Application Developer
Java Engineer PositionIKM Screening for this position: US Bank Java Assessment When you look for the candidate please ensure you screen them for the following. Please rate them on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best. I am not expecting them to know everything but a solid engineer with most of the below items. Top 2 items are most important technical skills for us. If you provide the ratings then it will make it easier for us to quickly decide during interview and we can explain the candidate about the project and provide opportunity for the candidate to ask any questions. Top 5 things: Core Java with 1.8 features (lambdas, streams, collections) Spring Boot eco system – services, controllers, security, aop, transactions. Design & Development approach - TDD, Junit, Code coverage and good code quality, Understand common patterns DevOps, Operations & trouble shooting – Understand Microservice deployment to any cloud, Maven, Jenkins Splunk, logs checking, Linux commands (We have the pipelines created by DevOps team but we want them to be able to deploy using the existing pipelines) Soft skills – communication, team work, agile experience Project Details: Fed now – Developing for the payment industry, enterprise money movement. Deploying to the internal cloud. This is a new project but will use existing code, existing libraries, design patterns already created. Project Scope / Components: Building a system that communicates with government agencies that sends and receives tax records Another system that communicates with the central clearance system (federal gov system) Being developed for enabling real time payments (RTP) – like Zelle
Position Details
Client: US Bank
Role: Java Engineer
Duration: 6mo contract30-minute final interview with manager
Necessary skills/experience:8+ years of development experience o Will consider 5+ years if senior-level still Hands-on development (not just architecture/etc.)Knowledge in Agile Methodologies and experience of working in agile projects Understand design patterns and ability to pick up quickly Basics of DevOps o Environment and most pipelines already built but need to understand how to deploy within etc. Technical experience needed: Experience in Core Java, preferably version 1.8 or higherREST APIs and Microservices, knowledge of JSON (Java Script Object Notation) handling Spring or Springboot o Services, controllers, AOPs, security DevOps o Experience in DevOps processes, CI/CD (Continuous Development/Continuous Integration) pipeline development and orchestration o Experience with GitHub or GitLab o Build tools like Apache Maven, Jenkins o Basic cloud knowledge (not focused on a particular cloud – will be internal cloud)
Nice to haves:
- Knowledge of Kafka or other asynchronous technologies (MQ)
- Cassandra or any other any NoSQL database experience (MongoDB, Orient DB, CouchDB etc.)GraphQLCaching experience
- Experience with tools like Splunk, AppDynamics, Kibana