Senior Java Engineer (potential for Tech Lead)

SouthTek Resources; West Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A tactical headhunting firm is seeking a Senior Java Engineer with the potential for a Tech Lead role. The position requires a strong technical background and experience in Java and Spring Core. This role includes designing REST services, mentoring team members, and providing technical leadership to ensure high-quality software solutions. An ideal candidate will have 5-7 years’ experience and excellent communication skills. The work location is preferred in Chicago’s suburbs, with flexibility for Jersey City, NJ.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years working with Spring Core, Java, and creating REST services & documentation.
• Demonstrated technical ability to create enhancements for web applications.
• Established track record of successful system and project implementations.

Responsibilities

• Design clear REST service interfaces and create documentation.
• Build and manage reliable software in a service-oriented environment.
• Provide technical leadership for the development team.

Skills

Strong technical background

Great communication skills

Ability to deliver simple software solutions

Results-oriented

Excellent problem solving abilities

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience with Spring Core and Java

Job description

Senior Java Engineer (potential for Tech Lead)

Contract

A world leader in predictive analytics and decision support solutions.

Senior Java Engineer (potential for Tech Lead) Role Description:

Engage in a development team engineering applications supporting business objectives. The suite of applications and services will support the functionality globally and enable the company's growing channels / clients.

Responsibilities

• Design clear and concise REST service interfaces, and create corresponding documentation.
• Build and manage reliable software in a service‑oriented environment, ensuring high performance, scalability and high reliability.
• Provide technical leadership for the development team at a technical development level.
• Recommend and champion policies, procedures, and standards and ensure their conformance with department and enterprise objectives.
• Engage with and mentor distributed software development teams.
• Provide hands‑on mentoring and coaching of developers.
• Ensure that the quality of the software solutions offered is high, including ensuring proposed software solutions that cost‑effectively meet internal customer’s objectives.
• Provide architectural expertise, direction, and assistance to business analysts and software developers.
• Effectively resolve production problems in a timely manner by rapidly organizing and deploying the appropriate resources.
• Continuously review problems to determine the root cause in order to prevent them in the future.
• Ensure appropriate disaster recovery procedures are followed and adequately tested on a regular basis.
• Ensure that secure coding practices are thoroughly enforced.
• Effectively communicate software solution expectations to internal customers, team members and other stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve development goals.
• Ensure alignment between prescribed architecture and the team’s goals and objectives.

Skills and Knowledge

• Strong technical background, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.
• Ability to deliver simple and elegant software solutions, customer‑centric products, utilizing agile development processes and establishing skills in designing and developing simple solutions to complex problems.
• Results‑oriented, customer‑focused with a passion to resolve tough technical and operational challenges.
• Ability to engage in a team of software development engineers and work with senior management, engineering principals, and the product team.
• Effectively help shape the business requirements, bring high quality customer experience to market by owning the development of and operating business critical software services.
• Possess excellent problem solving abilities.
• Inspire internal customer confidence in the technical abilities, service attitude, and business knowledge of the IT department.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
• A track record of communicating well with executives and non‑technical leaders.

Experience

• 5-7 years working with Spring Core, Java, and creating REST services & documentation.
• Demonstrated technical ability to create enhancements to primary and supporting websites, web applications and infrastructure.
• Proven experience in software development, maintenance and delivery with application server experience.
• Established track record of successful system and project implementations.
• Effectively translated complex customer requirements, recommended system solutions, and helped formulate detailed specifications.
• Demonstrated ability to document development including database design, application design and ongoing documentation of changes and modifications for complex applications.
• Effectively developed in distributed teams.
• Demonstrated experience with N‑tiered applications, multi‑tier architecture, and production internet architectures.
• Produced complex design and technical specifications as required for technical documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt to continuously changing technology.
• Experienced interacting with vendors.
• Experience with Scala helpful but not required.
• Location: Chicago IL suburb first choice, Jersey City NJ second choice.

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