What are the responsibilities and job description for the Full Stack Java Developer position at POLARIS Laboratories?
PLEASE NOTE THAT CANDIDATES MUST RESIDE WITHIN A 50-MILE RADIUS OF THE POLARIS FACILITY IN INDIANAPOLIS TO BE CONSIDERED.
As a Full Stack Java Developer, you would work full-time as a developer on our POLARIS Laboratories Application Engineering team building and supporting Java & JavaScript applications. Our application engineering team develops and maintains internal and customer-facing applications and services which deliver our company's products-reliability information-to our customers. We are a small team with a strong team culture working in a fast-paced enterprise-level environment. We are in a long-term digital transformation with tons of interesting data-rich business features and technical problems to solve. In this role you would develop applications to solve those problems and serve our customers.
The Kind of Person We're Looking For
As an ideal candidate for this position, you should have significant experience developing web applications with Java. You can write UIs, utilizing Apache Wicket & Velocity. You can craft a SQL string to solve a data model problem or learn how to do it. Always open to learning more, you quickly accept and share valuable feedback with fairness and work towards consensus. You enjoy tackling hard problems or improving existing things. You leave things better than you found them. You enjoy working collaboratively with others and communicating clearly and effectively.
More than anything else, as an ideal candidate, you are honest and reliable with a passion for solving technical problems and enjoy working on a team with solid engineering processes.
What You Will Do
- Deliver code to implement business features, fix identified issues, or improve the software.
- Write unit and integration tests.
- Follow team coding workflow to deliver code, issue pull requests, participate in code reviews, and deploy code to target environments.
- Triage problems in deployed environments.
- Participate in Agile-Scrum project workflow and team rhythms : working through Jira ticket system, daily standups, regular backlog grooming, sprint retrospectives, demos, and planning.
- Report to a developer-supervisor.
The Training, Skills or Experience You Should Have
Note : If you possess experience in other programming languages but no Java experience; or experience building only static websites, you will not be considered for this role. Also, this is not a fully remote position and if you are not in the Indianapolis area, you will not be considered for this role.
About Our Application Engineering Team and Technical Stack
Keywords
Java engineer, software engineering, software developer, Java development, front-end developer, full-stack development, application developer, application development, web developer, UI / UX.
