Java Software Engineer

• Competent to perform all programming and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
• Acts as team leader for development and support groups; provides programming and application/technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drives application development focused on delivering business-valuable features
• Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Mentors junior developers.
• Communicates with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness.
• Leads the development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional teams
• Performs integration testing and customer acceptance testing of components that require careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results
• Participates in technology evaluation and recommendations.
• Applies an enterprise-wide view to solutions to support the adoption of standards and practices and promote reuse.
• Employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by management from time to time.

WHAT YOU WILL GET WITH ELEKS

• Close cooperation with a customer
• Challenging tasks
• Competence development
• Ability to influence project technologies
• Team of professionals
• Dynamic environment with low level of bureaucracy

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience designing and developing enterprise Java applications (5+ years with a Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field)
• Strong expertise in Java 17+ and backend development
• Experience developing scalable software applications using relational and NoSQL databases
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem
• Solid understanding of software architecture patterns, including MVC, Microservices, and Event-driven Architecture
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs
• Experience with API design and testing tools such as OpenAPI (Swagger), Postman, and Assertible
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, including IAM, API Gateway, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, ALB, NLB, Fargate, SQS, SNS, and KMS
• Experience with messaging and event streaming technologies such as Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Apache ActiveMQ
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices using Jenkins or similar tools
• Experience delivering highly available, scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant backend solutions
• Understanding of software architecture principles and experience contributing to technical design decisions
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet project deadlines
• Passion for technology and eagerness to contribute to a collaborative, team-oriented environment

ELEKS is a custom software development company. We deliver value to our clients, thanks to our expertise and experience gained from working as a software innovation partner since 1991.

Our 2000+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe and North America, provide our clients with a full range of software engineering services. These include product development, QA, R&D, design, technology consulting and dedicated teams.