Mid Level Java Developer Jobs in Clayton, NC (NOW HIRING)

A Software Engineer will develop, maintain and support new or existing software products while applying the best practices of software development. Responsibilities include the ability to work independently and as part of a larger team to deliver quality solutions across all phases of the software lifecycle, and all the layers of a software solution.

Essential Functions (90%)

• Quality (20%):
• Meet or exceeds 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 or conduct system testing, performance, volume, and stress testing
• Usability/User Experience (15%):
• Collaborate with business and/or UX team to create appropriate application User interfaces
• Assist with mock-ups, user interface design
• Incorporate UX components into application
• Provide feedback to UX team
• Product Reliability & Response (15%):
• Ensure system can meet or exceed defined SLAs
• When primary on-call respond to pages within 15min, and resolve or escalate issue as necessary
• Resolve production issues and communicate resolution to appropriate stakeholders
• Development (40%):
• Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met
• Conduct necessary analysis, design and prepare technical documentation
• Estimate story sizes and task out development for a given story
• Follow the client development process and suggest improvements
• Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications
• Leadership (Technical) (10%):
• Evangelize the client common practices and development procedures
• Exhibit technical leadership in given technical subject domain
• Mentor peers and junior developers
• Delegate, and coordinate functional development tasks as needed
• Drive innovation in the development, release and operations processes

Measurable Objective Metrics

Experience:

• Work closely with QAs and BAs to understand business needs and complete user stories in a timely manner.
• Be willing to work on more than one application at a time depending on business priority.
• Follow coding standards and best practices while working on user stories. Ensure code written meets 80% or more unit test coverage.
• Review complex designs with application architect and other developers before beginning implementation.
• Mentor junior team members, do code reviews, make sure they are following coding standards and best practices.
• Be willing to carry support pager and be part of on-call pager rotation which may include applications not just supported by the team but also by other teams. This requires supporting applications outside of regular working hours.
• Participate in quarterly maintenance activities which is done outside of regular working hours to support infrastructure team.

Skills:

• Core:
• Java – 6+ years
• Spring & Spring boot – 3+ years
• Databases – Relational/SQL – 3+ years
• Hibernate/Spring JPA (or similar ORM) - 3+yrs
• Git, Maven/Gradle, Jenkins, etc. – 4+ years
• Kubernetes/Docker - 2+ years
• JavaScript/NodeJS - 2+ years
• Angular 10+/Typescript - 2+ years
• NGRX / Reactive Programming
• Nice to have:
• Non-relational databases (document, key/value, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, etc.)
• AWS – Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, Kafka, other.
• Leaflet

Principles & Values:

• Teamwork: Lead of high level teamwork to support co-workers in handling and resolving multiple case loads through shared knowledge
• Reliability: Accountability to customers and co-workers by ensuring follow through and closure in addressing customer issues to their satisfaction
• Accountability: Take responsibility for actions; gives proper guidance and support at all times
• Excellence: Ability to resolve customer issues
• Passion: Positive company representative at all times as the initial representative supporting customers
• Innovation: Ability to identify different ways of resolving customer problems (issues) – create new solutions – improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Cost Control: Focus on improving

Success Factors (KSAs): Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Minimum Requirements
• Works under deadlines and subject to heavy project load
• Ability to explain concepts with technical staff
• Ability to work independently but also works effectively with all co-workers; team player.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize (professionally handle issues and assignments in various stages of resolution on an on-going basis)
• Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively
• Demonstrated high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong JAVA fundamentals, good design skills
• Minimum of 2 years technical experience
• Education
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired
• Full life cycle projects, agile preferred
• Experience with Spring, Hibernate (ORM), MQ, Oracle preferred
• UI experience - JavaScript, Jquery, CSS preferred

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work: assignment involves sitting at workstation (desk) most of the time (up to 8 hours) with only occasional walking and/or standing
• Keyboarding: Primarily using fingers for typing
• Talking: Expressing or communicating verbally through use of spoken words (accurately conveying detailed or important spoken instructions to others)
• Hearing: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations in sound.
• Visual: Through close visual acuity, required to perform activities such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing computer terminal; extensive reading (with or without correction)
• Environment: work is performed within an office setting and therefore no substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions (i.e. extreme heat, cold, noise, etc.)