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Early Warning® · 1 day ago

Sr. Software Engineer - Java / AWS (Contract)

New York City

Full-time, Contract

Hybrid

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Early Warning is a company that has powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with innovative solutions. They are seeking a Sr. Software Engineer to design, develop, test, and maintain software product applications, serving as a technical expert throughout the development life cycle.

Financial ServicesFraud DetectionPaymentsRisk Management

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design, develop, document, test, and debug new and existing software systems and applications

Serve as technical expert on development projects

Drives full development life cycle including requirements analysis and design

Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements

Support, maintain, and document software functionality

Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation

Analyze code to find causes of errors and revise programs as needed

Drive software design meetings and analyze user needs to determine technical requirements

Consult with end user to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs

Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and availability is maintained

Qualification

JavaAWS Cloud servicesMicroservicesREST APISQLAgile methodologiesAutomated testingUnix/LinuxTDD/BDDUMLNetworking protocolsTroubleshooting

Required

Design, develop, document, test, and debug new and existing software systems and applications

Serve as technical expert on development projects

Drives full development life cycle including requirements analysis and design

Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements

Support, maintain, and document software functionality

Identify and evaluate new technologies for implementation

Analyze code to find causes of errors and revise programs as needed

Drive software design meetings and analyze user needs to determine technical requirements

Consult with end user to prototype, refine, test, and debug programs to meet needs

Complies with all security policies and procedures, to ensure that the highest level of system and data confidentiality, integrity and availability is maintained

Ability to use Unix/Linux command line programs and create/edit scripts

Able to analyze results of automated deployment scripts and makes modifications

Able to prepare detail design documents from requirements

Familiar with Reporting tools such as Crystal Reports, Jasper Reports, BIRT, etc

General understanding of software environments and network topologies

Able to demonstrate OOA/OOD skills

Demonstrable understanding of distributed, component based architecture

Working knowledge of networking and/or telecommunications protocols

A solid understanding of event driven / asynchronous programming and multi-threading

Demonstrable technical design skills (UML experience a plus)

Familiar with TDD/BDD

Familiar with SOA framework, web services, etc

Competent (5+ years) Java or C# or C++ or Objective-C language programming skills

Competent with SQL or PL/SQL and relational database concepts

Experience with source code control systems

Experience with secure programming techniques is highly desirable

Able to perform code reviews to ensure the code meets the acceptance criteria

Able to maintain test scripts as needed

Prepares test strategy, test plan, test cases, and test summary documents

Experience with automated functional software testing frameworks, such as Cucumber, Selenium, etc

Performs unit, functional, load, user interface, performance, regression and system integration testing on new code or modified code prior to production releases

Produce and report project test metrics

Possess advanced knowledge of QA/QC techniques; certifications preferred

Assists new staff on testing techniques and test methodologies

Responsible for responding to situations in a timely manner, and meeting predetermined deadlines

Ability to support/maintain existing products and add new features as requested by customers

Central point of contact for support of UAT/production applications as needed

Keen troubleshooting skills across tiers/domains

Ability to work on multiple projects

Agile/Lean methodologies experience

Solid understanding of an iterative software development process

Able to guide the team to produce estimates for all project activities and tasks

Responsible for eliciting user and functional requirements and ensuring they consistent and complete

Mentor and monitor Software Engineers in the technical aspects of their assignments

Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and/or 5 or more years of related industry experience

Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, REST API experience

Direct experience with AWS Cloud services (i.e. Lamba, Dynamo DB, SQS, etc.)