Java developer

About Apexon:

Apexon is a digital-first technology services firm specializing in accelerating business transformation and delivering human-centric digital experiences. For over 17 years, Apexon has been meeting customers wherever they are in the digital lifecycle and helping them outperform their competition through speed and innovation. Our reputation is built on a comprehensive suite of engineering services, a dedication to solving our clients’ toughest technology problems, and a commitment to continuous improvement. We focus on three broad areas of digital services: User Experience (UI/UX, Commerce); Engineering (QE/Automation, Cloud, Product/Platform); and Data (Foundation, Analytics, and AI/ML), and have deep expertise in BFSI, healthcare, and life sciences.

Apexon is backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital.

To know more about us please visit: https://www.apexon.com/

About the role:

This role will help build and support the data factory, keying and Linking and Credit Products on Azure. The role will also in addition automate Infra as a code to protect data, performance, secure product and customer interactions. Configure and deploy tools to leverage operational metrics to support customers with sys on glass monitoring and via alerts to help with L2 and L3 support.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Produce well-designed, testable, efficient quality code
• Ensure designs comply with specifications
• Prepare and produce releases of software components
• Support continuous improvement and innovation
• Produce quality documentation for the support teams
• Troubleshoot / Diagnose issues and identify appropriate solutions

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent experience required.
• 8 to 12 years of experience designing, developing and implementing software applications and hands-on experience with large-scale applications at large institutions with technologies like Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, producing & consuming REST API’s.
• Experience with front-end / UI technologies – ReactJS, JavaScript, HTML CSS
• Strong expertise on Kafka, event-driven architecture
• Strong experience using one or more Relational & non-relational NoSQL databases (Oracle, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis).
• Expertise in Security, IAM Policies and Networking.

Great to Have:

• Experience with Kubernetes, Openshift
• Experience with Azure Event Hub, Azure Blob Storage, Stream Analytics.
• Practical experience with the end-to-end DevOps CI/CD pipeline including one or more of the following: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Maven, Gitlab, and SonarQube.
• Strong experience on event-based architecture leading strategy, governance and execution of event-based architecture at large institutions.
• Financial services industry experience.
• Experience with analytics and performance monitoring.
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Experience in the day-to-day practicalities of Agile software Product Development Lifecycles such as Scrum, SAFe, DAD, Lean-Agile, Kanban, etc.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software development experience in java.
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e. g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript/Typescript, XML, jQuery)
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Experience with Micro Services based architecture
• Experience with Angular 5 Angular 8 and/or experience with React JS
• Strong debugging/troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of SDLC, Agile methodologies
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer.
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Familiarity with common stacks Knowledge of multiple back-end languages (e. g. C#, Java, Python) and JavaScript frameworks (e. g. Angular, React, Node.js )Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with databases (e. g. MySQL, PostgreSQL), web servers (e. g. Tomcat, Apache).
• Excellent communication and ability to lead a 5-10 member team

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the entire development process for the Internal IP (e.g. Quality Fusion)
• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software solutions
• Analyzing user requirements, envisioning system features and functionality.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable codes by setting expectations and features priorities throughout the development life cycle.
• Working with Senior leadership and stakeholders to present ideas and solutions
• Design client-side and server-side architecture
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
• Write effective APIsTest software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency in troubleshooting, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings.

• Bring in a "can-do" attitude
• Passion towards technology and software engineering - open source, pet projects, conference talks, getting better at writing clean code.
• Participate in a highly fluid environment applying agile software development principles.
• Carry out unit tests and other quality control mechanisms to inform and validate the designs and code
• Work with product owner/BAs to bring an end to end perspective of the problem.
• Ability to ask the right questions and communicate your ideas with clarity.
• Ability to collaborate with various stakeholders and take complete ownership.
• Participate actively in building one of the most impactful organizations in retail technology.

• Quickly adapt to our startup environment which is both demanding and fast-paced (but is also a lot of fun).
• Eager in learning new concepts, technologies and be productive in short time.
• Convert a raw idea into usable real-life software products Write modular, readable and maintainable code.
• Good understanding and working knowledge of technologies worked.
• Demonstrate good problem solving skills
• Own and be able to manage a small to medium sized modules.
• Demonstrate ability to guide and coach a new team member or fresher.

Relevant experience on using tools like JSP, Servlet for web applications

· MVC frame works - Struts or Spring

· Web services- SOAP and REST WebLogic, Hibernate

· Middleware technologies MQ OSB.

· Web/App Servers: Tomcat or WebLogic or JBoss

· Experience using Angular, Micro Services using Spring, jersey, Swagger

· Good knowledge of Backend and Front-end technologies

· Good knowledge of Core Java, J2EE, Ajax, Spring, Java Script, jQuery, HTML

· Good knowledge of any RDBMS database like SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL & Cluster set-up, performance benchmarking, client-side API evaluation, knowledge of various deployment strategies

· Strong knowledge with Core JAVA concepts – Exception handling, Multi-threading, Collection, String, OOPS etc…

· Advanced understanding of Windows and Linux based operating systems

· Mainly 3-4 months hands on with reverse engineering and old legacy solutions to new modern applications

· Working knowledge using REST, HTTP, TCP, SCTP protocols

· Hands-on with JAVA frameworks such as – Thread Pool Executor, Object Pooling, Logging (Log4j preferred), XML/JSON handling

Education Criteria:

· Preferred BE degree in CS, E&C, E&E

· Proficient being a J2EE Developer (courses or project done) and data analytics skills

· Flexible to work on any projects assigned

Note: Terms & Conditions

· This opportunity will be work from office

· Reporting location - Bangalore office, Vijayanagar

Position Purpose:

The Software Engineer II is responsible for independently developing and assisting in the design of a product that our customers and associates love. As a Software Engineer II, you will be part of a dynamic team with engineers of all experience levels who help each other build and grow technical and leadership skills while creating, deploying, and supporting production applications. In addition, Software Engineer IIs may be involved in configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning and production monitoring.

Major Tasks, Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:

Delivery and Execution - Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions; Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met; Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable; Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases; Writes custom code or scripts to do destructive testing to ensure adequate resiliency in production; Program configuration/modification and setup activities on large projects using HD approved methodology; Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively

Learning - Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels; Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems

Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Assists in creating new and better ways for the team to be successful; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people; Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives

Education Required:

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Years of Relevant Work Experience:

3+ years

Preferred Qualifications:

• Should have worked in a SaaS Company
• Experience in creating developer friendly integrations with other Apps/Software
• Experience in writing SQL queries against a relational database
• Experience in version control systems
• Experience in front end technology such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript/Typescript frameworks
• Experience in an object-oriented programming language (preferably Java)
• Experience in source code version control
• Experience in Relational or noSQL database technology
• Experience in cloud computing techniques
• Experience in CI/CD tools
• Experience in microservice-based architecture
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Exposure to security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
• Exposure to creating and executing unit, functional, destructive and performance tests

Strong experience on core Java (Version >=1.8 )

Strong experience on Spring ecosystem (Core, MVC, data, JPA, transaction management, security, AOP, Batch & Boot). Comfortable performing integration tests in Spring context.

Strong experience on JDBC and DB concepts.

Experience of TDD/BDD approach and prior experience working with CI/CD tools (Maven, Git, jenkins)

Strong experience on ORM (hibernate) and PL/SQL procedures

Knowledge of some of UI latest languages / frameworks ( Html5, Angular 4+)

Knowledge of SOA/Microservices (REST, Soap) and its challenges

Strong knowledge on APP server (Tomcat, Weblogic)

Strong knowledge on Microservices

Exposure on Digital stack

-          UX/UI

-          API

-          Machine Learning

-          Big Data

-          Cloud/Docker/IaaS/PaaS

Knowledge on Java Swing

Experience delivering sound development, testing, implementation, deployment and support strategies in complex distributed environments.

Knowledge on production monitoring tools.

Good experience in leading change within a team, especially around testing and quality practices.

Team player, who relentlessly involves others and shares knowledge with them

Should have experience of participant in design reviews and code reviews.

Curiosity in all the latest trends and ready to do POCs with new technical stack