Java Developer

JOB DESCRIPTION | Software Engineer | Rose International

Job Title: Software Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL

Duration: 13 months

Must-Have Skills

·        Agile

·        AWS

·        Java

·        Jenkins

·        Microservices

·        NoSQL

Education Requirements:

·        Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field is required with 10  years’ experience 

·        Master’s degree with 8  years’ experience

Required Skills for the Software Engineer:

·        10  years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java.

·        Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.

·        Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.

·        Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.

·        Deploying software using CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GoCD, etc

·        Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.

·        Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum)

·        Experience with AI tools is a BIG PLUS**

Should have a strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following:

·        Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ.

·        Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs

·        Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible o Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development.

·        Hands on experience with testing tools such as Cucumber and Selenium and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.

·        Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle. o Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc

·        Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms 

Software Engineer Overview:

The main function of a software engineer is to apply the principles of computer science and mathematical analysis to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers work. A typical software engineer researches, designs, develops and tests software. 

Responsibilities:

·        Modify existing software written in Java, databases and database management systems.

·        Create service software, unit and integration tests.

·        Work as part of a project team to coordinate software development and determine project scope and limitations.

·        Review project requests describing user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project.