Job Title: Software Engineer Level – 2
Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ Months (Temp to Hire)
Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; with guidance, actively code against the roadmap
• Develop high quality, well documented and efficient code adhering to all applicable standards??
• Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining feature stories, tech leads in defining technical design and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact?
• Write unit, integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems??
• Bring an understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide feedback to the team, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day??
• Work on problems of diverse scope in which analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot, Node.js frameworks?

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• Leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization??
• Conceptual understanding of agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills

Knowledge/understanding of the following:

• Programming Languages:?Python, Java or Java Script; working in distributed systems, object oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology; JAVA services using Spring CLI, Maven, Microservice, multi-threading, Concurrency and parallel processing
• Frameworks:?React, Springboot, Node.js, Flask, Django
• Data Store:?NoSQL or Relational Data structures;
• Data Streaming:?SQS, Kinesis
• Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL
• API Management & Integration : Kong, Apigee
• Unit, interface and end user testing?concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)
• Automated testing
• Accessibility awareness
• Software security skills?including?secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0)
• Dev Ops Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub, Bitbucket or Subversion; DevOps, Jenkins
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Monitoring and logging techniques
• AWS Core Services across compute, storage, DB, IAM and analytics

Preferred qualifications:

• AWS Development
• Architecture Patterns
• Design Thinking
• Financial/Insurance industry knowledge is a plus, not a must
• Experience with agentic frameworks and AI driven development tools is a major plus [Claude Code, GitHub Copilot etc]

 
 
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: $ 55.00/hr.