Senior Engineer Backend-Developer

Title: Senior Engineer (Backend-Developer)

Location: Austin, TX - Hybrid

Duration: 12 months contract with possible extension

Job Description:

• Must-Have: 6 or more years' experience with Java 8 or higher; 1-3 years of Kafka; and IntelliJ IDE are also required.
• Hands on experience with design and development of highly available, distributed, and scalable enterprise systems.
• Strong Java8 background with deep knowledge on Spring frameworks, MongoDB, OWASP and Microservices architecture.
• Experience and strong knowledge in developing high throughput, high performance, and zero downtime systems.
• Experience in performance tuning of the applications including JVM tuning, memory profiling, deadlocks, and heap analysis.
• Strong knowledge of customer facing web application development, HTTP specs, Load- balancing and understanding of CDN.
• Experience with Java test frameworks such as JUnit and test NG and Familiarity with automated testing methodologies and frameworks.
• Familiarity with template driven rendering and client and server side MVC architectures Familiarity with Splunk for investigating or monitoring problems on systems.
• Thorough understanding of Software Development Lifecycle, tools and agile methodologies.
• Working knowledge of source control software (SVN or Git), build and deployment tools (Maven, Gradle)
• Sharp troubleshooting skills and real-world systems deployment experience.