Senior Software Developer - remote

Job Description

• Implement, debug, configure, build, deploy and test applications.
• Implement: implement new requirements, handle change requests and fix bugs for different releases. Should deliver a high quality and functioning code.
• Debug: ability to track and debug the code to easily figure out issues' root causes.
• Configure: put configuration layering, change application configuration on different environments, maintain and manage different configuration files.
• Build: knowledge of how to write build scripts (e.g. using ant or maven) and how to configure nightly building tools (e.g. Jenkins)
• Deploy: deployment automation, how to easily deploy applications on different environments and operating systems.
• Test: writing unit tests, knowledge of unit tests frameworks (Junit, TestNG) and working with test driven methodology
• Technical design, decision making, analysis and research.
• Design: participate, propose and find the most suitable solutions using design, enterprise or architectural patterns. Software engineer should have knowledge of different development methodologies and practices (e.g. TDD, extreme programming, pair programming, n-tier architecture).
• Decision making: help the team lead and managers in technical decision making (e.g. most preferred UI technologies that best match a specific problem statement)
• Analysis and research: stay updated with new technologies and solutions for different problems, quick research is required.
• Ability to quickly analyze and provide solutions to business and technical problems.
• Task breaking down, setting tasks priorities, using JIRA, task estimation and follow releases policies and rules
• Setting priorities: discuss and understand priorities with leader.
• JIRA: regular access and updates on JIRA, guiding other team members about how to use JIRA.
• Task break down: distinguish and understand the difference between epics, stories, tasks. Breaking tasks to smaller tasks as possible as could be.
• Estimation: provide roughly and almost accurate estimates for the assigned tasks, stick to due dates and meeting the deadlines, estimating according to the smallest tasks in a given sprint.
• Other teams support and collaboration, training,
• Collaborate not only within the team but with other teams.
• Support and help could be required including shifting between teams in different releases.
• Training and guidance: knowledge transfer, training sessions and guiding other colleagues.

Job Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Java software development.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent education in the form of work experience at similar technology positions
• Technical skills required:
• Strong knowledge in AngularJS V2 or plus and NodeJS
• OOP concepts and design patterns
• Continuous Integration
• JSE/J2SE
• Application Servers (Apache Tomcat, and one of the enterprise application servers e.g. weblogic, JBoss, websphere, Glassfish, OC4J)
• JavaScript (Basics, AJAX)
• Database (Native SQL, DB design and ERD, Oracle, MySQL)
• ORM (JPA, Hibernate)
• Web Services (REST and SOAP webservices basics)
• Clean Code (Code quality standards)
• Unit Test and frameworks (Junit)
• XML (XSD, DTD, XML)
• Build Tools (Maven)
• Source/Revision Control (GIT or SVN)
• Preferred to have:
• GWT
• Big Data (Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop, any NoSQL database like Hbase or MongoDB)
• Search Frameworks (Apache Solr, ElasticSearch)
• General (Security, Aspect Oriented)
• Issue Tracking (JIRA)