***1 SUB SLOT IN BEELINE***
Local candidates only
Will accept level ll-IV candidates as long as rate is aligned.
Prescreening Questions:
These are optional- will be asked in interview if not provided with resume
- What is your experience with pair programming? Do you like it?
- How often do you refactor?
Business Overview:
Java/Groovy Developer IV
Pricing Team Responsible for all pricing under Dotcom
Project Description:
In this role, they will be a critical member of the team building the foundation for Best Buy's next generation web platform. They will support and extend running applications & assist in the design and development of new applications. They will be expected to evaluate and refactor in a rapid manner for every part of our infrastructure. Overall knowledge of designing an application to run on a scalable platform is expected. You will be working in an agile environment which means test-driven development and pair programming. We are evolving towards a dev/ops model, with our development teams engaged in monitoring, optimizing and supporting our production environments. We have many projects running in parallel including Cloud technologies, Infrastructure automation, and SOA REST based web applications.
Position Summary/Job Description:
Responsibilities/Deliverables that the resource will be responsible for:
Developing Groovy/Spring web applications
Aggressive refactoring
Object Oriented Programming and Service Oriented Architecture design along with REST
Help build large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures
Able to participate in the planning process: take high level design discussions and create user stories, then further break those stories into tasks.
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?
Must Have Skills:
Strong Spring/Java/Groovy applications and unit-testing skills (Spock in particular)
Experience in developing/consuming REST/HTTP based Services
Experience with paired programming and iterative development
Strong social and communication skills
Takes initiative, self-starter. Able to identify work that needs to be done on their own.
What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?
Must-Have:
Team oriented focus
Production support
Object-oriented programming and experience with working knowledge of common Design Patterns
Nice to have skills:
Experience as a Technical Lead on a large application development project
Experience working in a Continuous Integration environment
Experience with functional testing frameworks
Experience with Akka or kafka-streams.
Test-Driven Development
Experience with a Message Queuing technology (e.g., Rabbit/IBM/JMS/AMPQ)
High comfort level with Unix/Linux command line
Preferred at least 5+ years of experience.
Experience writing applications interacting with Kafkawn.
Interview Process Overview:
90 min in person interview with Hacker Rank
Required Skills : Java