Senior Java Developer

Senior Java DeveloperComtech LLC is a woman-owned small business focused on delivering end-to-end solutions and products. Since 1998, we have successfully serviced enterprises across the public and private sectors, and the Department of Defense. Our services span all aspects of business, providing a holistic approach for managing an organization.Job DescriptionJob Title: Senior / Architect Java Developer Location: Seattle, WA Duration: Full-timeClient's Marketplace technology manages massive amounts of data through the online sales lifecycle, disrupting traditional notions of retail marketplace and connecting millions of businesses, big and small, to millions of Customers within the Client.com marketplace. The software built by the Marketplace Technology Team:Serves millions of sellers globally solving for complex local country regulationsIntegrates millions of nodes of product catalog data into Merchant Web Services and Seller CentralServes up unique product types, each with thousands of attributes subject to thousands of business constraints presented by globally regional complexity, millions of times per day while providing latencies so minimal that access appears to be localEnsures customer trust processing orders through secure and trusted payment services and delivering this data back to Sellers to complete the sales cycle.Allows sellers to fulfill hundreds of millions of orders per year, while ensuring a high quality customer experience.Sellers on Client vary from individuals, who manually manage their businesses, to high-volume enterprises with IT staff that wish to develop real-time machine-to-machine software integration between their backend systems and Client. Client's Marketplace Technologies provide a secure and safe platform to enable commerce. The systems, applications and APIs that support Sellers on Client operate at massive scale, must be highly available, and work on increasingly diverse and distributed devices securely.In this role, you will:Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.Design, architect, and improve major application software and user experience solutions on emerging platforms, Java, and LinuxBe responsible for software architecture including determination of current limitations and compatibilities between subsystems, selection of new concepts and methodology, and development of major routines and utilitiesProvide technical leadership in evaluating, understanding and integrating various software solutionsFully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.Prepare technical requirements, software design specifications and other forms of architectural documentationAssist in the career development of technical colleagues, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team membersDeliver high quality work on tight schedulesDemonstrate strong analytical and problem solving skills to help the team resolve issues under time pressureHave a strong bias for action with the right balance of analytical thinkingThe ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder and operator. He/she should have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts and/or IT projects and initiatives. The leader needs to balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices. While constantly striving for simplicity, the senior engineer must demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment.Basic Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field. 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a proven track record of leading large-scale projects . Ability to work highly autonomously, and rapidly understand system architecture, and propose improvements Broad knowledge of Java, Linux, SOA, operating system principles, and programming best practices. Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices Experience mentoring/training an engineering community on complex technical issues Excellent judgment, organizational and problem solving skillsPreferred Qualifications: Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field Experience with NoSQL databases, EC2, and other AWS services Experience in building high-performance, highly-available and scalable distributed systems