Java Developer

***Only qualified Software Development Engineer located near O'Fallon MO to be considered due to the position requiring a hybrid presence. ***

Education:
" Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Required Skills, Experience, & Abilities:
" Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of management
" Ability to build rapport and relationships
" Someone understanding the concept of operations first, focusing on usability, operability of applications from the get-go.
" Problem solver and solution-seeking approach
" Hands on experience in building complex and highly scalable and performing systems
" Solid understanding and hands-on experience in Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Kafka, RESTful web services and JPA
" You have experience in building AI assisted application, autonomous and semi-autonomous agents and agentic workflow systems that coordinate multi-step tasks.
" Strong belief in continuous refactoring and adhering to S.O.L.I.D design principles.
" Exposure to building cloud ready applications (microservices)
" Practitioner of Test Driven Development
" Exposure to Continuous Delivery and Integration
" Team player
" Agile Scrum experience
" Agentic software development
" Production support and platform optimization

Role:
The Software Development Engineer is a hands-on developer specializing in Java development with a particular focus producing micro services that then integrate with other services to enable high throughput, low latency financial transaction processing.

Responsibilities:
" Design components by translating product requirements, break down project into tasks and provide accurate estimates
" Independently come up with different solutions, extensible Low level design. Write modular, extensible, readable and performant code
" Choose the right Data Structures, tools and tech stacks and be able to do High Level Designing with guidance
" Research new frameworks and technologies, assist with prototyping and proof-of-concepts, participate in code reviews
" Collaborate with teams by contributing to the shared vision and working closely with cross-functional stakeholders
" You will be responsible for the components you (and or your team) build and will support them till the time they are live in production