Lead Java Full Stack (React)

Position: Java FullStack Developer (React)

Location: 55 Water Street, NY/Princeton, NJ (Hybrid) 

Duration: 6 Months Contract to Hire

As a key member of the application development team, this individual will be responsible for leading the technical development and support for internal web applications supporting our Rating business.

Key Accountabilities:

• Deliver business value through application development and enhancements.
• Guide the development team through the process of design, developing, and unit testing.
• Interface with database development team, infrastructure, web developers, and other teams as needed.
• Interface and communicate effectively with business partners.
• Evaluate, assess, plan, and guide technical direction and architecture decisions.
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership and responsibility with assignments. This includes gathering and understanding requirements, technical specifications, design, architecture, implementation, unit testing, builds/deployments, and code management.
• Collaborate with onsite and offsite team members effectively.
• Should independently drive and execute complex technical requirements.
• Be an enthusiastic mentor to development team.
• Be a self-starter that is also an excellent team player.

Core Skills:

• 9+ years in Java J2EE building web applications.
• 5+ years of experience with related frameworks and technologies (Hibernate, Restful services Spring JDBC, MVC etc.)
• Strong experience with Microservices, Spring Boot / Spring framework, Rest API, JPA.
• 8+ years of experience in web development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript including ES2016+
• Minimum 2 years of experience of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Redux and Flux
• Experience with user interface design
• Knowledge of unit testing frameworks like Mocha and Jest
• Experience with browser based debugging and excellent troubleshooting skills
• Significant knowledge of Oracle PL/SQL and SQL.
• Experience with Oracle Web logic, Tomcat to include installation, configuration, troubleshooting.
• Experience with API management and Cloud-based platforms and services (AWS, Google).
• Working knowledge of Dev-Ops: Git, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, etc.
• Understanding of Test-Driven Development practices as well as Automation and Unit Testing.
• Strong Analytical Skills.
• Experience Architecting and developing large scale Enterprise applications.
• Proficient with software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies like Agile, Test- driven development.
• Any experience in building applications for financial industry is a plus

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Candidates without Computer Science or Information Technology degree should have significant work experience.