Contract Duration: 6 months Months

Location - Atlanta, GA & Minneapolis MN

Required Skills & Experience

• C experience with C v11/14/17
• Linux programming, especially with classes, namespaces, std containers.
• There are 2 new API libraries that have to be learned and juggled
• Modern Kafka / librdkafka libraries.
• JSON C parsing.
• High School Diploma, GED, or High School Equivalency
• 2 years’ experience in Java, Full-stack, C#, .NET and/or Python development experience is required
• Experience working with GitHub and/or GitLab, SonarQube, JUnit, Spring Boot
• Skilled in writing, designing unit test cases using TDD and BDD methodologies
• Hands on experience of virtualizing services for test automation using tools such as Wire Mock, Mockito etc.
• Hands on experience of designing and writing automated tests for backend applications and data flow, using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, Cypress, Ready API etc.
• Hands on experience of working with continuous integration tools such Jenkins, Circle CI.
• Broad hands on experience in AWS Cloud serverless components and ability to build and maintain cloud data processing systems (i.e. ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, SQS/SNS, PostgreSQL, Dynamo, Sagemaker, Athena, etc.)
• Experience using relational and object databases and web service development standards and practices, including RESTful APIs, micro-services, and services
• Experience working in an agile development environment using workload management tools like VersionOne/Agility
• Expert troubleshooting and deployment experience with strong understanding of transforming business and functional requirements into efficient technical solutions
• Experience with system integrations, optimizing performance and data integrity

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, with 4 years of relevant technical experience or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems with 2 years of technical experience.
• Hands on experience of creating test reports from automation test run using tools such as cucumber report, Extent report etc.
• Experience with OpenShift
• Working knowledge of MQ
• AWS Certification is a plus
• DevOps and/or automation experience in code testing, building, and deployment a plus
• Experience building computer software within the airline industry is a plus
• Knowledge of Windows Server and HP-UX operating systems a plus

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop amazingly efficient and effective software using Java, C#, Python, .Net, Spring Boot, Microservices, APIs
• Enhance and maintain on prem and internal PAAS applications, and actively rework these to AWS along project timelines
• Help to design and implement serverless patterns from containerized applications
• Build industry standard APIs and help with establishing, consuming & routing calls, connectivity protocols and policy
• Design, develop and implement architecture patterns that are optimized for SLAs, reliability, and cost
• Look upstream and downstream to see around corners and anticipate future consequences for immediate technical choices
• Help to establish and grow a culture of software craftsmanship best practices, including TDD/BDD and Test Automation (both Unit and Integration), Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment
• Drive performance improvements including monitoring, detailed metrics, problems, trends, and costs, in order to determine solutions, required process changes, etc. that will make the function more efficient
• Ensure adherence to security standards and compliance with privacy rules and regulations early in the development
• Be aggressive to resolve and prevent technical debt
• Actively engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives, with an aim to continuously improve
• Collaborate frequently to share ideas and gain perspective. Communicate critical information in a clear and timely manner, listen to others, and seek clarification to confirm shared understanding
• Initiate and lead code reviews and continuous improvement efforts
• Create usable documentation/playbook(s)
• Effectively analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs - communicate these across the team
• Optimize pace and meet deadlines
• Administer product upgrades and patches
• Provide assistance and support other team members where required, including troubleshooting and maintenance of production systems/programs/applications
• 24/7 On-call support rotation function is a component of this role