Senior Java Engineer

Essential Functions:

Quality:

• Meet or exceed test coverage goals set for the project through creation of unit and functional tests.
• Minimize the number of production escapes.
• Support user acceptance testing.
• Support or conduct system testing, performance, volume, and stress testing.

Usability/User Experience:

• Collaborate with business and UX team to create appropriate application User interfaces.
• Assist with mock-ups, user interface design.
• Incorporate UX components into application.
• Provide feedback to UX team.

Product Reliability & Response :

• Ensure system can meet or exceed defined SLA's.
• When primary on-call respond to pages within 15 minutes and resolve or escalate issue as necessary.
• Resolve production issues and communicate resolution to appropriate stakeholders.

Development:

• Complete stories within estimates and with quality to ensure release dates are met.
• Conduct necessary analysis, design, and prepare technical documentation
• Estimate story sizes and task out development for a given story.
• Follow the Railinc development process and suggest improvements.
• Work with infrastructure services to make configuration changes and deploy applications.

Leadership (Technical):

• Evangelize Railinc common practices and development procedures.
• Exhibit technical leadership in given technical subject domain.
• Identify new technologies and approaches that may improve our quality, productivity, and capabilities.
• Mentor peers and junior developers.
• Delegate, and coordinate functional development tasks as needed.
• Drive innovation in the development, release, and operations processes.

Key Measures:

• Measurable objective metrics

Knowledge, Skills, abilities/minimum requirements/competencies:

• Works under deadlines and subject to heavy project load.
• Ability to provide technical expertise to others and explain concepts with technical staff.
• Ability to operate independent of supervision with extreme accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience in defining requirements, designing, and illustrating process flows, and training users.
• Ability to communicate and follow up professionally (written and oral) both internally and externally within the organization – including documentation of application requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and resolve issues effectively.
• Ability to mentor others.
• 7 years of Java/J2EE Web Development Experience.
• Comfortable with front-end, middle tier and backend technologies.
• Expertise in front-end technologies like Angular, Spring MVC or equivalent, hands-on experience in these technologies a must in last 3 years.
• Expertise in Spring, Spring Boot and hibernate or equivalent ORM, hands on experience in these technologies a must in last 2 years.
• Experience is working with Docker and Kubernetes environment, hands on experience in building docker applications.
• Web Service SOAP/REST expertise, especially as a service provider.
• MDB/MDP/Broker/Service Bus MQ technologies development experience in last 2-3 years is a plus. If the candidate is just familiar with MQ or has minimal experience, needs to be really strong in specific front-end, backend technologies of Struts/Spring/hibernate.
• Expertise using Tomcat servers.
• Experience with Agile software development methodology.
• Expertise in using version control software like git, etc.
• Strong understanding of deployment processes, deployment environments, production application trouble shooting techniques etc. too.
• Experience to work with AWS cloud native services like S3, CloudFront, Lambda, ELB, SNS, SQS and Route53.
• Experience to deploy application components in AWS EKS cluster and to debug any issues.
• Experience in using Aurora RDS for database.
• Experience in using Amazon MQ for message broker service will be a plus.

Education, experience, certification/training:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 7 years of technical experience or
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent field desired and 3 years of technical experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in a development environment.
• AWS Developer or Solutions Architect certification will be a plus.