Are you an experienced Back End Developer with a desire to excel? If so, then Talent Software Services may have the job for you! Our client is seeking an experienced Back End Developer to work at their company in Richfield, MN.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

We are looking for highly skilled backend engineers to help us build out our applications on the Marketplace Platform team. These engineers will extend and support running applications & assist in the design and development of new applications. They will be expected to evaluate and refactor in a rapid manner for every part of our infrastructure. Overall knowledge of designing an application to run on a scalable platform is expected. They will be working in an agile environment which values test-driven development and pair programming in a pragmatic way. Primary responsibilities include:

• Developing JVM/Spring web applications (Java, Groovy, etc.)
• Iterative, frequent refactoring
• Object Oriented Programming and Service Oriented Architecture design
• Collaborating with other team members to reduce knowledge silos, mitigate risk and drive team practices towards continuous improvement

Self-direction by default (actively seeking work that advances team goals and priorities rather than waiting for work to be assigned)

Qualifications:

• 5+ years software development
• 4+ years Agile/XP development
• 4+ years Java and/or other JVM languages, etc.
• 4+ years Unit testing (with use of mocking via Spock/Mockito/EasyMock or equivalent)
• 3+ years Gradle and/or Maven or equivalent build/dependency management tooling
• 2+ years with relational and/or NoSQL databases
• 2+ years with messaging technologies such as IBM MQ, Rabbit MQ, Kafka, etc.

Preferred:

• 10+ years software development
• 8+ years Agile/XP development
• 8+ years Java and/or other JVM languages, etc.
• 8+ years Unit testing (with use of mocking via Spock/Mockito/EasyMock or equivalent
• 6+ years Gradle and/or Maven or equivalent build/dependency management tooling
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
• Developing Spring/Java/Gradle applications (or Spring/Groovy/Maven, etc.)
• Strong unit-testing skills and integration testing skills
• Object-oriented programming and experience with Design Patterns
• Experience with event-driven and/or message-driven architectures
• Experience with Spock framework
• An inclination towards Pair Programming for complex features and as a teaching/learning tool
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration environment
• Service Oriented Architecture design
• Experience in retail, specifically eCommerce is useful