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As a Software Developer, you'll be a contributor on a Scrum/DevOps team focused on analyzing, developing, testing, and supporting highly complex application software.
Responsibilities:
- Build scalable, reliable, cost-effective solutions for both the Cloud and on-premises.
- Easily comprehend and convert business requirements to technical solutions.
- Understand current technologies and have experience with legacy technologies.
- Write technical documentation to support analysis and design recommendations and drafts.
- Build and test software code in current technologies and legacy applications.
- Understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.
- Build platform reusable code and components that could be used by multiple project teams.
- Provide cloud integration development support to various project teams.
- Maintain and document standards, best practices, and design/architecture patterns.
- Work as an individual contributor.
- Provide support to internal users and support staff.
- Assess incident resolution and estimate application changes.
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 3 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD without experience; or equivalent work experience.
- Strong verbal/written communication skills.
- Strong analytical and technical skills in troubleshooting and problem resolution.
- Experience in software development using programming languages & tools/services: Java, Python, and strong in SQL.
- Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux OS, commands, shell scripting, and Python.
- Strong knowledge in AWS S3, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
Other desired skill sets:
- Airflow, Gitlab, Parquet File processing.
- Agile scrum experience in application development is required.
- Deployment and automation: Terraform, Cloud Formation would be a plus.
- Strong knowledge in Gitlab /Bitbucket.
- Legacy technology such as Struts is a plus.
- Strong knowledge in Compute: EC2, EMR, AWS Lamda is a Plus.
- AWS Certification is a plus.
- Frontend Technology Skills Set: JavaScript, Grails, SQL, and shell scripting experience.
- Backend Technology Skills Set: AWS and/or Oracle Cloud experience, Java, ETL Tools (Informatica, Talend, ODI), Strong SQL knowledge, Python, Scripting.
- Big Data Skills Set (3-5 years): Spark Scala, Spark SQL, AWS Cloud (EC2, S3).