IT Software Engineer 4

Chicago, IL

Job Description :

Position's Contributions to Work Group:

• Team member contributing to programming, project management, and development assignments. Working on backend services in

Typical task breakdown:

• Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drives application development focused around delivering business value
• Mentors and assists software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed
• Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
• Proactively reaches out for help when stuck on an issue after doing reasonable independent research
• Maintains a sense of urgency when working on tasks and actively follow up on any dependencies or blockers

Education & Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field is required

Technical Skills

(Required)

• Five years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java.
• Proven experience in many of the following
  • Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.
  • Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.
  • Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.
  • Deploying software using CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GoCD, etc
  • Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
  • Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum)
• Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following
  • Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ.
  • Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs
  • Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible
  • Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development.
  • Hands on experience with testing tools such as Cucumber and Selenium and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle.
  • Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc
  • Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms

Soft Skills

(Required)

• Must demonstrate solid knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals, such as data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
• Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
• Demonstrated leadership on small to medium-scale projects impacting strategic priorities

Required Skills : Word
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Other Project Type
Master Job Title :Misc: Non-Technical
Branch Code :Bloomington