Our client, a leading broadcasting company, is hiring a Sr Software Engineer (Java/AWS) on a contract basis.
Job ID:82643
Work Location:
Boston, MA (Remote Working Model)
Summary:
This position entails that the candidate would bring knowledge, ideas, proposals to solve business problems within the realm of AWS Well Architected Framework and collaborate within and outside the team (other stakeholders) to develop solutions based off AWS best practices.
The main area of focus for this role is to work closely with the team on developing features based off AWS native services and established frameworks.
The candidate would leverage the established Architecture Decision Records, actively drive innovation by introducing new and relevant technical solutions using AWS primitives to provide a competitive advantage and provide valuable technical insights, contribute to decision-making processes that extends outside of immediate team, knowledgebase creation (wikis, ADRs, training) and propose new/alternative solutioning approaches.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Play a pivotal role in the early stages of shaping new product features, contributing technical insights that drive product management decision-making.
- Demonstrate knowledge of alternative technology choices and provide innovative solution suggestions to strategic problems.
- Develop code using AWS primitives conforming to the Enterprise Level Architecture
- Develop GitHub Action workflows to orchestrate CI/CD tasks.
- Develop performance requirements to ensure that all applications are highly scalable and can support high volumes of traffic.
- Monitor application performance and underlying infrastructure health in production as well dev/test environments.
- Work closely with other areas of the company including business teams and other design/development teams.
- Ensure unit, system, integration, stress, and user acceptance testing are in alignment with architecture.
- Build comprehensive DevOps into the delivery architecture including, but not limited to automated testing, continuous integration, branching and merging code streams, build generation and deployments by leveraging Platform Engineering published templates.
- Anticipate and resolve technical problems and solve difficult challenges.
- Recommend and promote new technologies and best practices to enable us to better support our customers.
- Recommend tools and utilities for design, development, testing and management of web-based applications.
- Perform code reviews to ensure that code is compliant with design and coding standards.
- Provide coaching and support to help others find solutions and accomplish goals despite incomplete information.
Required Qualifications:
- Strong focus on AWS technologies for developing solutions, application deployments and performance monitoring.
- Excellent ability to develop code using Object Oriented or Functional Programming Language
- Interpersonal skills and ability to interact and work with staff at all levels.
- Broad thinking and the ability to ask relevant questions, incorporating new information and concepts when generating solutions.
- Clear understanding of the business and a strong ability to contribute technical insights that drive product management decision-making.
- Proactive mindset with the ability to quickly identify possibilities and opportunities and take action to achieve tangible results.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment.
- Ability to pay attention to details and be organized.
- Ability to prioritize work and be cognizant of accumulating technical debt while developing solutions.
- Ability to project professionalism over the phone and in person.
- Commitment to “internal client” and customer service principles.
- Willingness to take initiative and to follow through on projects.
- Excellent time management skills, with the ability to prioritize and multi-task, and work
- under shifting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, relevant experience.
- 5+ years of practical work experience, including hands-on application development.
- 2 years of Developer experience using one or more of the following AWS primitives such as Lambda, EC2, Fargate, Gateway, ECS, DMS/RDS, AWS, SQS, SNS, Kinesis, DynamoDB,
- KMS, SecretsManager, CloudWatch etc.
- AWS Certified Developer or Solutions Architect preferred but not required
- Must have legal right to work in the U.S.
Technical Skills:
- Java/Springboot 5+ years
- Hands on experience with AWS Lambda, Fargate
- Well verse with AWS Kinesis / other data streaming services.
- Experience using DynamoDB / other NoSQL databases
- Hands on experience with developing GitHub Action workflows
- Hands on experience with typescript-based CI/CD scripts
- Knowledge of AWS well architected framework
- First-hand experience on performance monitoring, log analysis either using AWS
- CloudWatch or DataDog
- SQL and common database knowledge preferred.
- Basic Linux/UNIX experience preferred.
- Source code control systems: e.g., GitHub preferred.
- Experience with large-scale, high-volume web-based applications.
- Experience with internationalization preferred.
- Capable of working in an Agile Scrum team.
Pay Rate: $70- $95/hourly W2