Job Description

One of our direct client is urgently looking for a Sr. Software Engineer @ San Mateo, CA

TITLE: Sr. Software Engineer
LOCATION: San Mateo, CA
Duration: 6 to 12+ months

Rate: DOE

Key Responsibilities

• Develop modern web applications based on business requirements and industry standards

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to convert product requirements into technical needs

• Create and maintain the architecture and design documentation using UMLs, application flows, API specifications

• Contribute to the decision-making process for the selection of software products and component design solutions

• Contribute to software development guidelines and standards and promote their adoption within the engineering team

• Adopt software development best practices, standards, and guidelines

• Contribute to software quality, test source code your write, maintain code coverage and quality

• Develop and ship applications using best CI/CD practices

• Follow agile methodology for software development

• Innovate constantly and keep systems up to date with current technologies

• Advocate code quality and good documentation among team members

• Participate in providing production support as part of 24/7 follow-the-sun model

Requirements

• BE/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience  

• 8+ years of experience in building full-stack software applications

• Working experience in designing and developing high performance, scalable web applications and services 

• Profound understanding of software architecture (SOLID, KISS, BDUF), microservices architecture, software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms 

• Solid knowledge and experience in Java/Kotlin, Junit, SonarQube, Spring, Redis, Kafka, Hibernate

• Unit testing and static code analysis/code quality skills

• Solid understanding of Web standards and protocols 

• Working experience with git, Gradle, CI tools (BitBucket, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, etc)

• Experience delivering Dockerized applications

• Profound understanding and experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes

• Experience with production monitoring and alerting setup (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty, etc)

• Working experience with Cloud Infrastructure (GPC, AWS, Azure, etc)

• Working experience with NoSQL databases (Redis, Couchbase, Cassandra, etc.)

• Preferably working experience with identity protocols OAuth, SSO, SAML

• Preferably working experience with JavaScript (ES6/7), Node.js