Backend Java Developer

Kforce - Westlake, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Westlake, TX

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Backend Java Developer will play a crucial role in providing technical support to a product squad responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining applications in AWS. This position involves driving multiple development work streams while ensuring that the design and architecture are scalable, resilient, and extensible. The developer will also contribute to improving developer efficiency and will be responsible for aligning technology decisions with Fidelity's architecture standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical help to the squad in the product area responsible for building, deploying, and maintaining applications in AWS.
• Drive execution of multiple development work streams while ensuring design and architecture is scalable, resilient, and extensible.
• Develop solutions that help improve developer efficiency and share knowledge about new techniques and technologies.
• Ensure technology decisions and implementation align with Fidelity's architecture standards and strategies.
• Evaluate and recommend technology and frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability, and time to market.
• Analyze and recommend changes in project development policies, procedures, standards, and strategies to development experts and management.
• Provide ongoing assessment for improvement to application design.
• Determine boundary and relationship between technical architecture and application layer.
• Create new design concepts and processes that improve the quality of technical design development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 10+ years of experience developing REST based web services using frameworks like Spring Boot.
• Experience working with backend SQL database like Oracle.
• Good experience with Test Automation and Frameworks like Cucumber, Karate.
• Good experience building and deploying software using Continuous Integration/ Deployment (CI/CD) tools like Terracore, Jenkins.
• Proven experience in building and deploying software solutions utilizing public cloud provider services like AWS.
• Experience developing Spring Java batch solutions is a plus.
• Experience with Apigee is a plus.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 401(k) plan
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Paid time off for salaried personnel
• Paid sick leave for hourly employees on Service Contract Act projects