What are the responsibilities and job description for the Java Developer position at Spruce Technology, Inc.?
Job Overview:
We are seeking an experience backend engineer to join our Middle Office Core Platform Organization. This team owns systems, services and initiatives to provide financial products to our customers across digital channels. This organization is responsible for building financial products, platform capabilities and components that are used by millions of customers daily.
As a backend engineer, you will be working in Middle Office Core Platform Organization to drive product development and modernization initiatives. You are builder and have deep understanding of tools and technologies to build products that delivers business outcomes and obsess about customer. You will be responsible for designing and programming a small module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features.
Essential Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:
* Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding
* Work closely with your peers and keep engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team
* Execute in a fast-paced delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal
* Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
* Understand whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module
* Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
* Possess advanced domain knowledge and show great customer focus. Expert in processes / methodologies and Skilled in build, release & deployment processes
* Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
* Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
Basic Qualifications:
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
* 7-15 years of relevant professional experience or 5 years with master's or 2 years with PhD
Desired Characteristics:
Technical Expertise:
* Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and coding principles
* Hands-on experience in microservices architecture and development, Databases such as Oracle MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL etc.
* 7 - 15 years' experience in Java
* Preferred experience in ServiceMesh, Containers and Kubernetes technologies
* Preferred hands-on experience in building cloud-based software leveraging cloud and open-source technology and frameworks
* Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
* Experience in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices
* Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and can implement them using language of choice
* Preferred understanding and experience in one of the public clouds (AWS, Azure) native services
* Experience in agile software development
Business Acumen:
* Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
* Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective
Leadership:
* Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
* Proactively identifies and address customer issues in product
* Shares knowledge, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill
Personal Attributes:
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
* Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
* Open to take new responsibility, learn new technologies or systems to deliver business value
C and Golang is a plus
Spruce Technology, Inc. is a mid-size, award-winning (Inc 5000, SmartCEO, Entrepreneur of the Year) technology services firm with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients. Spruce provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT strategy consulting nationwide. Spruce maintains partnerships with major technology vendors and continually develops leading-edge offerings in service areas such as digital experience, data services, application development, infrastructure, cyber security, and IT staffing.
Spruce Technology, Inc. is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is the policy of Spruce Technology, Inc. to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process.
All full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits:
Medical, dental, vision health benefits
Life Insurance and AD&D (paid by company)
401k, Flexible and Dependent Care Spending Account plans.
Paid-time Off or Paid Sick Leave (amount dependent on position level and if required by state).
We are seeking an experience backend engineer to join our Middle Office Core Platform Organization. This team owns systems, services and initiatives to provide financial products to our customers across digital channels. This organization is responsible for building financial products, platform capabilities and components that are used by millions of customers daily.
As a backend engineer, you will be working in Middle Office Core Platform Organization to drive product development and modernization initiatives. You are builder and have deep understanding of tools and technologies to build products that delivers business outcomes and obsess about customer. You will be responsible for designing and programming a small module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features.
Essential Responsibilities:
In this role, you will:
* Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding
* Work closely with your peers and keep engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team
* Execute in a fast-paced delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal
* Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation
* Understand whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module
* Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
* Possess advanced domain knowledge and show great customer focus. Expert in processes / methodologies and Skilled in build, release & deployment processes
* Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
* Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
Basic Qualifications:
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
* 7-15 years of relevant professional experience or 5 years with master's or 2 years with PhD
Desired Characteristics:
Technical Expertise:
* Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and coding principles
* Hands-on experience in microservices architecture and development, Databases such as Oracle MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL etc.
* 7 - 15 years' experience in Java
* Preferred experience in ServiceMesh, Containers and Kubernetes technologies
* Preferred hands-on experience in building cloud-based software leveraging cloud and open-source technology and frameworks
* Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems
* Experience in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices
* Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and can implement them using language of choice
* Preferred understanding and experience in one of the public clouds (AWS, Azure) native services
* Experience in agile software development
Business Acumen:
* Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
* Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective
Leadership:
* Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
* Proactively identifies and address customer issues in product
* Shares knowledge, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill
Personal Attributes:
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
* Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
* Open to take new responsibility, learn new technologies or systems to deliver business value
C and Golang is a plus
Spruce Technology, Inc. is a mid-size, award-winning (Inc 5000, SmartCEO, Entrepreneur of the Year) technology services firm with a steadily growing portfolio of commercial and government clients. Spruce provides innovative technology solutions, specialized IT staff, and IT strategy consulting nationwide. Spruce maintains partnerships with major technology vendors and continually develops leading-edge offerings in service areas such as digital experience, data services, application development, infrastructure, cyber security, and IT staffing.
Spruce Technology, Inc. is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act, it is the policy of Spruce Technology, Inc. to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process.
All full-time employees are eligible for the following benefits:
Medical, dental, vision health benefits
Life Insurance and AD&D (paid by company)
401k, Flexible and Dependent Care Spending Account plans.
Paid-time Off or Paid Sick Leave (amount dependent on position level and if required by state).
Salary : $47 - $89
