Senior Java Developer

We are looking for Senior Java Developer for our client in Chicago, IL

Job Title: Senior Java Developer

Job Location: Chicago, IL

Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

Pay Range $45hour - $50hour

Duties:

• Work with customers to identify and refine business innovations and new concepts.
• Collaborate with team members to identify new enterprise platform capabilities.
• Evaluate and adopt the latest software technologies and components.
• Understand both business and technical requests and requirements and integrate those needs into our platform capabilities.
• Develops and defines platform scope and objectives and supervises the preparation of technical and functional specifications from with platform components will be developed.
• Develop robust, reusable and reliable platform components, which enhance our platform, frameworks and services.
• Implement improvements in stability, performance, and scalability.
• Define design and development standards and best practices to be followed by the Platform team.
• Grow the development team by exchanging knowledge and ideas with team members and other development teams.
• Reduce barriers and roadblocks in projects, services, and processes in order to operate more efficiently.
• Improve the performance of the team by regularly reviewing our activities and identifying new ways of working together.
• Work in cross-functional development environments to ensure our platform capabilities are used and supported in our products and services.
• Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
• Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed, and system is implemented according to plan.
• Coordinates on-call support and ensures effective monitoring of system.
• Owns the technical development environment.
• Mentors Developers.
• Lead multiple or medium to large sized projects.
• Facilitates group sessions to elicit complex information on requirements clarification, design sessions, code reviews and troubleshooting issues.
• Supports vendor evaluation.
• Provides troubleshooting support.

Experience: 

• 8+ years.

Must Haves:

• Minimum 6 years’ experience developing web services and deep understanding of SOA principles, HTTP, and REST.
• 2 + years’ experience as an Appian developer required or experience with other low-code application platforms or web development which would provide an equivalent level of experience.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience automating build and deployments in AWS using Jenkins CI/CD tools or equivalent.

Qualified Candidates will also have:

• BA/BS degree or technical institute training.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience with JAVA; expertise with SpringBoot/Springcloud; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
• Familiarity with RabbitMQ, Messaging patterns.
• Core understanding of development practices in container environments, such as Docker.
• Core understanding of SOLID principles.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor others, lead small projects and improve team performance.
• Demonstrated ability to provide troubleshooting support.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience with numerous design patterns.
• Multi-database, multi-programming language or multi-business application is preferred.

Nice To Have:

• Experience and knowledge of front-end frameworks such as NodeJS, AngularJS and ReactJS is highly desirable.
• Experience with Kibana logs, dashboards, visualization is desired.
• Experience and knowledge of Health Care Industry desired.
• Experience with MongoDB is highly desirable.
• Experience with contact center operations is helpful.