Java Developer

Job Purpose :

Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable enterprise applications and RESTful APIs using Java and Spring Boot. The role will collaborate with business and technical teams to understand requirements, develop high-quality software, troubleshoot production issues, and contribute to continuous improvement of application performance, security, and reliability

Role & responsibilities :

• Design of the overall architecture of the web application
• Implementation of a robust set of services and APIs to power the web application
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimization of the application for maximum speed and scalability
• Understanding of REST API security, authentication/authorization, JWT, OAuth2, and Spring Security.
• Integration of the front-end and back-end aspects of the web application
• Maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications
• Collaborate with the rest of the development team to design and launch new features
• Review team members code, suggest and knowledge sharing with team
• Maintain code integrity and organization
• Work cooperatively with others
• Comply with all company policies and procedures
• Other duties as assigned

Required Experience:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent
• 3+ years relevant software development experience creating business applications in a high-volume operational environment
• 3+ years of hands-on experience developing applications using Java, preferably Java 17 or later.
• Previous hands on experience with developing software with Agile methodologies
• Strong experience with relational databases such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MySQL, including SQL queries, joins, indexes, transactions, and stored procedures.

Preferred Experience:

• Strong time management skills - including ability to work well under pressure, plan, set priorities, adapt to change, and meet established timelines
• Understanding of service-to-service communication, API versioning, fault tolerance, and distributed systems.
• Ability to perform in a DevOps environment providing application code fixes with minimum incidents and high quality
• Effective analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capability
• Critical thinking
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to learn and take directions and provide guidance to a team
• Excellent interpersonal, research, and communication skills
• Proficient knowledge of back-end programming
• Any experience with Azure services and cloud-based application deployment is a plus.

Technical Skills Preferred

• 3+ years of hands-on Java development with Strong knowledge of Java 17+ (Core Java, OOP, Collections, Streams, Lambda expressions, Exception handling, Multithreading/concurrency, Generics and Java 8+ features)
• Strong experience with Spring Boot
• Spring MVC / Spring Framework
• RESTful API development
• JPA / Hibernate
• SQL and relational databases
• JUnit 5 / Mockito
• Git, BitBucket
• Experience with Jenkins and CI/CD pipelines.
• Agile/Scrum development
• Debugging and production issue resolution
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ is preferred.