Lead hands-on development of secure, scalable, API-based software systems on AWS. Responsibilities include architecture and design, Java and microservices development, API and data-service integration, testing, production operationalization, regulatory and information-security compliance, documentation, and system monitoring. The role requires expertise in cloud-native Java, Spring frameworks, asynchronous messaging, SQL and NoSQL data, CI/CD, secure coding, and software engineering best practices.
Responsibilities:
- Hands-On active contribution as a leading member of software engineering teams focused on building API based systems delivering highly secure, efficient and robust solutions in an aggressive timeframe.
- Develop highly scalable and reliable systems supporting consumer and data centric products and services on an AWS cloud-based platform
- Integrate 3rd Party and Internal API, async, and file-based services utilizing CSV, JSON, or XML data
- Contribute to deliverables from ideation thru testing/validation and production operationalization
- Drive design/architecture and collaborate with other team members
- Diligently observe and maintain Standards for Regulatory Compliance and Information Security
- Without fail deliver and maintain accurate, complete and current documentation
Qualifications:
- 8 to 10 years of software development experience building and testing applications with secure coding practices including some experience leading development efforts or contributing to architecture
- Currently hands-on collaboration on a team developing significant commercial software project in cloud native Java
- Proven proficiency developing in server-side Java and/or Netty applications using mainstream frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Reactor-Core.
- Current cloud technology experience, preferably AWS (Kubernetes, Fargate, S3, MKS, Lambda, etc)
- A current working understanding of microservices, event driven techniques, and data pipelines
- A strong proven proficiency in SQL and NoSQL based data access and management
- Familiarity with async messaging, logging or queues, such as Kafka, NATS, SQS, RabbitMQ.
- Recent experience managing PII/secure/sensitive data
- Demonstrable familiarity with CI/CD process, testing frameworks and practices (Code Commit, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline, CLI, etc.)
- Strong understanding of best design and software engineering practices, design principles and patterns and unit testing.
- Proficiency in developing easily monitored at the system and business operations level
- Comfortable in a dynamic environment, with ability and willingness to adapt to various technologies and simultaneously work on multiple projects
Additional information
Additional Preferred Experience
- Extensive experience building systems for financial services or tightly regulated businesses.
- Mass-market retail online consumer product experience
- Security and privacy compliance (GPDR, CCPA, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA, etc.) experience a plus
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