Lead Software Engineer

Job Title: Full Stack Java Developer

Job Duration: Right to Hire

Job Location: Newark, NJ?(Hybrid)

Client: Prudential

What You'll Do:

• Design, code, debug and automate applications.
• Setup opensource Backstage Developer Experience Platform on AWS.
• Develop plugins and templates using typescripts.
• Manage and maintain Backstage platform.
• Drive working sessions to teach plugin and template development.
• Onboard team to host documentation, toots stack, templates and plugin.
• Build platforms, tools, frameworks and starter kits ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles and remove technical impediments.
• Develop high quality, detailed, and efficient code adhering to all applicable standards.
• Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining feature stories, tech leads in defining technical design and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact.
• Unit test, integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems.
• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.
• Support product owner and tech lead in defining future stories and technical designs.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields.
• Ability to mentor others with minimal guidance and optimally leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD.)
• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions.
• Writes technical posts that at once answer common questions/address technical concerns that might inhibit developers from working with our products. 
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills.
• Actively participates in engineering efforts that help streamline the Developer Experience of our Product.

 Advanced Experience and Expertise:

• Developing end to end web, mobile applications, Frameworks, toolkits and SDK development.
• Backstage or any other Internal Developer Portal experience.
• Solid understanding of MVC design pattern, dependency injection.
• Proven experience with ReactJS, React Native, JavaScript, ES5/ES6, Responsive UI, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Material UI, Bootstrap, EJS template, Redis, Jasmine, Karma, JSON, REST, TypeScript, ES6, NPM, Bower, Gulp, Grunt, Webpack
• Automation testing.
• Backend technologies including Spring Boot, Java, Groovy, Maven, Mongo DB, Dynamo DB, Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, Node JS, Docker, Kubernetes
• Monitoring and logging techniques and tools such as CloudWatch, Nagios, Splunk and Dynatrace.
• Software security skills including secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0).
• Dev Ops Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub, Bitbucket or Subversion; DevOps, Jenkins, CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CodeBuild and CodeDeploy.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Cloud Certified.
• Knowledge on Service Mesh technologies.
• Experience working in a continuous integration environment especially in microservices, web and Mobile.
• Solid understanding of configuration management software such as Power Shell, Tera form, Ansible, Continuous integration tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins.
• Developing complete solutions considering sizing, infrastructure, data protection, disaster recovery, security, application requirements on cloud enterprise systems.
• Experience adhering to an Agile development environment and iterative sprint cycle