Senior Java Developer

Job Title: Senior Java Developer

Location: Alpharetta, GA / Berkley Heights, NJ (Onsite M-F)

Type: Full Time

Role & Responsibilities:

The Sr. developer (Java & AWS & Kubernetes) is responsible for developing and enhancing our payment platform and value added tools. This is a complex payments system and has many features that our customers leverage every day to run their businesses. We are looking for candidates that aren’t afraid to dig into the system and become productive quickly. We value constructive feedback and want employees to feel comfortable proposing well thought out improvements and suggestions.

Work with a wide range of systems, processes and technologies to own and solve problems from end-to-end

Debug production issues across services and multiple levels of the stack

Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and systems

Work with engineers across the company to build new features at scale

The ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts

Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems

Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Uphold best practices in engineering, security, and design

Other duties, as assigned

Requirements:

10+ years’ experience working with Java.

AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect)

Experience refactoring code, optimizing software, debugging, and developing tests with high code coverage

Experience with AWS Cloud services such as EC2, S3, IAM, Route53, RDS, EKS, Load Balancers, CloudWatch

Experience with container clustering environments: Kubernetes, Rancher, ECS

Design and deploy Kubernetes clusters for container orchestration, ensuring high availability and scalability of applications.

Experience with serverless environments and architectures: AWS Lambda and Fargate or similar

Relational database and repository experience: Aurora, MySql, Postgres, GitHub, Nexus

Experience developing backend web services in a microservice architecture along with command over common data structures and design patterns.

Solid understanding of API design, particularly principles of REST in highly scalable environments

Strong SQL skills, specifically with PostgreSQL, including pros/cons of various approaches to access, and ability to recognize and address potential performance issues.

Experience with the following technologies:

Languages: Java

Database: Postgres, mySQL, SQL Server

Spring Boot

Maven/Gradle

Kubernetes

Cucumber

Docker

Jmeter (or some other load testing framework)