience developing software using Object Oriented Designs, advance patterns (like AOP) and multi-threading is required.
• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
• Experience following Git workflows
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.
• Experience with distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.

Responsibilities

• Actively participates and leads requirement analysis and reviews to identify missing or incomplete requirements.
• Actively participates in design of highly performing, scalable, secure, reliable and cost optimized solutions.
• Primary responsibility is application design and development of next gen clearing applications for business requirements in agreed architecture framework and Agile environment.
• Thoroughly analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation.
• 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.
• Performs thorough code-reviews based on high engineering standards
• Writes unit and integration tests based on chosen test frameworks.
• Performs application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements.
• Assists Production Support by providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required.