Java Architect

Responsibilities

• Innovate with new, creative ideas and outside the box thinking to help solve train dispatching challenges.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to your software development teams and ensure adherence to best practices and standards.
• Define and document software architecture and design principles for various applications and systems, ranging from logistics and dispatching to safety and security.
• Delegate development efforts among multiple teams each with varying infrastructure, challenges, priorities, and talent.
• Conduct code reviews, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of software issues.
• Lead technical discussions around design and code reviews.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management to estimate and plan releases, including participating in high-level planning at a yearly roadmap level.
• Coordinate with other development/business teams on simultaneous product delivery.
• Author comprehensive and visually appealing detail design documentation outlining the technical details to satisfy business requirements.
• Craft production-quality code using standard development methodologies.
• Design and build microservices with software-as-a-service design paradigms.
• Report, clearly document and track issues found from detection to resolution/mitigation.
• Demonstrate perseverance while discovering and analyzing outage/issue root causes.
• Diagnose train dispatcher issues and assist dispatching/systems support teams as needed.
• Provide requirements tracing from design, through development and testing, and into production for any defects.
• Secure all artifacts of software using current known security mitigation techniques.
• Maintain legacy application viability and publicizing of tribal knowledge.
• Research and evaluate new technologies and tools to improve software performance, security, and scalability.
• Mentor and coach junior developers and share knowledge and expertise.

Qualifications

• 10 years of software development and leadership experience.
• 5 years leading by example by writing clean, efficient, quality code using industry frameworks.
• 5 years of experience designing and building full-scale applications using a microservice-based approach.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Strong desire to learn and grow.
• Ability to adapt and flex to take on different challenges.
• Knowledge of programming fundamentals and development methodologies.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including ability to create clear and concise written communications.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, jQuery, Windows WPF)
• Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e.g. C#, Java) and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. Angular, React, Node.js)

Flexible work from home options available.
Compensation: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour
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