Java REST API Developer

Java REST API Developer

Samprasoft

Durham, NC • On-site

$46.25 - $59.75/hr

Other

Posted 3 days ago


Job description

Remote Until COVID

Solid on REST API/microservices development

Must Haves:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
  • 5+ years of development experience (currently hands on) in Java, Spring MVC / Spring Core / Web Services (SOAP/REST) and configuring web containers.
Additional Experience:
  • 2+ years of web development experience (one or more of these: JSP, Jquery, Backbone, Angular, NodeJS, Jasmine, Protractor) would be a plus!
  • Ability to make important contributions to our technology platform
Job Responsibilities:
  • Assist in coordinating multiple development work streams through integration and ensure architecture is scalable and extensible.
  • Define, maintain, and support Java development environment and standard methodologies, such as Maven, Sonar, and other Open Source tools.
  • Assist in identification, isolation, resolution, and communication of problems within the production and nonproduction environment and perform troubleshooting.
  • Perform code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing using Open Source frameworks.
  • Contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives.
  • Driving new API products available in the marketplace.
  • Consumer adoption of new API products
  • Decommissioning legacy assets in line with enterprise goals and objectives
  • Responsible for WI infrastructure needs as it relates to the API Platform offering from ECC
Job Description:

CLIENT Workplace Investing – API Market Technology COE is looking to build and support outstanding products for its highly business critical Employee Digital Tribe. Our engineering team is innovative, diverse, passionate and self-driven. We work in a very dynamic agile environment.

Lead Workplace Investing in crafting a modern, digital API ecosystem delivering better customer experiences faster, enabling expansion to new markets and providing access to legacy and third-party systems.

As an engineer on the team, your primary role will be building, testing and engineering REST API’s on our API Market Platform. You are encouraged to quickly gain an understanding of all the components of our platform to be able to lead and chip into strategic roadmaps and initiatives related to the improvement, maintenance, and support of the platform.

The Expertise You Have:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering
  • 5+ years of development experience (currently hands on) in Java, Spring MVC / Spring Core / Web Services (SOAP/REST) and configuring web containers.
  • 2+ years of web development experience (one or more of these: JSP, Jquery, Backbone, Angular, NodeJS, Jasmine, Protractor) would be a plus!
  • Ability to make important contributions to our technology platform
  • Design patterns, UML, 12-factor design principles
  • Test Driven Development, Junit, Jasmine, Karma, Protractor
  • IDE’s Spring Tool Suite, and Eclipse, within a UNIX and Windows environment.
  • Application build, deploy using Continuous Integration/ Deployment (CI/CD) tools -- Jenkins, Maven, uDeploy, etc.
  • Writing SQL queries and debugging stored procedures within an Oracle environment.
  • Leadership: Standout colleague, self-starter, collaborative, innovative, eager to learn every day.
  • Scrum Developer certification is a plus
  • Understanding of docker, cloud-computing / cloud services platforms (e.g. AWS or azure) will be a plus
  • Able to clearly articulate API strategies to all partners
  • API Management Platform such as APIGEE knowledge and experience preferred
The Skills You Bring:
  • Assist in coordinating multiple development work streams through integration and ensure architecture is scalable and extensible.
  • Define, maintain, and support Java development environment and standard methodologies, such as Maven, Sonar, and other Open Source tools.
  • Assist in identification, isolation, resolution, and communication of problems within the production and nonproduction environment and perform troubleshooting.
  • Perform code reviews, unit testing, and integration testing using Open Source frameworks.
  • Contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives.
  • Driving new API products available in the marketplace.
  • Consumer adoption of new API products
  • Decommissioning legacy assets in line with enterprise goals and objectives
  • Responsible for WI infrastructure needs as it relates to the API Platform offering from ECC
The Value You Deliver:
  • Understand the leadership vision and execute on that vision.
  • Help strengthen further the culture of innovation by setting examples
  • Find creative ways to get things done and do them right
  • Develop a culture of outstanding software engineering practices
  • Exercise a passion for keeping your knowledge up-to-date with the latest and greatest
  • Establishing an API marketplace for CLIENT and trusted external partners
  • Providing unified experience to access technical assets and resources
  • Implement consistent standards for API development, deployment
  • Coordinate publishing and consumption in the API Marketplace



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