Senior Back End Engineer (Java)

Xoriant; Illinois; On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting company looking for experienced back-end developers to implement RESTful APIs and software solutions in a collaborative team environment. Candidates should have 8+ years of experience in Java development and expertise in Agile frameworks. Responsibilities include designing and developing high-quality software, troubleshooting production issues, and enforcing best practices. Communication and interpersonal skills are essential for team interaction and project success.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on java back-end software development experience.
• Strong experience developing RESTful APIs with Java 17, Spring Boot, Spring Batch and Hibernate.
• Experience writing unit, mutation, integration, and end-to-end tests.

Responsibilities

• Implement stories and collaborate with partners to deliver RESTful APIs.
• Design, develop, test, and support software solutions.
• Implement and recommend software development best practices.

Skills

Java back-end development

RESTful APIs

Spring Boot

Hibernate

Agile methodologies

Unit testing

MSSQL

AWS

Communication skills

Education

BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Bamboo

GitHub/GitActions

Kafka

Job description

Implement stories and collaborate with partners to deliver RESTful APIs, common frameworks, and libraries for data quality, data observability and data transformation that can be used across different applications in Wealth Management Engineering by designing, developing, testing, and support. Implement and recommend software development best practices as a go-to development partner for the scrum team members. Build the services and features required for each assigned story including the skills and tools below.

Required qualifications

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of hands-on java back-end software development experience.
• Strong experience developing RESTful APIs with Java 17, Spring Boot, Spring Batch and Hibernate.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented principals and design patterns.
• Experience writing unit, mutation, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Understanding of Agile frameworks, including experience participating in a Scrum-based delivery team.
• Experience with continuous integration and delivery tools, such as Bamboo and GitHub/GitActions.
• Relational database experience within MSSQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle.
• Understanding cloud-native enterprise applications deployed in PCF, AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Experience detecting, troubleshooting, and remediating issues affecting production applications.
• Proven experience in building high-quality software by enforcing software development best practices, including code reviews, and adherence to coding standards.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including team interaction and communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Application performance evaluation and tuning skills.
• Experience in building nonfunctional frameworks or libraries.
• Experience using messaging queues and streaming technologies, such as Kafka and rMQ.
• Non-relational DB experience.
• Wealth Management and/or Financial Services industry experience.
• Ability to quickly learn & become proficient with new technologies.