Senior Java Developer

4 Agile/XP development

4 Java and/or Groovy

4 Cassandra

4 Spring

4 Unit testing (JUnit/Spock/Mockito/EasyMock)

4 Refactoring and design skills

3 Maven

2 SQL/PL-SQL

Nice to have skills:

· Experience as a Technical Lead on a large application development project

· Experience working in a Continuous Integration environment

· Experience with functional testing frameworks

· Experience in e-commerce frameworks like ATG

What are the soft skills that you feel candidates must-have in order to be successful in this role?

1. Strong social and communication skills
2. Team oriented focus
3. Takes initiative, self starter. Able to identify work that needs to be done on their own., What are the MUST have skills and technologies that you are looking for in a candidate?

Must Have Skills:

· At least ten years of relevant application software development experience

· Test-Driven Development

Strong Spring knowledge

· Developing Spring/Java/Groovy/Maven applications

· Experience with NoSQL Cassandra

· Experience with MQ(Rabbit/IBM/JMS/AMPQ)

· Experience in developing/consuming REST Services - Absolute Must

· Object-oriented programming and experience with working knowledge of Design Patterns

· Experience with emergent design and paired programming

· High comfort level with Unix/Linux command line

· Strong unit-testing skills (Junit/Spock in particular)

· Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures

· Able to participate in the planning process: take high level

design discussions and create user stories, then further break those stories into tasks.

We specialize in Staffing, Consulting, Software Development, and Training along with IT services to small to medium size companies. AG’s primary objective is to help companies maximize their IT resources and meet the ever-changing IT needs and challenges.

In addition, AG offers enterprise resource planning and enterprise application integration, supply-chain management, e-commerce solutions, and B2B public exchanges and B2B process integration solutions. Our company provides application analysis, design, development and programming, software engineering, systems development, testing, integration, and implementation, and management consulting services to various clients - including governmental agencies and private companies - throughout the United States and India.

We provide these services in multiple computing environments and use technologies such as client/server architecture, object-oriented programming languages and tools, distributed database management systems, state-of-the-art networking, and communications infrastructures. Our honest and realistic approach to recruiting dictates that AG does not entice or lure engineers from their employers. We represent only high caliber technical professionals who have committed to making a change required by career.