Entry Level Java Software Engineer Jobs in Minneapolis, MN

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Sr. Java Developer

12 months contract

Richfield, MN

Job Description: 

Tell me about your department:

Enterprise Availability and Reservation Team builds back-end Restful services to drive a portion of our online store. These services are purely API driven with no user interface. These services integrate with enterprise services for data transfer via real time APIs, queues, and files.

You may be the ideal candidate for our team if: 

You enjoy pair programming in a TDD and Agile environment with senior level engineers.

You are enthusiastic and excited about technology. 

You enjoy brainstorming design ideas and understand you may not have the only or best solution.

You strive for the ideal with a strong pragmatic leaning.

You are open and honest and willing to share and accept feedback and ideas.

You are positive and optimistic. Setbacks and constraints motivate you to work harder.

You are willing to part of the on-call support rotation.

Project Description: 

Technical business analysis for back-end web services.

This person will act as a flexible resource, interacting with both the development team as well as different teams across multiple products and projects. 

A primary duty of this role is communicating behavior outwards rather than intake of new functionality, but the latter is also part of the role.

Position Overview:

Responsibilities/Deliverables that the resource will be responsible for: 

Pair Programming 50-75 % (willingness to pair program)

Developing Restful applications

Performance testing and subsequent tuning of web services including caches, web servers and data stores

Building highly scalable and performing web applications

Refactoring

TDD

On-Call- rotating schedule

What would a normal day for this position look like??

Pair programming 50-75% Daily stand ups

Working on functionality

Design/ coding

Skills Overview:

What are the MUST have skills that you are looking for in a candidate?

Required Experience 

8 years of relevant systems software engineering experience

Excellent communication skills and a quick learner

Experience building highly scalable and performing web applications (candidate understands considerations for state, session management, caching, consistency, concurrency, threading, and inter-system dependencies)

Highly proficient in industry current software development techniques (patterns, principles, and processes)

Advanced expertise in developing REST web services using Groovy, Java, Jersey, and Spring.

Aggressive Refactoring 

Experience working in Linux for deployment and production support.

Excellent social skills for interacting in a highly collaborative work environment.

Candidate must be prepared to pair program in a TDD (spock preferred) and Agile environment with senior level engineers.

BS/MS in computer science or engineering (or equivalent professional experience)

Preferred Experience 

Proficient in Mac OS and/or IntelliJ for development

Any level of experience with NoSQL data stores (Riak, Cassandra, etc.) and/or Splunk is a plus.

Spock- TDD

Knowledge of and working experience with open source software (e.g. Apache, Tomcat, etc.).

Experience performance testing and subsequent tuning of web services including caches, web servers and data stores.

Experience with Cloud Computing platforms (e.g. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine, Hadoop, etc.)

DevOps infrastructure experience (chef, puppet, open stack)

What are the technologies and the depth of the technologies that a candidate must have in order to be successful in this role? 

1. REST web services using Groovy, Java, Jersey, and Spring, JSON

1. Proficient in Mac OS and/or IntelliJ for development- Preferred

2. Any level of experience with NoSQL data stores (Riak, Cassandra, etc.) and/or Splunk is a plus-Preferred

3. DevOps infrastructure experience (chef, puppet, open stack)- Preferred

What are the soft skills that you feel candidates must-have in order to be successful in this role? 

1. Excellent social skills and verbal communication for interacting in a highly collaborative work environment.

2. You enjoy pair programming in a TDD and Agile environment with senior level engineers.

3. You are enthusiastic and excited about technology. 

4. You enjoy brainstorming design ideas and understand you may not have the only or best solution.

5. You strive for the ideal with a strong pragmatic leaning.

6. You are open and honest and willing to share and accept feedback and ideas.

7. You are positive and optimistic. Setbacks and constraints motivate you to work harder.

8. You are willing to part of the on-call support rotation.

Bachelors or Masters Degree