Job Title:  Java Lead Engineer

Location : San Leandro, CA (Onsite Role from Day 1-5 Days Onsite-Local Only)

Duration : 12+ Months Contract to Hire

In Person

Job Description:

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of Engineers and Support resources across the world in coordination with multiple partners on large initiatives.
• Develop and execute unit test scripts.
• Estimate User Stories in a backlog.
• Develop core framework and reusable components.
• Track/Update progress of code development using process management tools like Atlassian JIRA.
• Research and track new web technologies, develops service applications, and analyzes business requirements as they pertain to web-based systems
• Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to design system and to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces
• Develop, test and deploy APIs
• Write tested, idiomatic, and documented Java Code
• Communicate with external web services partners and stakeholders.
• Fix any issues or bugs that arise
• Work with stakeholder to gather the requirements
• Expertise in designing, developing and implementing large scale/complex software applications using Java/J2EE technologies.
• Prior experience with leading large scale Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) & API implementations – Monolith to Microservice migration.
• Expert Knowledge and understanding of design patterns & Domain driven design principles.
• Expertise in implementing test driven (TDD) and behavior driven development (BDD)
• Expertise in secure coding practices and best Java coding practices
• Experience in API logging, API testing, creating REST API documentation using Swagger and YAML or similar tools desirable
• Must have exposure to End-to-end Test Frameworks: Fitnesse/Test API, Protractor; Functional Testing: Cucumber.
• Experience in SQL and Stored Procedures such as RDS Oracle DB
• Understanding of requirements, dependencies, and timelines.
• Experience with Scrum and other Agile processes.
• Knowledge of Jira, Git/SVN, Jenkins, DevOps, CI/CD
• Extensive experience in Java 8, Spring boot, micro services architecture,
• Micro services patterns like gateway, discovery, config and sidecar services.
• Any Internal and/or external cloud implementations [Either Azure or Google cloud]
• Spring integration with Apache Kafka, AMQP, RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ
• Hands-on experience with unit testing frameworks like Junit.
• Good Knowledge in Kafka, IBM MQ, JMS
• Preferred Knowledge of Apigee, security aspects like TLS, MTLS, oAuth2, session management.
• Deployment tools using Docker, Kubernetes and overall DevOps
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases like MongoDB
• CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Fortify, Sonar, blackduck.
• Demonstrated logical thinking, analytical ability and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Desired/Good to have:

• Experience with in-memory databases such as Redis, MongoDB, or Cassandra
• 3+ years of banking industry experience