Associate Software Development Engineer - Full Stack - Java - Hybrid 4 days - NYC

Publicis Groupe•New York, NY

1d•$107,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

An Associate, Software Development Engineer contributes to Publicis Sapient engagements by creating units of defect free code modules that meet the business and technical requirements during Enterprise Architecture Release (Ear), Implementation and Manage phases. We at Publicis Sapient, enable our clients to thrive in Next and to create business value through expert strategies, customer-centric experience design, and world-class product engineering. The future of business is disruptive, transformative and becoming digital to the core. In our 20 + years in IT, never before have we seen such a dire need for transformation in every major industry - from financial services to automotive, consumer products, retail, energy, and travel. To make this transformative journey a reality in these exciting times, we seek rockstars who will: brave it out to go do the next; “what will be” from “what is” Exhibit the optimism that says there is no limit to what we can achieve deeply skilled, bold, collaborative, flexible Reimagine the way the world works to help businesses improve the daily lives of people and the world. Our people thrive because of the belief that it is both our privilege and responsibility to usher our clients and the world into Next. Our work is fueled by challenging boundaries, multidisciplinary collaboration, highly agile teams, and the power of the newest technologies and platforms.

Requirements

3+ years of professional work experience building large scale, large volume services & distributed apps., taking them through production and post-production life cycles.
Use more than one programming language with expertise in at-least one; Ex: Memory Management, GC, Templates/Generics, Closures etc. Multi-Threading, Sync/A-Sync.; Blocking/Non-Blocking execution styles.
Practice Imperative, Functional Programming styles.
Aware of a Cloud Platform like AWS, GCP, Azure etc.
Problem solver choosing the relevant data structures, algorithms considering the tools for Time & Space Complexity.
Apply SOLID, DRY design principles, design patterns & practice Clean Code.
Expert at String Manipulation, Data/Time Arithmetic, Collections & Generics.
Practice & guide on handling failures à Error Management & Exception handling.
Build reliable & high-performance apps leveraging Eventing, Streaming, Concurrency, Multi-Threading & Synchronization libraries and frameworks.
Develop web apps using HTML, CSS, Java-script & relevant frameworks (Angular, React, Vue).
Design and build microservices from grounds up, considering all NFRs & applying DDD, Bounded Contexts.
Use one or more databases (RDBMS or NoSQL) based on the needs.
Deploy to production, trouble shoot problems & provide live support.
Understand the significance of security aspects & compliance to data, code & application security policies; Write secure code to prevent known vulnerabilities; Understand HTTPS/TLS, Symmetric/Asymmetric Cryptography, Certificates.
Use one or more Web Application Frameworks Spring or Spring Boot or Micronaut (Java) Flask or Django (Python) Express or Meteor or Koa (Node) Asp.net MVC, WebApi or Nancy (.Net).
Use one or more messaging platforms (e.g. JMS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/Tibco/Camel).
Use Mocks & Stubs & related frameworks (Moq).
Use logging frameworks like Log4j, NLog etc.
Use build tools like MsBuild, Maven, Gradle, Gulp etc.
Understand and use containers, virtualization.
Use proactive monitoring & alerting, dashboards.
Use Logging/Monitoring solutions (Splunk, ELK, Grafana).

Nice To Haves

Understand infra. as code (cattle over pets).
Understand reactive programming concepts, Actor models & use RX Java / Spring React / Akka / Play etc.
Able to set-up a CI/CD pipeline infrastructure & stack from grounds-up.
Able to articulate the pro’s, con’s of designs & tradeoffs.
Aware of distributed tracing, debugging and troubleshooting.
Aware of side-car, service mesh usage along with microservices.
Aware of distributed, cloud design patterns & architectural styles.
Aware of gateways, load-balancers, CDNs, Edge caching.
Aware of gherkin and cucumber for BDD automation.
Aware of performance testing tools like JMeter, Gatling.
Aware of one search solution like ElasticSearch, SOLR, Endeca.
Aware of one distributed caching solution like Redis, MemCache etc.
Aware of selenium for UI automation.
Aware of a Rules engine like Drools, Easy Rules etc.

Responsibilities

Develop, test, and maintain digital business applications.
Work with an agile team to develop, test, and maintain digital business applications.
Work with industry leading clients and global teams to solve complex business problems and build skills on the full stack of application development technologies.
Work in the spirit of agile & a product engineering mindset - delivering the sprint outcomes, iteratively & incrementally, following the agile ceremonies.
Groom the stories functionally & help define the acceptance criteria (Functional & Non-Functional/NFRs) collaborating actively with stakeholders - locally & in client org., understanding end-to-end customer requirements.
Actively contribute in technical grooming, brainstorming & whiteboarding design sessions to define & articulate the solution approaches, to identify tasks & estimates, and to document the module/sub-system design with their interfaces & wireframes.
Address NFRs like security, performance, reliability, maintainability and understand the need for trade-offs.
Optimize and make relevant design decisions (considering trade-offs) at the module / components level.
Learn & adopt new languages, platforms & toolkits constantly.
Work with SDE-IIs to understand & practice the overall system architecture, standards & guidelines; While helping them with module & sub-system level details.
Help evangelize and inculcate the engineering mindset and culture, share knowledge within Peer groups & ASDEs; Provide and receive constructive feedback.
Work on opportunities to shift left; Proactive about reduction of tech. debts, eliminating waste, increasing automation, using the right productivity tools, understanding client business, using dashboards for monitoring & alerts.
Accountable for development, unit testing of features with an E2E focus, following the engineering best practices, standards.
Solve problems at a story level, given the stories and system design.
Design Sub-systems/Modules, Ensure Implementation in-line with design & Integration with all dependent systems/modules; Focused on solving business problems.
Write Unit & Acceptance Testcases, adopting a Test First approach applying TDD; while using BDD for Functional & Integration testing.
Manage Tech Debts.
Use SCM like GIT; Understand & adopt different branching strategies for code development; Use integrated tools like Jira, Confluence etc., along with other collaboration tools across geo locations.
Perform Peer Reviews of sub-system, component level design & implementation, following the established coding standards.
Use Static Analysis & Profiling tools to ensure high Code Quality & Performance.
Practice the DevOps mindset, adopting CI/CD to Deliver, Deploy & Support the implementation from Dev., QA environments all the way to Production.
Document Code (Doc as Code), Functional Features (BDD), User Manuals to help in the support & training.