Java Software Engineer

Role: Java Developer

Location: Remote / Brazil

Duration: 12 Months

Primary Skills: Java Full Stack Developer with React.js expertise

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:

• Experience in design and development of distributed high-availability and reliable web applications built using Java/J2EE technologies.
• Design, develop, and maintain user facing features using React, ensuring responsive, reusable, and performant UI components
• Collaborate closely with UX designers, product owners, and backend/front end engineers to deliver end to end features
• Experience with Microservices utilizing Spring Boot/Spring MVC in multi-threaded, distributed environment.
• Cross collaboration with different teams to enhance applications from legacy components to latest updated frameworks/architectures and design patterns.
• Manage application source code with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Adhere to security directives and enable security concepts in application lifecycle – implement shift-left concepts, vulnerability remediation processes and minimize overall risk for the enterprise solutions.
• Competent to perform all programming, project management, and development assignments without close supervision.
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drives application development focused around delivering valuable business features.
• Maintain high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and coding guidelines.
• Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Communicate with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and closure.
• Performs integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of components that require careful planning and execution to ensure timely and quality output.

Required skills:

• More than 8 years of application development experience in Core Java, Spring Boot, Spring Security, Hibernate/Spring Data JPA, Spring WebFlux.
• Experience with design, analysis, programming, integration, debugging, testing, and implementation activities to deliver software solutions to business.
• Experience in developing web-based applications using JavaScript, HTML, CSS, React/Angular frameworks.
• Experience in identifying technical problems and recommending options to address them.
• Experience with architecture and design of large-scale systems with focus on performance, scalability, high-availability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Experience of developing applications with event driven architecture using Kafka, SQS, Pub/Sub models
• Experience using AI tools like Microsoft Copilot for software development and testing. Understanding and experience in using AI/GenAI for automation.
• Experience with developing applications using Microservices containerized based architectures (Docker/Kubernetes) and design patterns.
• Ability to quickly learn modern technologies and apply them with an enterprise perspective.
• A strength in source code management strategies using Git and other popular tools.
• Experience with GitLab, GitHub or Azure Repos.
• Experience in application unit testing using Junit, Mockito, Bruno etc.
• Experience in optimizing and improvising the application performance using cache mechanisms and other possible solutions.
• Experience with security concepts implementation in application development and deployment on Cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Experience with vulnerability remediation and ability to automate security measures in application development.
• Experience with DevOps/security tools – Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, JFrog Artifactory etc.
• An understanding of modern web development security threats and security best practices.
• Familiarity with two or more Databases – DB2, PostgreSQL etc.
• Basic understanding of networking concepts as it pertains to Java/J2EE hosting (Load balancing, DNS, HTTP, SSL/TLS, etc.).

Desired Skills:

• Experience using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology.
• Hands-on experience with React (functional components, hooks, state management) and modern JavaScript (ES6+)
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs, including request/response handling and error management
• Solid understanding of HTML5, CSS3, responsive design, and frontend performance best practices
• Experience working with corporate security on infrastructure or applications security compliance and remediation activities (Risk Acceptance, Security Configuration Baseline)
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in identifying security policies for cloud infrastructure (Azure or AWS).
• Experience with implementing SonarQube, CodeQL, Artifactory/XRay, Fortify tools.