Microservices Software Engineer

Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency, is seeking a Microservices Software Engineer to join our Client's team.

JOB SUMMARY

The Software Engineer will help support and build the Modernized Microservices Applications Suite. Along with writing effective code, the position will be responsible for designing, building, delivering, and maintaining a highly scalable set of products and applications. The incumbent will use industry best practices and work collaboratively with a cross-functional team of product managers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers, test automation team, and DevOps engineers

How you will make an impact:

• Design, develop, test and maintain microservices to support our consumer-facing applications.
• Write highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance. Use TDD and participate in code-reviews with other software engineers.
• Collaborate with the DevOps team to set up the build and delivery pipeline. Add instrumentation and monitoring to support production environments. Build Docker containers and container management.
• Accurately scope effort, identify risks, and clearly communicate trade-offs with team members and other stakeholders.
• Ship high-quality products and features with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments, and monitoring of production health.

What we look for:

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• 5 - 7 years of experience designing and developing secure object-oriented web services.
• Experience with all phases of software development. You have been there and done it, multiple times. You have strong experience in Java and Restful API Development. Also experience in spring boot is required.
• Experience with developing microservices is highly desired.
• Some familiarity with exposing and securing APIs using an API management solution.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Test Driven Development, unit testing, and knowledge of mocking frameworks such as EasyMock and Mockito.
• Developing and deploying applications on AWS, Azure, or a private cloud.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills. Great business acumen with a passion for solving customers' problems.
• Some experience in at least a few of the following technologies in the categories below:
• Spring Framework; Spring Boot.
• Web Services: Spring, Jersey, Apache CXF, RESTEasy, Restlet
• Databases: Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.
• Distributed Cache: Redis, Coherence, Hazelcast
• Build & CI Tools: Maven, Jenkins, Gradle, etc.
• Search & AI: Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, Natural Language Processing libraries (Stanford, Apache).
• Message Brokers: Apache Kafka, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Performs as a key contributor to an engineering team that builds and supports exceptional products that provide innovative solutions to challenging business use cases, existing system and operational problems
• Participates in architectural design, system analysis, and programming activities on application software; this may often require independent research and study
• Develops high-quality and production-ready software by using best-practice data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and frameworks that are maintainable, scalable, responsive, and secure
• Writes highest quality code with utmost attention to scalability, security and performance and with an end-to-end mindset from conception to delivery and production support, owning specifications, quality, release deployments, and monitoring of production health.
• Produces complete, simple, and readable technical documentation for everything developed and maintains a team culture of documenting everything
• Tests and ensures the quality of all code that is developed in line with the principles of test-driven development and continuous delivery, utilizing test automation frameworks wherever possible
• Participates in code reviews, provides technical guidance, and mentors software engineers
• Collaborates closely with Engineering leadership, Product Managers, Designers, Test Automation, and other teams and business units to define, prioritize, sequence, and scope business and functional requirements and drive results.
• Instruments, infrastructure, and application performance monitoring, capacity management, alerting, tools instrumentation, and metrics (KPI) management
• Performs impact assessment of product (hardware, software) upgrades
• Assists in planning, coordinating, and executing engineering projects
• Supports and collaborates with other Engineers through evaluation, design analysis, and development phases
• Maintains knowledge, ensures competency, and compliance with policies and procedures, in order to be the technical expert while collaborating with cross-functional teams
• This list is not all-inclusive, and you are expected to perform other duties as requested or assigned

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Ability to understand business plans and apply that information to the development of an IT business case
• Anticipates problems, resistance, or likely objections and takes action to resolve them
• Ability to guide, train, and mentor associate engineers
• Highly skilled in developing quantitative cost/benefit analysis to measure improvements
• Proficient in organizational processes as well as capable of assessing and initiating change in such processes
• Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and application of competency and can consult as well as lead others in its application
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies
• Ability to develop and maintain key vendor relationships with a focus on technology currency and best practices
• Life-long learner, process improver

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Education and Experience

• 4 w/Bachelors degree

Additional Experience and Education

• Experience designing and developing highly scalable and secure Applications and Products
• BS in computer science or equivalent technical field or equivalent work experience.
• MS is a plus.
• Experience with developing and deploying applications on Azure or a similar cloud platform

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

EOE of Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabilities