Software Engineer Lead - Contractor

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Software Engineer Lead

Provide locations: Pittsburgh,PA

Length of Assignment: 6 months

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Core Java & Backend Development
• API Development
• Frameworks & Libraries
• Database & SQL ------------------------------------------
  
  

Must Have Technical Skills:

• Java development experience
• Strong proficiency in Java (Java 8 )
• Solid understanding of: Object Oriented Programming (OOP), Design patterns (Factory, Singleton, DAO, etc.), & Exception handling, multithreading, and collections
• Experience building scalable, maintainable backend services
• Strong experience designing and developing RESTful APIs
• Hands on with Spring Boot / Spring MVC
• API design best practices: HTTP methods, status codes, Request/response validation, Versioning strategies
• Experience with JSON, request serialization/deserialization
• Familiarity with API documentation tools (Swagger / OpenAPI)
• API testing using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or similar
• Spring Framework (Core, Boot, MVC)
• Data Power
• ORM frameworks such as: Hibernate / JPA
• Experience with Microservices architecture is strongly preferred
• Strong hands on experience with SQL
• Experience with relational databases such as: Oracle or Teradata DevOps
• Experience with Maven / Gradle
• Version control using Git/bitbucket
• CI/CD exposure (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, udeploy etc.)
• Basic knowledge of Linux/Unix environments ------------------------------------------
  
  

Flex Skills/Nice to Have:

• Experience deploying applications on: Application servers (Tomcat, WebLogic, etc.) & Containers (Docker – preferred)
• Ability to write and optimize: Complex joins, Subqueries, Stored procedures (nice to have)
• Dependency Injection and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) Ref: #404-IT Pittsburgh