Senior Java Developer (Contract)

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While working within a team in an Agile environment, you will be:

• Designing high quality applications that are highly scalable and extensible
• Estimating, tasking and prototyping
• Contributing clear and maintainable code to a shared codebase
• Collaborating with cross-functional team members on features, design and implementation
• Investigating, learning and applying new technologies and ​processes
• Clarifying requirements with team and client representatives

’Must Have’ Skills/Experience:

• Proven experience designing and developing complex applications that are highly scalable and extensible
• Fluent in Java
• Significant cloud platform experience, preferably with AWS or Azure
• Strong fundamental knowledge of computer science algorithms, data structures and design patterns
• Experience designing distributed systems at scale handling large data sets leveraging Apache Spark, Kafka, Kinesis, and Hadoop toolsets
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform
• Attention to well-crafted software

’Nice to Have’ Skills/Experience:

• Exposure to and interest in Agile approaches to software development e.g. automated testing, continuous integration, project rooms, pair programming, etc.
• Fluent and current in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript frameworks
• Relational and/or NoSQL databases, SQL queries and object relational mapping tools
• Distributed computing and platform as a service
• UNIX, Linux and W3C technologies including HTTP and XML
• Automated build, test and deployment tools