Java Developers - W2 Contract

Position
As a Java Software Developer, you will be responsible for analysis, design, implementation, and automated testing in a high-performing, experienced team. You will use industry best practices while producing high-quality full-stack solutions in an agile, results driven environment across a diverse set of areas, including: finance, infrastructure, test center utilization, e-commerce, registration and scheduling. You will also be responsible for maintaining and supporting mission-critical applications as necessary. In this role, every day you will be expected to continually grow and challenge all of us to raise the bar even higher with your contributions to people, process and technology. This is a highly collaborative team continually working on a variety of complex and challenging projects. The Software Developer will:

• Analyze & Design -- Ensure business and requirements artifacts are created that effectively model the customer's requirements. Will use industry best practices and tools, and will use established patterns and/or recommend new design patterns.
• Implement & Perform -- Implement designs following Pearson coding standards and industry best practices; maintain and support mission-critical applications as necessary.
• Review -- Participate in and lead requirement, design code, and test case reviews
• Test & Deploy -- Work closely with other teams (e.g., QA, configuration management, end users) to release high quality software. Create testable code that meets requirements, and ensure automated unit, integration and functional tests are created.
• Improve Quality/Processes -- Participate in group improvement activities and initiatives to improve process and product quality in pursuit of excellence
• Document and Report -- Complete project documentation as required, including logging status, risk, progress, and effort on assigned work
• People development - Mentor and train new team members; actively collaborate with others within and outside of the team
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications:
Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline
• 3+ years minimum Java development required
• 1+ years programmatic interaction with relational database systems
• Current technology stack: Java, JPA, Hibernate, Web Services (REST/SOAP), AngularJS, JQuery
• Experience in OOAD, agile processes, design patterns, SQL and UML

Desired Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Experience working in agile environment highly preferred
• Experience in creating design documents, performing code reviews and test driven development
• Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools
• Proven ability to quickly learn new processes and tools, business domains and technical applications
• Ability to think technically and analytically
• Ability to understand philosophy of architecture
• Must assimilate information, distill knowledge, apply experience and provide solution alternatives and recommendations
• Must have strong time management skills - including ability to work well under pressure, plan, set priorities, adapt to change, and meet established timelines
• Must develop effective relationships with internal and external contacts and work well within a team
• Must be a self-starter and detail-oriented
• Must have a "positive and energetic demeanor
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of OWASP Top 10

Experience with some or all of the following tools (Required):

• Java SE and EE (3 - 5 years)
• Python (1 year) - machine learning
• Spring (1 - 2 years)
• Web Services (SOAP/REST) (1 - 2 years)
• SQL (3+ years)
• Requirements & analysis experience
• OOAD design
• Agile development
• Design patterns
• Security protocols, cryptography, authentication and security standards

Experience with some or all of the following (Preferred):

• JPA
• Hibernate
• AngularJS (and other Javascript frameworks such as jQuery)
• Swing
• Tomcat
• Jersey
• SQL Server (Transact-SQL)
• Liquibase
• Machine Learning / AI
• Secure programming practices

The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. The Company will consider all qualified applicants for employment without r egard to race, color, religious creed, citizenship, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, veteran or marital status, or any other class protected by law. To comply with applicable laws ensuring equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability, the Company will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or an employee unless undue hardship to the Company would result. - provided by Dice