The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a Sr. Software Engineer - Java in Cary, NC/Hybrid.

Role Description

Responsibilities include the ability to work independently and as part of the leadership group of a larger team to deliver quality solutions across all phases and layers of the software lifecycle.

Quality:
• Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests
• Minimize the number of production escapes
• Support user acceptance testing
• Support or conduct system testing, performance, volume, and stress testing.

Usability/User Experience:
• Collaborate with business and UX team to create appropriate application User interfaces.
• Assist with mock-ups, user interface design.
• Incorporate UX components into the application.
• Provide feedback to the UX team.

Product Reliability& Response:
• Ensure the system can meet or exceed defined SLAs.
• When primary on-call respond to pages within 15min, and resolve or escalate issue as necessary
• Resolve production issues and communicate resolution to appropriate stakeholders

Development:
• Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met
• Conduct necessary analysis, design, and prepare technical documentation
• Estimates tory sizes and task out development for a given story
• Follow the development process and suggest improvements
• Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications

Leadership(Technical):
• Evangelize common practices and development procedures
• Exhibit technical leadership in given technical subject domain
• Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve our quality, productivity, and capabilities
• Mentor peers and junior developers
• Delegate ,and coordinate functional development tasks as needed
• Drive innovation in the development, release, and operations processes

Skills & Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience or
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 3 years of technical experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a development environment
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification will be a plus
• Works under deadlines and subject to heavy project load
• Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff
• Ability to operate independently of supervision with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience in defining requirements, designing, and illustrating process flows, and raining users.
• Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization – including documentation of application requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively.
• Ability to mentor others
• 7 years of Java/J2EE Web Development Experience.
• Comfortable with front-end, middle-tier, and backend technologies.
• Expertise in front-end technologies like Angular, Spring MVC, or equivalent, hands-on experience in these technologies a must in the last 3 years.
• Expertise in Spring, Spring Boot, and hibernate or equivalent ORM, hands-on experience in these technologies a must in the last 2 years.
• Experience is working with Docker and Kubernetes environment, hands-on experience inbuilding Docker applications.
• WebService SOAP/REST expertise, especially as a service provider.
• MDB/MDP/Broker/Service Bus MQ technologies development experience in last 2-3 years is a plus. If the candidate is just familiar withMQ or has minimal experience, needs to be really strong in specific front-end, backend technologies of Struts/Spring/hibernate.
• Expertise using Tomcat servers.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology.
• Expertise in using version control software like git, etc.
• Strong understanding of deployment processes, deployment environments, production application troubleshooting techniques, etc. too.
• Experience to work with AWS cloud native services like S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ELB, SNS,SQS and Route53.
• Experience to deploy application components in AWS EKS cluster and to debug any issues.
• Experience in using Aurora RDS for database.
• Experience in using Amazon MQ for message broker service will be a plus
• Sedentary work: Assignment involves sitting at workstation (desk) most of the time (up to 8 hours) with only occasional walking and/or standing
• Keyboarding: Primarily using fingers for typing
• Talking: Expressing or communicating verbally through use of spoken words (accurately conveying detailed or important spoken instructions to others)
• Hearing: Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make discriminations in sound.
• Visual: Through close visual acuity, required to perform activities such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing computer terminal; extensive reading (with or without correction).
• Environment: Work is performed within an office setting and therefore there is no substantial exposure to adverse environmental conditions(i.e., extreme heat, cold, noise, etc.).

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays’ guiding principles is ‘do the right thing’.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text 813.336.5570.

Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.

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