React Developer

Job Role - Frontend Developer

Hybrid - Seattle WA

Contract - W2

Job description

GEC technology for a new scrum team (Digital Educator Foundations).

Day in life:

• Analyzes, designs, develops, implements, documents, and maintains applications systems, working on moderately complex to highly complex work tasks or project assignments.
• Gathers, analyzes, and translates business and non-functional requirements into a solution design. May lead meetings to define business requirements and technical solutions. Executes tasks, estimates resources, establishes timelines, and prioritizes work.
• Designs, develops specifications, and maintains application code in accordance with the current development and project management methodologies and practices.
• Manages work assignments according to current project methodologies or as directed.
• Consults with Quality Assurance and Business Analysts in the development and execution of test plans.
• Provides technical assistance and problem resolution for assigned systems, lead resolution of production support problems in accordance with problem management policies/procedures. Coordinate with vendors for problem resolution and change requests.
• Ensures that applications changes follow change management policies and procedures.
• Provides technical guidance to ensure that installed systems are working effectively and that proposed systems will meet the organization’s future needs.
• Uses algorithms, data structures, programming languages, programming paradigms to create, test and operate sustainable software applications and services.
• Identifies and provides recommendations for system process improvements.
• Ensures smooth implementation of new technologies and vendor integrations by using their expertise on their assigned domains and interfaces
• May act as a source for direction, training, and guidance for less experienced departmental staff.
• Deep understanding of development and deployment of Cloud based solutions

Qualifications:

· 5 years of experience in Java development, with a focus on microservices architecture.

· Proven experience building and deploying microservices in distributed systems.

· Strong expertise in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, or similar frameworks.

· Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs.

· Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

· Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).

· Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar containerization technologies.

· Familiarity with message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.

· Solid understanding of security best practices, OAuth, JWT, and API security.

· Proficiency in Git and Git-based workflows.

· Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).

· Experience working in an Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban).

· Familiar with retail functional knowledge