Senior Java Developer

About the Position

ELEKS Software Development and Engineering Office is seeking a Senior Java Developer for an onsite role in Chicago, IL. Our client is building a world-class digital platform that powers a broad portfolio of enterprise applications across mobile, web, cloud, and distributed computing environments. Office attendance in downtown Chicago is required.

Responsibilities

• Competent to perform all programming and development assignments without close supervision; normally assigned the more complex aspects of systems work.
• Acts as team leader for development and support groups; provides programming and application/technical leadership, guidance, and assistance to other team members.
• Works directly on complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.
• Works independently on complex systems or infrastructure components that may be used by one or more applications or systems.
• Drives application development focused on delivering business-valuable features.
• Maintains high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits.
• Identifies and encourages areas for growth and improvement within the team.
• Mentors junior developers.
• Communicates with end users and internal customers to help direct development, debugging, and testing of application software for accuracy, integrity, interoperability, and completeness.
• Leads the development of new functionality and applications on cross-functional teams.
• Performs integration testing and customer acceptance testing of components that require careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results.
• Participates in technology evaluation and recommendations.
• Applies an enterprise-wide view to solutions to support the adoption of standards and practices and promote reuse.
• The employee is also responsible for performing other job duties as assigned by management from time to time.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience designing and developing enterprise Java applications (5+ years with a Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field).
• Strong expertise in Java 17+ and backend development.
• Experience developing scalable software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience with Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem.
• Solid understanding of software architecture patterns, including MVC, Microservices, and Event-driven Architecture.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs.
• Experience with API design and testing tools such as OpenAPI (Swagger), Postman, and Assertible.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, including IAM, API Gateway, Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, Kinesis, S3, CloudWatch, Lambda, ALB, NLB, Fargate, SQS, SNS, and KMS.
• Experience with messaging and event streaming technologies such as Amazon Kinesis, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Apache ActiveMQ.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices using Jenkins or similar tools.
• Experience delivering highly available, scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant backend solutions.
• Understanding of software architecture principles and experience contributing to technical design decisions.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet project deadlines.
• Passion for technology and eagerness to contribute to a collaborative, team-oriented environment.

We Offer

• Close cooperation with a customer.
• Challenging tasks.
• Competence development.
• Ability to influence project technologies.
• Team of professionals.
• Dynamic environment with low level of bureaucracy.

About the Company

ELEKS is a custom software development company. We deliver value to our clients, thanks to our expertise and experience gained from working as a software innovation partner since 1991.

Our 2000+ professionals located in the Delivery Centers across Eastern Europe and sales offices in Europe and North America, provide our clients with a full range of software engineering services. These include product development, QA, R&D, design, technology consulting, and dedicated teams.