Full Stack Developer Long Term Contract Atlanta, GA

Client requires a Full Stack Developer that involves developing new functionality, implementing web services, building microservices, and performing API integration for a highly visible large enterprise application. The project is multi-year where the developer will be actively coding, troubleshooting across all integration touch points; optimizing performance, resolving problems, and designing highly scalable enterprise application hosted on AWS cloud. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Java Spring, JPA, Hibernate, and experience with OpenShift PaaS deployments. Additionally, proficiency in AWS server technologies, including J2EE, MQ, Oracle Spring, distributed computing is essential. As a Full Stack Developer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our web applications, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Systems, 8+ years of relevant technical experience or masters degree in computer science or information systems with 2+ years of technical experience.
• 8+ years experience in Java J2EE, Python development experience is required.
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer with a strong focus on Java Spring and related technologies
• Hands on experience with JPA and Hibernate for database integration.
• Proficiency in OpenShift PaaS deployments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS server technologies, including S3, Lambda, VPC, Route53. MSK, Kinesis, Aurora, RDS, and DynamoDB.
• Must have familiarity and hands-on working experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Excelling problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Experience working with GitHub and/or GitLab, SonarQube, Junit, Spring Bott.
• Skilled in writing, designing unit test cases using TDD and BDD methodologies.
• Hands on experience of virtualizing services for test automation using tools such as Wire Mock, Mockito, etc.
• Hands on experience of working with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins and Gitlab CI.
• Experience using relational and object databases and web service development standards and practices, including RESTful APIs, micro-services, and services.
• Experience working in an agile development environment using workload management tools like VersionOne/Agility.
• Designing, prototyping, and demonstrating new features and components of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliance with requirements.
• Assisting in the design, implementation and optimization of related approaches, tools, and workflows.
• Maintaining current products/services and collaborating with other staff to ensure both functional and non-functional requirements are met.
• Collaborate with the designers and product managers to ensure that the code that is developed meets their vision.
• Design the solution to meet functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Align to security/compliance framework and controls requirements, leverage Security+ Compliance as code accelerators and leverage controls automation.
• Own quality posture and write automated tests, ideally before writing code.
• Develop delivery pipelines and automated deployment scripts.
• Configure services, such as databases and monitoring.
• Fix problems from the development phase through the production phase, with requires being on call for production support.
• For SDEs to have such broad roles, they rely on cloud technologies to free them from many- and sometimes allinfrastructure tasks. In an ideal DevOps organization, the SDEs take on operations fully and are on pager duty for production problems.
• Squads might need SDEs with specialized skills, such as analytics or mobile. In those cases, use pair programming to spread the skills and cross skill the team.
• Expert troubleshooting and deployment experience with strong understanding of transforming business and functional requirements into efficient technical solutions.
• Experience with system integrations, optimizing performance and data integrity.
• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills. Assures smooth flowing, timely transmission of critical information.
• Excellent judgement and problem-solving skills; an individual should be able to resolve urgent problems in a calm and quick manner and display a high degree of initiative and drive.
• Be flexible and embrace challenges that are outside of your comfort zone.
• Hands on experience of creating test reports from automation test run using tools such as cucumber report, Extent report etc.
• Experience with OpenShift, working knowledge of MQ.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop amazingly efficient and effective software using Java, NodeJS, Python, Spring Boot, Microservices, APIs.
• Enhance and maintain on prem and internal PAAS applications, and actively rework these to AWS along project timelines.
• Help to design and implement serverless patterns from containerized applications.
• Build industry standard APIs and help with establishing, consuming and routing calls, connectivity protocols and policy.
• Design, develop and implement architecture patterns that are optimized for SLAs, reliability, and cost.
• Look upstream and downstream to see around corners and anticipate future consequences for immediate technical choices.
• Help to establish and grow a culture of software craftsmanship best practices, including TDD/BDD and Test Automation (both Unit and Integration), Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment.
• Drive performance improvements including monitoring, detailed metrics, problems, trends, and costs, to determine solutions, required process changes, etc. that will make the function more efficient.
• Ensure adherence to security standards and compliance with privacy rules and regulations early in the development.
• Be aggressive to resolve and prevent technical debt.
• Actively engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives, with an aim to continuously improve.
• Collaborate frequently to share ideas and gain perspective. Communicate critical information in a clear and timely manner, listen to others, and seek clarification to confirm shared understanding.
• Initiate and lead code reviews and continuous improvement efforts.
• Create usable documentation/playbook(s).
• Effectively analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs - communicate these across the team.
• Optimize pace and meet deadlines.
• Administer product upgrades and patches.
• Aid and support other team members where required, including troubleshooting and maintenance of production systems/programs/applications.
• 24/7 On-call support rotation function is a component of this role.

What else? (Nice to have)

Airline industry experience is good to have.

AWS/OpenShift and/or Java Distributed Technology certifications.

AWS Certification.

DevOps and/or automation experience in code testing, building, and deployment.

Experience building computer software with