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As a Senior Software Engineer embedded in an energetic agile team of Software and QA Engineers, you will be part of the team in creating software products utilizing React and Java technologies. You will be hands on, involved in designing applications and flexible services that expose core capabilities to different applications and user bases, to achieve the vision through technical decision-making, and facilitating company-wide collaboration. All of this will be accomplished with cutting edge, lean-agile, software development methodologies. Our culture fosters collaboration, innovation, integrity, mentorship, commitment to success and fun. Our managers are dedicated to growing their people and offering an opportunity that allows you to make impact in your career.

Key Responsibilities:

Essential job functions included but are not limited to the following:

• Responsible for developing new features, enhancing existing features. Responsible for production.
• Engage with product team to understand business requirements, processes, and pain points.
• Convert business requirements into technical implementation.
• Take ownership of the full development lifecycle, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards.
• Conduct code reviews to ensure adherence to best practices and optimize performance, scalability, and security.
• Work with cross-functional teams, including UX/UI designers, QA engineers, and product owners, to ensure seamless integration of front-end and back-end services.
• Maintain clear technical documentation for the solutions built to ensure ease of knowledge transfer and maintenance.
• Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - OS, DB, applications, JavaScript, and network.
• Guide junior developers on React and JAVA best practices. Share what they know by mentoring other team members.

Skills & Requirements

Required Technical Skills:

• Frontend Development

o Build dynamic, responsive, and user-friendly interfaces using React.

o Collaborate with UI/UX designers to translate wireframes into functional applications.

o Optimize front-end performance and ensure cross-browser compatibility.

• Backend Development

o Design, develop, and maintain enterprise applications using Java, Struts, Spring Boot, Hibernate, JSP, and Servlets.

o Implement business logic and database interactions with Oracle 19c.

o Develop RESTful APIs and microservices for distributed systems.

• Database Management

o Write efficient SQL queries, stored procedures, and triggers in Oracle 19c.

o Perform database tuning

• Messaging & Integration

o Implement asynchronous communication and message-driven architectures using RabbitMQ.

o Integrate distributed systems and ensure reliable message delivery.

• System Architecture & Design

o Collaborate with architects to design scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.

o Apply design patterns and best practices in enterprise application development.

• Collaboration

o Work closely with cross-functional teams including QA, DevOps, and Product Owners.

o Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior developers.

• Testing & Deployment

o Write unit and integration tests to ensure code quality.

o Participate in CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments.

Nice to have skills:

• Performance Optimization

o Proven ability to optimize React applications using lazy loading, code splitting, and efficient state management techniques to improve application performance.

• Version Control & CI/CD:

o Proficiency with Git and experience in managing feature branches and release cycles using GitLab.

o Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deploying React applications using tools like GitLab.

• Collaboration:

o Collaboration Tools:

• Proficiency in using tools like Rally and Teams to manage Agile workflows and communicate effectively across global teams.

o Agile Methodologies:

• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, actively participating in sprint planning, retrospectives, and iterative development cycles.
• Platform/Tools:

o Experience with AWS cloud platforms (EC2, S3 etc), Terraform.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Have an intense passion for building software.
• Are very strong in both design and implementation at an enterprise level
• 4 to 6 years of professional experience ReactJS (version 18), Java, Struts, Hibernate, Oracle 19c, TypeScript, JavaScript, jQuery, SOAP/REST Services, JSP Servlets, Spring, Tomcat, Asynchronous programming, CSS.
• Strong verbal and written communication ability.
• Proven experience in requirement analysis and documentation.
• Ability to translate complex business needs into technical implementations.
• Problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.
• Can work with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Are in-tune with high performance and high availability design/programming.
• Have experience in security best practices for software and data platforms.
• Design 'perfect-fit' solutions with engineering teams and business units to drive business growth and customer satisfaction.
• Are interested and capable of learning other programming languages as needed.

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