Backend Java Developer
Summary
Xyleme is looking for a developer with experience developing n-tier backend applications in Java. As a backend developer, you will be building and maintaining multiple services that integrate with our product platform. This is an intermediate position, reporting directly to the team manager. To be successful in this role, you will need to have a strong academic record with experience in software development, with exposure to design, estimating, development, and testing. We understand you may not be an expert at everything, so you should be interested and willing to quickly learn new skills and be dedicated to continuous improvement of processes, applications and services, and be comfortable / willing to attend meetings and visit our office to participate in planning discussions.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for:
- Designing and developing high-volume, low-latency features and improvements for a content management system
- Ensuring all designs and coding comply to documented user stories, security best practices, and performance guidelines
- Building, maintaining, and executing tests and test frameworks for the application
- Resolving application and service problems, as well as fixing bugs during the development life cycle, or as part of maintenance
- Participating and sharing status in daily stand-ups and team planning sessions as part of our Kanban development methodology
Minimum Requirements
You must possess the following qualifications to be considered for this position.
- At least three years of software development using Java
- Understanding of language-specific concepts such as inheritance, scoping, type-coercing, etc.
- Database Knowledge - Relational (MySQL) and/or NoSQL (MongoDB)
- Experience with test automation and willingness to cover your code with automated tests
Preferred Competencies
Competency in the following areas will help you excel in this position.
- RESTful services
- OpenAPI standard
- Java Spring framework
- Test frameworks - Mocha, Chai, Pact
- JSON data interchange format / XML
- Amazon Web Services and technologies (ECS, EC2, Lambda, S3, etc.)
- Git and trunk-based development in a team environment (merge requests, branching, push, and pulls)
Soft Skills
- Proven and demonstrable skills as it relates to verbal and written communication (in English)
- Ability to estimate work and track time on tasks
- Ability and desire to focus on deadlines and complete work efficiently
- Professional and friendly support skills to assist with problems and solutions
- Detailed and quality oriented
- Self-aware with ability to improve based on manager, team, or other feedback
- Energetic, positive, with the ability to bring a "can do" attitude to challenges
Total compensation for this role is market competitive, in the range of $90,000-$140,000 annually, DOE.
In addition to our commitment to equal pay for equal work, Xyleme is also committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, age, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, genetic information, parental or pregnancy status, sexual orientation, marital status, citizenship, national origin, disability, or veteran status.