Full-Stack Software Engineer Expert (Java/Spring Boot)

Job Summary:

The Software Engineer Expert architects and designs their digital products using modern tools, technologies, frameworks, and systems. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage running their application in lower environments and support production, and ultimately becomes accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving KPIs. The Software Engineer Expert plans, directs, designs, and executes IT-related activities and programs that are of a complex and critical nature.

Key Responsibilities:

•    Participate in product scoping, discovery and framing, and inceptions providing technical input and helps translate user features into system design.
•    Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager.
•    Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups.
•    Leads the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product.
•    Leads collaboration and strategy alignment across product portfolios (cross-product) in partnership with product managers, other peers, and key stakeholders.
•    Serves as an expert on multiple business domain and a distinguished advocate of multiple technology stacks and shares that knowledge across organizations.
•    Serves as the anchor of the team and practices technical leadership; helping guide the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team.
•    Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products.
•    Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices.
•    Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the CompoZed Labs community.
 

Education and Experience:

•    4-year bachelor’s degree (Preferred)
•    7 or more years of experience (Preferred)
•    In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
 

Functional Skills:

•    Hands on experience and accountability architecting, designing, implementing, and delivering large scale distributed systems and/or applications for the cloud, including microservices architectures and 12-factor principles.
•    7 years of developing and implementing systems at scale preferably in Java & Spring boot.
•    Strong Java development skills preferably with experience in Spring
•    Experience developing user interfaces with JavaScript, preferably with React / Redux 
•    Strong understanding of design patterns, object-oriented principles, and a desire to continuously improve code.
•    Solid understanding of distributed systems, REST principles, databases, and security best practices.
•    Experience and knowledge in developing REST APIs including tooling for documentation (swagger, REST-docs, openapi spec), versioning, service discovery/registration, testing and management; experience using API gateways a plus
•    Experience and knowledge in web and API security including authentication, authorization, OAuth, OWASP, OpenID, and SAML
•    Experience in backend development design and implementation; database (relational, NoSQL, caching), messaging and big data development, implementation and optimization
•    Experience in responsive web front end / single page application development using ReactJS, AngularJS, NPM, Lint frameworks etc., Exposure to building and supporting apps for mobile devices is a plus.
•    Knowledge and advanced experience using distributed version control systems (git), artifact management systems, build and packaging systems (maven, gradle, npm, artifactory, etc ) and continuous integration tools (Jenkins, TravisCI, Concourse, Bamboo, GoCD).
•    Actual experience working in an eXtreme Programming (XP) or agile environment; experienced working in
•    Experience/Knowledge with Cloud/ AWS a plus. 
 

Notes:

The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities. May be required to perform other related duties as assigned. Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this job.