About you

* Ability to balance aggressive delivery schedules with maintainable quality code

* Require minimal supervision and can help a team drive a project to completion 


* Own changes to be made from definition to support in production

* Experience with various software lifecycle tools such as Git and JIRA

* Have experience with TDD or TAD (Test Accompanied Development), developer-written automated testing and all things that lead to confidence in our code in a Continuous Delivery infrastructure.

* 3 to 8 years experience and skill in technologies including

o Web services written in Java

o Understanding of microservice architectures and messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ), REST and other concepts in API architecture

o Service-oriented architectures and messaging systems (e.g. RabbitMQ)

o Databases (relational and document)Functional, unit, and integration testing

o Ability (and willingness) to work full stack but have strength in Java-based APIs and services

o Some HTML, CSS, Javascript, React JS framework preferred, ECMAScript 6+, and modern tooling such as Grunt, Gulp, NPM, Yarn, SASS, LESS, PostCSS, etc.

o Databases (relational and document)

o Instrumentation of an app or service for alerting and monitoring (New Relic)

o Functional, unit, integration and performance testing

* Shipped robust, high-performance, high-scalability applications to production

* Experience with a 24/7 production environment

* BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

* Clear verbal and written communication; demonstrated ability to collaborate cross-functionally and with peers from a variety of disciplines

 

 

The ideal candidate

* Has breadth and depth of skill to build scalable applications

* Is dedicated to delivering outstanding customer experience

* Ensures they are a critical part of the success of the team

* Is passionionate about learning new tools, frameworks, languages

* Enjoys both teaching and learning from others

* Approaches differences in opinion through inquisition and concensus building

* Is more concerned with doing the right thing than being right.

* Acts courageously and does the right thing, even when it's hard to do