Software Engineer

What you’ll do…

• Drive the definition, technical design, development, and delivery of complex, high-quality solutions.
• This includes coding, testing, and deployment of critical features for Connected Consumer and Vehicle applications, ensuring consistency, optimization, resilience, and security.
• Utilize Java (Spring Boot), Angular, and RESTful APIs, TDD, and other agile principles (e.g., Jira) throughout the development lifecycle. Implement and advocate for best practices in software craftsmanship, ensuring solutions are well-documented, maintainable, and adhere to high coding standards.
• Develop and implement comprehensive test plans, automate delivery processes, and continuously improve efficiency to eliminate waste and facilitate rapid, reliable feature releases.
• Architect comprehensive API load-testing strategies and spearhead threat-modeling initiatives in collaboration with security teams to ensure robust, high-performance systems.
• Proven experience designing and operating cloud-native systems on GCP (networking/IAM, containerized workloads, observability, CI/CD), APIGEE, GCP Logging, Terraform scripts, etc. and deployment pipelines like Cloud Build and Tekton.
• Strong experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL/SQL/Mongo), data modeling, transactional integrity, and performance tuning.
• Collaborate effectively with cross functional teams and translate requirements into technical specifications and provide ongoing support for application features.

• Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Information Technology or related
• 6+ years of experience building and maintaining complex enterprise web applications in microservice product architecture
• 4+ years expertise in core technologies, including Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Angular, React, RESTful APIs.
• 2+ years’ experience with MongoDB, relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), and NoSQL solutions
• 4+ years of Solid understanding of CI/CD pipeline design and implementation in a GitHub-based development workflow
• Experience in designing, developing, and implementing projects using GCP Cloud computing technologies, database, Redis, Istio, Multi-Tenant, and Single Tenant
• Experience in successfully migrating legacy applications to modern cloud-based architectures utilizing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud technologies.
• Efficient with canary deployments, and API related technologies such as JSON, REST, Swagger and Hoppscotch.
• Knowledge of Continuous Delivery process and tools, testing frameworks and practices (preferably GitHub, Ready API, Terraform, Tekton, etc.).
• Generate metrics, perform user access authorization, maintain passwords, and build deployment pipelines.
• Lead and participate in incident, problem, change, and service request-related activities, including root cause analysis and proactive problem management.

Even better, you may have…

• Ability to grasp concepts quickly and implement learning fast
• Passion for engineering excellence
• Effectively communicate your ideas and listen to others
• Problem-solving - not only technically but also with competing visions from teammates and partners Industry technical certifications
• Good knowledge of testing and security methodologies and tools such as SonarQube, CheckMarx
• Good understand of logging and monitoring tools such as Splunk, and DynaTrace
• Good understanding of performance and load engineering and tuning Agile Project Management tools (JIRA) is a plus
• Experience creating technical specifications
• Business process improvement experience
• You may not check every box, or your experience may look a little different from what we’ve outlined, but if you think you can bring value to Company, we encourage you to apply!

Skills Required:

• PostgreSQL - to save perform CRUD operations.
• GitHub - code base repository. Must be able to connect and work with it.
• Jenkins - CI/CD tool. Should be able to configure and deploy artifacts
• Java - coding language to build the application
• Jira - SRUM board to pick the work and update the status
• MongoDB - non relational database

Experience Required:

• Engineer 3 Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang.
• 6+ years in IT
• 4+ years in development

Education Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way. We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years! FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused. We’ve differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you’ve heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies. Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match