TalEx is partnering with a government services provider to identify multiple Senior Software Engineers for a new program.  These are contract to hire roles and are 100% remote.  Our client is seeking multiple Java Engineers to assist in the development, delivery and management of technology-based solutions. The Engineer(s) will be part of a team building sophisticated systems using emerging technologies to create innovative and high business impact solutions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze Requirements and design the application
• Code, test and implement configuration changes and assist in the design of software applications
• to meet both functional and technical requirements.
• Build data pipelines using Apache Spark, Scala, Python, Apache Airflow etc.
• Collaborate with User Experience and Engineering teams in the planning of new products
• Write unit tests and get close to 100% code coverage
• Work on AWS – S3 for storage, EC2 and EMR for processing/analysis
• Own and drive projects throughout all the SDLC phases and provide technical and process
• guidance to the team
• Ability to clearly understand and articulate complex problems.
• Able to support team for technical issues
• Identify problems and propose resolutions
• Ownership of technical designs, code development, and component test execution to
• demonstrate alignment to the functional specification
• Using configuration management and integration/build automation tools to lead and deploy code
• Applying knowledge of common, relevant architecture frameworks in defining and evaluating
• application architectures
• Performing code reviews and providing critical suggestions for fixes and improvements
• Supporting issue analysis and fix activities during test phases, as well as production issue
• resolution
• Fixing and performance tuning web and mobile based applications
• Developing and demonstrating a broad set of technology skills in multiple programming
• languages and various technologies
• Collaborating within a project team comprised of talented employees with diverse and
• complementary skills
• Very strong interpersonal skills able to work at all levels of the organization
• Provide coaching, mentoring and training to more junior developers as needed
• Follow Agile methodology for the software development

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years’ engineering experience; focus on back-end development and/or data
• engineering
• In-depth programming knowledge with Java, Python, and Scala
• Solid understanding of object-oriented design patterns, data structures, algorithms, MVC and
• concurrency/multi-threading
• Experience in building Microservices, Asynchronous Design, Event Based Programming,
• Reactive Programming patterns etc.
• Experience creating and consuming RESTful web services
• Proficient with APIs and Service Oriented Architecture
• Fundamental understanding of web‐based systems programming and development
• Strong understanding of core Java, Spring framework
• Java Microservice Architecture frameworks such as Spring Boot
• Experience with Spark, Hadoop, or HIVE
• Strong experience with AWS; including EC2, EBS, RedShift, EMR, ELB, SNS, RDS, CloudFormation, and more
• Container technologies – Docker / Kubernetes
• Experience with tools like Maven, Jenkins, Git
• Good practical knowledge of relational databases
• Understanding of relational databases and database structures, SQL and MySQL preferred
• Understanding of established software development life cycles
• Resolves technical issues through debugging, research and investigation
• Comfortable working with agile methodology and tools
• Ability to adapt well to diverse environments
• Ability to communicate clearly with all levels in an organization.
• A team player who is effective working remotely and independently and collaboratively
• Able to perform as an effective member of a geographically dispersed team across multiple time-zones

Highly desired but not mandatory skills:

• Agile development using Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with NiFi, AirFlow etc.
• Experience with Java 1.8 +, Reactive Java, Mockito, PoweMock, Lagom, Akka etc.
• Experience with Queue frameworks like ActiveMQ , Hazelcast, etc.
• Fundamental understanding of scale-out/high-availability architecture and low latency distributed messaging frameworks
• Understanding of infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers, storage, monitoring, security etc.) and have experience with orchestration to develop a cloud solution
• Good knowledge of AngularJS, HTML and CSS

 
Education/Certification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, Engineering or other Technical discipline, OR a minimum of 8 years equivalent work experience.

Desired Certifications:

• Certified Java Developer / Architect
• AWS certified developer
• Red Hat Certified Enterprise Microservices Developer