IT Software Engineer 5 - Senior Java Developer - AWS

The AES Group • Chicago, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The AES Group is a premier technology and engineering consulting company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 years to deliver innovative solutions that have the greatest positive impact on society. AES has helped over 40 business enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, engage their customers, empower their employees, and transform their business operations with the power of cloud, data, AI, engineering, and other emerging technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or electrical engineering or related field is required
• 10+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS. All applications are deployed to AWS
• Proven experience in application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.
• Solid knowledge of Computer Science fundamentals, such as data structures and algorithms.
• Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
• Demonstrated leadership on small to medium-scale projects impacting strategic priorities

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AI tools is a BIG PLUS
• Strong understanding and/or experience in many of the following : Message streaming solutions, such as AWS Kinesis, AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache ActiveMQ.
• Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible
• Hands on experience with testing tools such as Cucumber and Selenium and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
• Datastores such as AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, AWS DynamoDB, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, Redis, MySQL, Oracle.
• Other AWS technologies, such as API Gateway, ALB, NLB, Fargate, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, etc

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.
• Developing software applications using relational and NoSQL databases.
• Deploying software using CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GoCD, etc.
• Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
• Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum).
• Designing well-defined Restful APIs.
• Test Driven Development and Behavior Driven Development.
• Debugging and maintaining software in Linux or Unix platforms.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior