Senior Java Developer

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Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design, architecture, and development of Server-Side REST APIs that are elegant, efficient, secure, highly available, and maintainable
• Works closely with other developers and end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction
• Contribute insights into ways to improve our processes and tools
• Be highly motivated and maintain a positive, "can-do" attitude in a fast-moving environment
• Follow and help cultivate consistent development best practices
• Collaborates with project manager and other software developers to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain the applications and APIs
• Provides thought-leadership regarding implementation best practices
• Assists in estimation and assessment of feasibility of features
• Foster a collaborative spirit across multiple teams

Relevant experience and skills

• Building server-side applications
• Writing code
• Refactoring code
• Deleting code
• Build tools
• Continuous Integration
• Fixing bugs
• Asynchronous code
• Performance Analysis and Optimization
• Legacy Code
• Unit tests
• Open Source
• Working in a team
• Self-starting
• Integrating with bespoke lovingly hand-crafted backend services from the days of yore
• Designing solutions for open ended problems
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience

Top Skills:

• Strong experience with REST API's both building and consuming
• Strong experience working with Service level architecture at the enterprise level- ideally a fintech or payments organization (Java, Gradle, Graph QL - Kotlin is a plus and/or an eagerness to learn)
• Strong experience collaborating with others teams, working across globally dispersed teams- much of the job is collaborating with other teams that own the APIs you need to build off of
• Passion for not just back end but how your work impacts the user experience of the application- has worked closely with product and UI teams

Relevant technologies that you may encounter:

• Kotlin
• Gradle
• REST
• GraphQL
• Java