Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines and also establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients, project team members, supervisors, and employees from other departments. You will work closely with cross functional teams to understand requirements come on architect solutions, and ensure scalability come on reliability, and security of the APIs.

Job Title: API Developer

Location: Pittsburgh, PA OR Cleveland, OH OR Dallas, TX | Onsite

Employment Type: Permanent

Duration: Full-time

Pay: $100k-$115k/yr

About VLink:

Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.

Job Description:

Are you a seasoned Java developer with a passion for building robust scalable APIs? We are seeking a talented individual like you to join our team as a API developer and play a key role in shaping the future of the platform that we are building for the clients.

As a senior API developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high performance APIs that power to the system. You will work closely with cross functional teams to understand requirements come on architect solutions, and ensure scalability come on reliability, and security of the APIs. You will have the opportunity to mentor junior developers, lead technical discussions, and drive the adoption of best practices and standards.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• At least 8+ of Java/J2EE development, hands on troubleshooting and deployment experience. (Mandatory)

• Hands on experience working with cutting edge technologies such as Spring Boot, Microservices.

• Design, maintain and implementation of API, microservices and backend components

• Work with API developers across the team to build new features at large scale

• Improve API standards and services

• Development and unit testing of Java RESTful services that integrates with external client systems

• Working Knowledge and hands on experience in DEVOPs tools like Jenkins, uDeploy and GIT

• Has knowledge of Kafka

• Hands on experience in IBM MQ.

• Strong Knowledge in SQL and No SQL

• Knowledge in any of the Cloud Technologies, such as AWS, Azure etc.

• Review Design Documents and provide feedback on approach and estimates

• Creates technical designs for new systems, and/or modifications to existing systems.

• Translates detailed requirements into functional system designs.

• Ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines and also establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients, project team members, supervisors, and employees from other departments.

• Work closely with internal and external design, business, and technical counterparts

• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work closely with diverse personality types and understand technical issues.

• Research and recommend functional libraries to expedite development

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• At least 8+ years overall experience Java/J2EE development with REST API, Spring Boot, Angular, XML, JSON, Swagger

• 8+ years of RESTful or SOAP web services

• 5+ years Angular, CSS, JavaScript, HTML

• 5+ years of GitHub, Jenkins, and CI/CD server

• Experience writing unit tests for JavaScript code.

• Experience using Agile methodologies for developing application

Skills:

• Agile

• GitHub

• HTML

• Jenkins

• JSON Web Token (JWT)

• NoSQL

• React JavaScript

• RESTful (Rest-APIs)

• Spring Boot

• Swagger

• UML (Unified ModelingLanguage)

• XPath

• Angular

• CSS
   

Benefits:

Benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:

• Competitive compensation

• Comprehensive insurance options

• Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan

• Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time

• Paid parental leave

• Learning opportunities and tuition assistance

• Wellness and Well being programs

 

Employment Practices:

VLink is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

This job application process may use AI-powered tools to assist in screening and evaluating applications based on objective, job-related qualifications. AI is used solely to support the recruitment process and all final hiring decisions are made exclusively by our human recruitment team.

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