Java Developer

Consumer Authentication Solutions ProgramThis is a 12 month plus extensions engagement with our client in St Louis, MO - Candidates must be open to relocate to St Louis in 2-3 months.The Consumer Authentication Solutions program is part of Identity Solutions. Our mission is to develop identity verification and fraud prevention services to protect the integrity of the digital payment channels, provide a frictionless user experience, reduce cart abandonments and increase approval rates.This position reports to the Director of Software Engineering, Identity Solutions.RoleWork with business/product owners to develop and deliver on new and enhanced servicesDrive the application design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policiesParticipate in team prioritization discussions with Product/Business stakeholdersEstimate and own delivery tasks (design, dev, test, deployment, configuration, documentation) to meet business requirementsDrive integration of services focusing on customer journey and experienceSimplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategyAutomate build, operate, and run aspects of Smart InterfaceAll About YouHas the ability to write secure code in multiple languages (e.g., Java, JavaScript, C#) and familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability managementHas skills in building applications using open frameworks to achieve reuse and reduce development times (e.g., Spring Boot, Angular, others)Understands internals of operating systems (Windows, Linux) to write interoperable and performant codeUnderstands internals of Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and Cloud platforms and toolsHas skills to undertake infrastructure and deployment automation using industry-standard tooling (e.g., Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, Terraform, Ansible)Familiar with the adoption of standard logging frameworks and tools (e.g., log4j, Splunk) to aggregate and analyze time-series of logsHas skills to build monitoring and alerting focusing on key signals (resource usage, threshold breaches, rate of change) by using industry-standard tools (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace)Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errorsUnderstands software development productivity metrics (e.g., code churn, commit size, commits/story) and help teams to remove blockers and continuously improve code velocity, quality, and release frequencyUnderstands Platform-as-a-Service to build applications that run on standardized application platforms and deploy specifications, e.g., Web and application servers, API Gateways, Database Services, and Load balancersHas skills to engage engineers across Technology organization to promote standard software patterns and reuse of common libraries and servicesHas skills to succinctly articulate architecture patterns of complex systems, with business and technical implications, to executive and customer stakeholders Leverages understanding of DevOps best practices to guide developers and abstract application development from underlying hosting platforms and infrastructure