Java Full Stack Developer

Position

Java Full Stack Developer

Location

Boston, MA

As a software engineer, you will work with IT team designing and developing web services, REST APIs and solutions that build dynamic customer experience. The ideal candidate has strong Software Engineering skills and has worked with cloud deployment models and test-driven development in a fast-paced agile environment.

• Design and develop back-end micro services and REST APIs for connected devices, web applications, and mobile applications.
• Collaborate with front-end and mobile app development teams on user-facing features and services.
• Work with platform architects on software and system optimizations, helping to identify and remove potential performance bottlenecks.
• Focus on innovating new and better ways to create solutions that add value and amaze the end user, with a penchant for simple elegant design in every aspect from data structures to code to UI and systems architecture.
• Stay up to date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, understand trends and opportunities that ensure we are using the best techniques and tools.
• Work with other software leads on developing continuous integration (CI) pipeline and unit test automation.
• Document the work you do, especially APIs that you create.

Qualifications (demonstrated competence)

• Expert knowledge coding languages such as Java, Python, or Node.js.
• Hands-on experience using and developing REST APIs.
• Working knowledge of Relational (MySQL, Aurora), NoSQL database systems (Mongo, Cassandra, HBase, BigTable, Redis), or Big Data storage solutions.
• Experience with cloud-based distributed application scaling & data processing.
• Agile / Scrum methodology.

Highly desirable but not required skills include

• Experience with cloud computing APIs (Amazon Web Services preferred).
• Experience with cloud computing services (Amazon Web Services like EC2, Route53, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and RDS preferred).
• Experience with container based deployment systems such as Docker.
• Knowledge of configuration management systems such as Puppet or Chef.
• Interest in emerging platform-as-a-service / distributed application frameworks such as Cloud Foundry, Spring, Elastic Beanstalk and Docker.