Role: Senior Software Engineer Duration: 6+ months (Temp to Perm Hire) Location: Newark, NJ – Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)
About the Opportunity: Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization, you'll unlock an exciting and impactful career — all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions.
Your Team & Role: As a Senior Software Engineer on the Group Insurance team, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve and enhance our Onboarding Platform. You will code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to applied experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.
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; actively code against the roadmap
Develop high quality, well documented and efficient code adhering to all applicable client’s 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; research problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems.
Bring an applied understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, identify opportunities to provide input to the team and coach others, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day.
Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various 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
Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Knowledge of business concepts, tools and processes needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business
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
Applied experience with several of the following:
Programming Languages: Python, Java or JavaScript; distributed systems, object oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology; Java services using Spring CLI, Maven, Microservices, multi-threading, concurrency and parallel processing
Frameworks: React, Spring Boot, Node.js (Full / MEAN / MERN stack)
Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures; MongoDB; BPM tools
Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis
APIs: Consumption & Development; implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL
Testing: Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional); automated testing
Accessibility: Accessibility awareness and compliance
Security: Secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signatures, JWT, SSL, web service proxies, firewalls, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth2.0
DevOps Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub, Bitbucket or Subversion; DevOps, Jenkins
SDLC: Monitoring and logging techniques
AWS Core Services: CloudWatch, CodeDeploy
Preferred Qualifications:
AWS Development
Architecture Patterns
Design Thinking
Financial / Insurance industry knowledge is a plus, not a must
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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: $ 65.00/hr.
