Sr. Java Developer at Shared Labs

Requirements and General Skills:

• Works well with others and is a skilled communicator both written and oral; acts with professionalism both in person and when working on the phone with partners.
• Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and work under shifting deadlines with potentially ambiguous or nebulous requirements in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Experience working in an agile software development organization; Scrum and/or Kanban
• Willingness to learn new technologies - often very quickly
• Ability to act a mentor and/or leader
• Must have legal right to work in the U.S.

Technical Skills:

• Strong technical knowledge building mission critical/highly available service using current generation toolkits such as Spring, Dropwizard, RESTEasy, or Node.JS

o   Developing and designing web services through APIs using REST, HTTP, JSON/JSONP, etc

o   Fluency in Java 7, basic understanding of Java 8

o   Strong technical knowledge of IP, HTTP, JSON and XML. Solid experience with Python or Javascript/Node.js a plus

o   Strong understanding the principles of service-oriented software and large scale distributed systems.

o   Working knowledge of reactive programing

o   Working knowledge of SQL-based or NoSQL databases using JDBC, JPA or similar frameworks

• Strong technical knowledge of cloud-based systems – covering infrastructure, platform and software as services
• Code craftsmanship; rigor in high code quality, automated testing (JUnit, Mockito, Cucumber), and agile engineering best practices

o   Knowledge of modern software patterns and anti-patterns

• Able to work within a Git/Gitflow-based multi-branched software environment.
• Preferred experience with Java development tooling: Maven and/or Gradle.

o   Used continuous integration environments like TeamCity, Jenkins, Hudson.