What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Java Developer position at Excella?
Overview
Software developers at Excella are consultants and thought leaders with great business and technology skills. We're delivering game changing products and applications for commercial and government clients. Our specialty areas allow you to choose and focus on your primary technical area, while providing the flexibility to move around depending on client need and your desires. We usually code in Ruby, C#, Python, Java, or JavaScript. We love polyglot developers!
Responsibilities
- Use your passion to build cutting edge solutions to solve problems with the right technologies.
- Employ the values and principles of Agile development on small teams.
- Support quality development practices and pursue new and better ways to build software.
- Understand and follow emerging design to appropriately meet the business needs of our clients.
- Actively participate in improving the code base by performing code reviews.
- Reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of all communities: open source, Agile, programming, etc.
- Continuously improve and don't be content with the status quo. Code can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, and higher in quality.
Qualifications
Join us to work on small Agile teams and use your passion to build game changing web and mobile products for commercial and government clients in the DC metro area. We are currently looking for full stack Java developers that are excited to be part of a team. Qualifications include:
- 4 years of web development experience and a 4 year college degree.
- Web development experience in Java and/or Groovy, Scala, Clojure, etc.
- Full stack development using the Spring Framework.
- Strong database skills with MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
- Cloud – we work on GitHub, Heroku, AWS, Azure.
- DevOps and Continuous Delivery tools – Jenkins/TeamCity, Vagrant, Puppet/Chef/etc.
- Experience with REST and/or SOAP based APIs consumption and creation.
- Experience working with HTML5, CSS3, ERB, SCSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
- Build automation with Gradle or Maven.
- Automated testing with Cucumber, JUnit, Selenium, etc.
- Design skills with experience in object-oriented methodologies, design patterns, database design, and data modeling.
- Understanding of DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) and the capabilities within the DORA capability catalog is encouraged.
