Sr AWS Java Developer

Job Title Sr AWS Java Developer

Location: Chicago IL Hybrid work model ( 2x a week)

Duration: Long Term

Candidate Requirements

Education & Experience Required:

• Bachelors degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field is required
• 10 years experience of designing and developing software applications in Java or at least 5years experience in Java with Masters degree.
• Masters degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Eight years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java or at least five years of experience in Java with Masters degree in Computer Science or related field.

Technical Skills (Required)

• Strong Java 11
• Backend development is a MUST
• RESTful web services
• AWS knowledge IAM Kinesis DynamoDB API stack SQS SNS KMS
• Slick SQL queries
• DevOps
• High Availability and Reliable Solutions
• Some architecture experience

(Required)

Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a teamoriented environment

Typical task breakdown:

• 1. Competent to perform all programming and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
• 2. Acts as team leader for development and support groups; provides programming and application/technical leadership guidance and assistance to other team members.
• 3. Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution including responding to offshift and weekend support calls.
• 4. Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• 5. Drives application development focused around delivering business valuable features 6. Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• 7. Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• 8. Mentors junior developers.
• 9. Communicates with end users and internal customers to help direct development debugging and testing of application software for accuracy integrity interoperability and completeness.
• 10. Leads development of new functionality and applications on crossfunctional teams
• 11. Performs integration testing and customer acceptance testing of components that requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely quality results
• 12. Participates in technology evaluation and recommendations.
• 13. Applies an enterprisewide view to solutions to support the adoption of standards and practices and promote reuse.
• 14. Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by management from time to time. The position manages the completion of its own work assignments and coordinates work with others. Based on past experiences and knowledge the incumbent normally works independently with minimal management input and review of end results. Typical customers include customers dealers other external companies who purchase services offered by as well as internal business unit and/or service center groups. The position is challenged to quickly and correctly identify problems that may not be obvious. The incumbent solves problems by determining the best course of action within departmental guidelines from many existing solutions. The incumbent sets priorities and establishes a work plan in order to complete broadly defined assignments and achieve desired results. The position participates in brainstorming sessions focused on developing new approaches to meeting quality goals in the measure(s) stated.

Disqualifiers/Red Flags:

• No front end engineers they will be DQ
• Full stack engineers would not be a good fit.
• Candidate who do not have significant backend experience will be automatically DQ
• If candidates current location is not on the resume it will be automatically DQ
• If the candidate currently does not reside in the local area but open to relocation and onsite day 1 please make sure that is clear on the resume r they will be DQ.

Interview Process:

Via Teams with Video ON

3 sets of technical interview including 1 coding interview 1 architecture interview and 1 team interview (behavioral); 3 separate interviews.