Remote Java Backend Developer Jobs in Illinois (NOW HIRING)

This is a fully remote position. The Senior Java Developer (Services Engineer Senior) is for the platform development team who will be responsible for all improvements and maintenance of the platform components throughout all phases of the development lifecycle. As developers grow in this role, opportunities exist to grow into team management and architecture roles.

Sponsorship is not available on this position.

Keys

• 5+ years related experience with Java (Java 8)
• Expertise with Spring Boot
• Expert in Spring Cloud
• MongoDB
• 3+ years developing web services and deep understanding of SOA principles, HTTP, and REST.

Job description

• Work with customers to identify and refine business innovations and new concepts.
• Collaborate with team members to identify new enterprise platform capabilities.
• Evaluate and adopt the latest software technologies and components.
• Understand both business and technical requests and requirements and integrate those needs into our platform capabilities.
• Develop robust, reusable and reliable platform components which enhance our platform, frameworks and services.
• Share ideas and concepts with our development teams to improve and extend our platform capabilities.
• Grow as a developer by exchanging knowledge and ideas with team members and other developers.
• Improve the performance of the team by regularly reviewing our activities and identifying new ways of working together.
• Work in cross-functional development environments to ensure our platform capabilities are used and supported in our products and services.
• Performs technical design reviews and code reviews.
• Ensures unit test is completed and meets the test plan requirements, system testing is completed and system is implemented according to plan.
• Coordinates on-call support and ensures effective monitoring of system.
• Maintains technical development environment.
• Mentors others and may lead multiple or small to medium sized projects. 
• Facilitates group sessions to elicit complex information on requirements clarification, design sessions, code reviews and troubleshooting issues. 
• Supports vendor evaluation. 

• Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 5 years related experience;
• Multi dimensional platform experience; expert level experience with business and technical applications, or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
• 5 years of experience with JAVA; expertise with Springboot / Springcloud
• 3 years' experience developing web services and deep understanding of SOA principles, HTTP, and REST.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1 year experience with and core understanding of development practices in containerized environments, such as OpenShift, Docker
• Basic understanding of amazon AWS cloud is a plus.
• 1 year experience with messaging platforms such as RabbitMQ, Tibco or equivalent.
• Strong understanding and experience of release engineering and continuous delivery process.
• Strong understanding of unit testing, test driven development, automated test frameworks. Experience using Jenkins and writing declarative pipelines is a plus
• Core understanding of SOLID principles.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor others, lead small projects and improve team performance
• Demonstrated ability to provide troubleshooting support.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience and knowledge of Health Care Industry desired.
• Experience with MongoDB is highly desirable.
• Experience with contact center operations is helpful.
• Experience with numerous design patterns.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. SPLICE and its clients are Equal Opportunity Employers and will not discriminate based on any factors. We don't discriminate or work with clients who do.