Software Engineer JAVA

Essential Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the Agile software development life cycle and distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.
• Work closely with your peers and keep engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team
• Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus on delivering tasks to meet monthly and quarterly digital product release goals
• Lead impact assessment and decisions related to technology choices, design / architectural considerations and implementation strategy
• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
• Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
• Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
• Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
• Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and apply existing technology to designs
• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
• 6+ years of experience in Full Stack Software Development within the enterprise or software services domain

Desired Skills:

• Expertise in full stack software development and awareness of 12 Factor software patterns
• Experience and knowledge of patterns and anti-patterns of microservices-based architecture design
• Experience developing and deploying applications on cloud (Azure, AWS, or GCP), on-premise, and hybrid-based architectures
• Mid-Level to Expert within one or more of the following UI development JavaScript: Client-Side HTML5 jQuery, jQuery UI, Knockout.js,
• Polymer, AngularJS, ReactJS, Bootstrap
• Mid-Level to Expert within one or more of the back-end development languages: .NET, Java, Python, or Scala
• Very solid API skills (e.g. Express.js/Node.js, GraphQL/Relay, Flask, Jersey, Java Spring REST or WebApi2)
• Skilled in use of Java, Kafka, and Spark streaming technologies
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Rancher, Kubernetes, Docker and Helm
• Hands-on experience in data storage environments of many types (RDMS, NoSQL, HDFS, etc.)
• Knowledge of GitLab, Jenkins and Artifactory
• Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO Design with rock-solid programming skills
• Security: Identity Management and Access, application security and static code analysis
• Proven success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment
• Strong interpersonal skills, analytical skills, combined with intellectual curiosity, and a desire and ability to "get things done" are essential
• Agile Scrum development experience
• Added advantage to those having experience in multi-tenant SaaS Platform and Developers' Portal development

What You will do

● Create beautiful software experiences for our customers using design thinking, lean and agile methodology.

● Design and develop software products from scratch using the latest cutting edge technologies, platforms and languages such as JAVA, python, Javascript, GoLang and Scala.

● Work in a dynamic, collaborative, transparent, non-hierarchical culture.

● Help to grow the next generation of developers and have a positive impact on the industry.

Basic Qualifications

● Experience: 8+ years.

● Engineering Degree in Computer Science OR Equivalent.

● Hands-on development experience with a broad mix of languages such as JAVA, Python, Javascript etc.

● Server-side development experience mainly in JAVA, (Python and nodeJS can be considerable)

● UI development experience in ReactJS or AngularJS or PolymerJS or EmberJS or Jquery etc.

● Passion for software engineering and follow the best coding concepts. ● Good to great problem solving and communication skills.

● Must have experience in technical architecture and design , code reviews and mentoring junior developers.

● Should have experience in stakeholder management and work along with architects as and when necessary to lead the project.

Nice to have Qualifications

● Product engineering and customer-centric mindset.

● Great OOP skills, including design patterns.

● Experience with devops, continuous integration & deployment.

● Exposure to big data technologies, Machine Learning and NLP will be a plus.

Benefits

● Competitive salary.

● Work from anywhere.

● Reimbursements for remote work set up.

● Insurance (including a top up insurance for COVID).

● Free Access to Online learning libraries such as O'reilly or equivalent Location Remote - work from anywhere

About the job

Whirldata Inc. is an AI/Data Sciences/App Dev company established in 2017 to provide management and technology consulting services to small and medium enterprises across the globe. We are headquartered in California and our team works out of Chennai. The specific focus is on

1. Helping clients identify areas where Data Sciences and AI-based approaches can increase revenues, decrease costs or enhance customer engagement experience
2. Help clients translate business needs into process flows for exploratory and cutting-edge applications
3. Provide appropriate and targeted solutions that can achieve the planned objective

Whirldatas management team consists of individuals with a combined 45+ years of management and technology consulting experience, spanning multiple verticals such as finance, energy, retail, manufacturing and supply chain/logistics. Please look up our website and go through the blogs/videos/articles to find out more about us.

Working Philosophy

Whirldata works on the principle that, larger business goals come first and any technology-intensive solutions need to support necessary business goals. Hence all engagements start as a management consulting exercise and solution building follows after a thorough understanding of business needs.At Whirldata, we put our minds together, mix technology, art & math to deliver a viable, scalable and affordable business solution. We are passionate about what we do because we know that our work has the power to improve businesses. You can join our team working at the forefront of new technology, solving the challenges that impact both the front-end and back-end architectures, and ultimately, delivering amazing global user experiences.

Who we are looking for:

Full Stack Engineer (Position based in Chennai)

The following criteria are mandatory requirements and we strongly encourage that you apply only if you meet all these criteria:

1. Minimum 3 years of work experience

2. Proven capability to understand clients business needs

3. At least one demonstrable stint of architecting a database from scratch

4. Multiple programming language capabilities a must. In-depth knowledge of at least one programming language

5. Willingness to wear multiple hats depending on our business needs will be a priority

6. At least 2 years of hands-on experience in front-end development

7. Knowledge of current tools, platforms and languages an absolute must

8. Hands-on experience in cloud technologies and project management capabilities will be considered favourably

What do you get in return

• AI, Data Sciences and App dev require individuals who are both business and tech-savvy. We will turn you into one and make you a rockstar!
• You will get to work in an environment where your effort helps the customer and you will get to see it
• We will provide on-the-job training that will make you a doer and not a talker on data sciences, AI and app dev
• Opportunities to shine and pave your own way forward. We are good at identifying your talents and providing a platform where you will get immense satisfaction from demonstrating the same.
• Of course - we will pay you well too!

If you are interested - please apply with a small note with your thoughts on why you find this opportunity exciting and why you are willing to consider a move.

Candidates MUST HAVE :

● Deep expertise with JavaScript. Extensive hands-on experience building microservices using NodeJs.

● Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions.

● Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns

● Strong experience and understanding of various APIS / Web Services and SQL/NoSQL databases

● Architected non-trivial solutions for a company at a scale

● Proficient in unit testing, writing mocks, automated functional tests, and end-end tests

● Experience with a variety of languages, stacks, and programming paradigms

● Capability to contribute across the web and mobile stacks

● Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly

● The ability to independently lead problem-solving and build elegant, maintainable solutions to complex problems.

Good to Have

● Experience in building projects with TypeScript, ExpressJs, NextJS, ReactJs, Flutte,r etc.

● Experience with gRPC or GraphQL API implementations.

● Experience in any other programming languages such as Python/Go/Scala

● Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and

● Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

● Good hand-on with data streaming technologies like Kafka

● Experience with cloud APIs (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure)

● Understanding on information security and data privacy

● Experience in open-source development and contribution to open-source technology

Roles and Responsibilities :

● Write clean, reliable, reusable, scalable, testable and maintainable code.

● Produce best in class documentation, testing and monitoring

● Estimate effort, identify risks

● Mentor/coach other engineers in the team to facilitate their development and to provide technical leadership to them.

● Rise above details as and when needed to spot broader issues/trends and implications for the product/team as a whole

● Practice and promote craftsmanship in software engineering (coding, testing, code reviews, documentation, scalability, performance, etc.)

● Break down requirements, estimate tasks, and assist in planning roadmap accurately

● Develop iterative solutions to address expansive product goals

● Platformism components as libraries, utilities and promote reuse

● Be able to conceptualize and develop prototypes quickly

● Own large technical deliverables and execute in a structured manner.

● Take accountability for the overall health of the products you build and ensure predictability of the deliverables of your team 1

● Drive technical roadmap of the team in collaboration with Product and Business Teams.

• Work with development teams and product managers to ideate software 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 APIs
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
• Create security and data protection settings
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design
• Write technical documentation
• Work with data scientists and analysts to improve software

We are looking for a Java Full Stack Senior web developer, having 5+ years of experience in Java Full Stack enterprise level web application development.

Technical Skills:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Java Full stack enterprise level web application development
• Comprehensive knowledge of Web design patterns and UI frameworks like AngularJS, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and MVC framework like spring and Spring Boot.
• Hands-on experience in Java based front-end and back-end technologies
• Working experience in developing web services using HTTP REST and SOAP
• Experience in any one of the industry leading databases; Preferably Microsoft SQL Server.
• Working experience in Industry Standard protocols related API Security including OAuth/OAuth2 is a must.
• Unit and integration testing using Junit 5 and Mockito.
• Hands on experience with source code management and continuous integration/delivery processes and tools such as GitHub, Jenkin Maven and Azure DevOps.
• Specialist expertise in one cloud platform and preferably with Microsoft Azure.
• Strong work ethic, communication skills & good time management with ability to collaborate with diverse teams and stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills
  • ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions
  • skilled in interfacing with internal and external technical resources
  • good in debugging problems and mentoring teams on technical front

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Participate and contribute to platform requirements/story development.
• Involve in Platform Sprint activities.
• Development of assigned stories in appropriate languages defined for each module.

Process Skills:

• Agile – Scrum and Test-Driven Development

Behavioral Skills:

• Result oriented team player
• Good in communication
• Interpersonal skills

Qualification:

• Bachelor of Engineering (Computer background preferred)

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain software applications.
• Go the extra mile to identify customer needs and pain-points. 
• Relentless focus on delivering high quality, bug-free code.
• Help and mentor those around you to achieve the team and company goals.
• Closely work with the SRE and DevOps team to set up microservices infrastructure. 
• Maintaining and auditing code/design quality as per set guidelines and standards in assigned projects.
• Testing of completed tasks in ongoing projects in the team before sending updates to reporting authority/client.
• Participate in application design, code reviews and documentation.

Requirements:

• Experience in agile development process.
• Excellent knowledge of HTML5, CSS3.
• Excellent knowledge of JavaScript.
• Experience with cross-browser, cross-platform and design constraints on the web
• Good understanding and experience of working on Vue.js/React.js.
• Prior experience building REST APIs
• Hands-on experience with Node.js/Golang/Java + Redis + Elasticsearch.
• Experience with AWS/GCP is a plus
• Knowledge of version control systems like GIT.
• Experience in developing automated unit and functional tests
• 1+ years of experience with a Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Developing complete website architecture.
• Creating websites/a website using standard HTML/CSS practices
• Designing user interactions on web pages. 
• Developing back end website applications. 
• Creating servers and databases for functionality. 
• Ensuring cross-platform optimization for mobile phones. 
• Ensuring responsiveness of applications. 
• Seeing through a project from conception to finished product. 
• Designing and developing APIs. 
• Meeting both technical and consumer needs. 
• Researching different software programs, maintaining software documentation
• Implementing contingency plans in case the website goes down
• Maintaining and expanding/enhancing the website once built