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DataStaff, Inc is seeking a Java Developer for a contract-to-hire opportunity with one of our direct clients located in Cary, NC
*This role is hybrid; 3 days per week will be on-site (Mondays and Fridays remote)
Job Description:
Responsibilities include the ability to work independently and as part of the leadership group of a larger team to deliver quality solutions across all phases and layers of the software lifecycle.
Job Accountability/Responsibilities:
Quality:

• Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests.
• Minimize the number of production escapes.
• Support user acceptance testing.
• Support and conduct system/performance/volume/stress testing.

Usability/User Experience:

• Collaborate with business and/or UX team to create appropriate user interfaces.
• Assist with mock-ups and user interface design.
• Incorporate UX components into applications.
• Provide feedback to UX teams.

Product Reliability & Response:

• Ensure the system can meet or exceed defined SLAs.
• When acting as the primary on-call, respond to pages within 15 minutes and resolve or escalate issues as necessary.
• Resolve production issues and communicate resolutions to appropriate stakeholders.

Development:

• Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met.
• Conduct analysis and design work.
• Prepare technical documentation.
• Estimate work effort (story pointing) and task-out development effort for a given story or task.
• Follow the development process and suggest improvements.
• Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications.

Leadership (Technical):

• Evangelize common practices and development procedures.
• Exhibit technical leadership in a given technical subject domain.
• Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve our quality, productivity, and capabilities.
• Mentor peers and junior developers.
• Delegate and coordinate functional development tasks as needed.
• Drive innovation in the development, release, and operations processes.

Knowledge, Skills, abilities/minimum requirements/competencies:

• Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts to technical staff.
• Ability to operate independently of supervision with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience in defining requirements, designing, and illustrating process flows, and training users.
• Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization including documentation of application requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively.
• Ability to mentor others.
• 7 years of Java experience.
• Comfortable with front-end, middle tier and back-end technologies.
• Experience in front-end technologies like Angular or equivalent.
• Expertise in Spring and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience building containerized applications; Kubernetes experience a plus.
• Knowledge of networking concepts such as DNS, HTTP APIs, and managing REST services.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology.
• Expertise in using version control software like Git.
• Experience with handling deployment processes, deployment environments, production application troubleshooting techniques etc.
• Experience working with AWS cloud native services like S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ELB, SNS, SQS and Route53 is a plus.
• Experience deploying application components in AWS EKS clusters.
• Experience using relational and NoSQL databases. Experience with Aurora RDS, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB is a plus.
• Experience with security concepts such as handling JWT tokens and understanding OIDC flows.
• Experience working with messaging and MQ brokers is a plus.
• Experience in using Infrastructure-as-Code technology, like Terraform, is a plus.

Education, experience, certification/training:

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience or
• Master s degree in computer science or equivalent field desired and 3 years of technical experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a development environment.
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification will be a plus.

This opportunity is available as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.