Title: Java Developer Duration: 1 year plus – potential for conversion Location: Phoenix, AZ 85027/Remote
Job Purpose: Develops cost effective solutions and drives analysis, design, and implementation as part of a team. Acts as a mentor to less experienced team members, increasing efficiency and reliability of the product and its related systems through delivering product according to complex acceptance criteria. Essential Job Results Develops cost effective solutions and drives analysis, design, and implementation as part of a team. Acts as a mentor to less experienced team members, increasing efficiency and reliability of the product and its related systems through delivering product according to complex acceptance criteria. Delivers reliable high performance applications, technical designs, and handles multiple priorities according to a given sprint timeline to completion.
Duties may be included as follows:
Participate and drive code reviews with the team
Train and educate team members in framework and architecture design of our product
Drive full stack design conversations for features on new and existing products
Regular discussion with the team to drive code changes and implementation to resolve technical debt and includes task creation, distribution, and sprint planning discussions.
Design of new/existing features for business products while keeping application and code integrity for iteration releases.
Suggest and research into refactor of codebase on existing products.
Build and support internal tools to enable departmental needs.
Lead questions and considerations for iteration tasks to support Agile and its planning in relation to our products and projects
Meets business needs by questioning and translating requirements into solutions. Researches and produces design documents while producing said requirements into functionally accurate products according to business requirements and specs.
Contributes to the team by participating in team planning and meetings to drive understanding of products and solutions. Develops, maintains and communicates troubleshooting and recovery solutions and provides support as needed. May coordinate project team activities and assist in monitoring project schedules and costs. May provide work direction to or mentor less experienced team members.
Interfaces with stakeholders to resolve issues.
Maintains technical currency by reviewing trade publications, researching technical documentation and pursuing training relevant to Company operating environments. Maintains working understanding of business functions.
Protects the Company by handling business sensitive information with appropriate confidentiality.
Experience : Minimum 6 years related experience in functional area Education : Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Requires fully competent knowledge of hardware engineering and software design theories.
Skills Requires experience in a combination of the following skills.
MYSQL databases/tools
System performance monitoring, analysis and management, garbage collector management
SOAP, REST (Json), XML, Web services, Microservices
Experience with using command line and SSH on Unix Servers
PCI compliance, credit card processing including designing for gateway interaction
Tomcat Application Server
Experience with AWS - VPC, EC2, SNS, SQS, S3, API Gateway, Lambda (Serverless)
Experience with Continuous Integration – Jenkins, Nexus, Git, Sonarqube, Selenium
Source control – Git, Bitbucket, Gitflow Branching Model
IDE – Eclipse
Build Tools – Maven 2, 3
IAM – LDAP, Okta
Experience with Agile, Scrum as part of a team
Change Release Management – Cherwell
Full stack application experience Python
Additional skills:
Strong consulting skills
Strong object-oriented design experience
Aptitude for finding creative solutions to complex problems
Ability to conceptualize and rapidly prototype from marketing and business requirements
Capacity for teamwork and experience in projects implemented remotely
Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
Demonstrated ability to manage software development projects through completion as part of a team.
Effective interpersonal skills to communicate effectively within the team and stakeholders.
Advanced technical mastery in area of specialty or broad multi-disciplinary knowledge.
Additionally, knowledge or experience in hospitality is a plus
Accountability Expectation to provide work direction as a team and mentoring for entry-level staff and team members. Works as part of a team to design, develop, and produce work as part of an Agile sprint.
Leadership Exhibits personal characteristics and professional standards that serve as a role model for others. Provides guidance and serves as a technical resource to less experienced staff.
Simplifies complex processes and organizes tasks and activities to get things done within an expected schedule/timeframe of the projects
Knowledge Full functional and technical know-how to meet professional standards and succeed in the job. Keeps functional and technical skills current.
Relationship Management Conveys and obtains information both internal and external to the department. Shares new concepts and approaches with others. Uses written verbal or electronic skills to communicate effectively with a variety of levels in the organization, including those less familiar with computing terminology.
Problem Solving Uses strong logical and methodical problem solving skills to develop technically simple solutions for complex problems. Uses a wide degree of creativity and latitude to analyze and resolve problems.
About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation. At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $60.00/hr.
