Employment Type: Temporary

Estimated Duration (In Weeks): 70

The client is seeking an experienced Java developer with 8 years of experience in software design, development, and deployment, particularly with relational and NoSQL databases, CI/CD tools, and public cloud platforms like AWS or Azure. The candidate should demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, the ability to work independently, and experience with Agile methodologies. Key responsibilities include driving application development, mentoring junior engineers, and maintaining high software quality standards. A Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science or a related field is required, with a preference for local candidates in the Chicago area. The position requires a hybrid work model with office attendance twice a week.

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

• Team member contributing to programming, project management, and development assignments. 
• Working on backend services in Cat Digital platform
• Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision
• 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 around delivering business value 
• Mentors and assists software engineers, providing technical assistance and direction as needed 
• Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits 
• Proactively reaches out for help when stuck on an issue after doing reasonable independent research 
• Maintains a sense of urgency when working on tasks and actively followup on any dependencies or blockers

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related field is required w/ 8 years’ experience needed
• Masters degree with 6 years’ experience

• 8 years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java. *
• Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale. 
• Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases. 
• Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc. 
• Deploying software using CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GoCD, etc 
• Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure. 
• Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum) 
• Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following
• Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ.
• Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs 
• Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible 
• Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development. 
• Hands on experience with testing tools such as Cucumber and Selenium and their integration into CI/CD pipelines. 
• Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle. 
• Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc o Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms