Application Developer

Application Developer – Senior12 months contractPlano, TXRole SnapshotTop Skills Required: Requires 8+ years of experience in developing Java applications. Requires 5+ years of experience in developing backend web applications. Expert in Java (11+) programming language, Spring Framework & Libraries, and Spock Unit testing Very good understanding of Cassandra database for large volumes of data. Good understanding of Cassandra table design and query patterns Very good understanding of Apache Kafka for asynchronous message processing Proven development experience supporting large volume, low latency transactions Good knowledge of Azure Cloud environments, Kubernetes, Docker, GitJob DescriptionSr. Application Developer works with product Managers/Owners to define the scope of the PI features and estimate the T-Shirt size for level of effort. Works with App architects and Engineering leads in the solution for feature implementation. Sr. Application Developer works with Application clients and external teams like infra, devops, SRE, Tier 1/2 support for dependencies in feature delivery and maintenance and support of the microservices owned by the team. Sr. Application Developer develops code to implement new features to support application clients. This includes development of new microservices, database tables to store data, caching of data to improve performance of applications and APIs, messaging systems for interactions between applications, etc. The developer also implements unit tests and functional tests to ensure high quality code is delivered. Sr. Application Developer works with release management for the release of the microservices owned by the development team. The activities include creating release pipelines, deploying release candidates in non-production environments, testing the application functionalities, co-ordinating release activities with devops, infra and support team. Sr. Application Developer provides the communications to management and stake holders regarding the various initiatives that the development team is working on, solution design and implementation details for various features in Java applications.