Job Title: Software Engineer Level 4 (Java
Backend Developer)

Location: Chicago, IL OR Peoria, IL (Hybrid _
2–3 days onsite)

Duration: 12 months potential to be extended

Travel: Minimal (if any, within
Chicago/Peoria)

Role Overview

Focus
:
Backend API development supporting:

·
Digital
applications

·
Dealer
applications

·
Customer
applications

Primary Responsibility
: Develop, maintain, enhance, and support
backend services

Key Technical Requirements:

Experience
:

·
Minimum
8+
years in Java

·
At least
1+
year in AWS

Core Skills
:

·
Backend
development (strong emphasis)

·
Java (latest
versions preferred; Java 21 acceptable, Java 25 ideal)

·
AWS services
(extensively used)

Testing Tools
:

·
Preferred
: Cucumber, Selenium

·
Performance
Testing
: JMeter

·
Postman not preferred
(team uses alternative tools)

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

Participate in
Scrum ceremonies
:

·
Daily stand-ups

·
Sprint activities

Work from
Azure DevOps Scrum board

Balance of work:

·
~
70% new
development

·
~
30%
maintenance/support

Occasional involvement in
high-level design

Candidate Profile Expectations

·
Strong
backend
development background
(critical)

·
Hands-on coding
experience preferred over architecture-heavy profiles

·
Ability to:

1.
Collaborate within and across teams

2.
Contribute to design discussions when needed

·
Resume
expectations:

1.
Clear project
history with proper timelines

2.
Explanation
required for any employment gaps

Project Scope & Domain

·
Work spans
multiple
enterprise domains
, including:

1.
User entitlement services

2.
Asset management

3.
Other evolving enterprise areas

·
Emphasis on
diverse
backend service development
, not limited to one domain

The main function of a software engineer is to apply the principles of computer
science and mathematical analysis to the design, development, testing, and
evaluation of the software and systems that make computers work.

A typical software engineer researches,
designs, develops and tests operating systems-level software, compilers, and
network distribution software for medical, industrial, military,
communications, aerospace, business, scientific and general computing
applications.

Job Responsibilities:

·
Review and
approve the modification of existing databases and database management systems.
Instruct staff to write and code logical and physical database descriptions and
specify identifiers of database to management system.

·
Direct database
development and approve project scope and limitations. Review project requests
describing database user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish
project.

·
Plan, coordinate,
and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files
against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.

·
Approve,
schedule, plan and supervise the installation and testing of new products and
improvements to computer systems. Develop standards and guidelines to guide the
use and acquisition of software and to protect vulnerable information.

Skills:

·
Verbal and
written communication skills, problem solving skills, customer service and
interpersonal skills.

·
Expert ability to
work independently and manage one’s time. Expert mentoring skills necessary to
provide support and constructive performance feedback.

·
Expert knowledge
of the full software development lifecycle: from business/systems analysis,
through requirements gathering and functional specification authoring, to
development, testing and delivery. Expert ability to troubleshoot issues and
make system changes as needed to resolve issue. Expert knowledge of computer
hardware and software.

·
Knowledge of
computer development software as it relates to systems, such as SQL,
VisualBasic, etc.

Education/Experience:

·
Bachelor's degree
in computer science, software engineering or relevant field required. 8+ years’
experience required.

Typical task breakdown:

·
Work as part of
Agile team and participate in Scrum activities.

·
Competent to
perform all programming, development, integration and system administration
assignments without close supervision.

·
Designs, codes,
tests, and debugs programs of high complexity.

·
Configuration or
customization of purchased software solutions with high complexity.

·
Provides project
management, programming, systems, and/or system administration leadership,
guidance, and assistance to other team members.

·
Works on more
complex application/technical problem identification and resolution, including
responding to off-shift and weekend support calls.

·
Works
independently on complex processes and modules that may be used by one or more
programs, systems or in support of infrastructure component change management.

·
Develops major
system modules, programs or infrastructure released based on requirements
gathered from system customers.

·
Performs
integrated testing and customer acceptance testing of system components that
requires careful planning and execution to ensure timely, quality results

·
Fully
knowledgeable of programming languages appropriate to the platform supported,
program design and specification development, programming logic, logic
diagrams, system analysis techniques, testing, debugging, documentation
standards, file
design, storage and internal systems;

·
Performs
integration tasks for in-house developed systems and/or purchased hardware and
software solutions. Assists customers with documentation, training and
usability efforts.

Interaction with team
:

·
Significant
interaction required with Scrum team. Interaction during all scrum ceremonies
such as Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Grooming, Retro, Demo etc. Also need
to interact with team for PR Reviews, also need to engage with other teams as
needed.

Work environment
:

·
Strong
collaboration required.

Education & Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer science or Electrical engineering or related
field, Plus 8+ years exp
- Master Degree plus 6+ years exp.
Technical Skills:

·
8+ years or more
of software development experience or at least 6 years of experience with
master’s degree in computer science or related field.

·
8+ years or more
of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java or at
least 6 years of experience in Java with master’s degree in computer science or
related field.

·
At least 3 years
of experience developing in AWS: cloud formation templates, deploying ECS
clusters, Lambda, Fargate, Amazon Elastic Search, S3. Strong understanding of
IAM roles and policies.

Proven experience in following,

·
Designing,
developing, deploying and maintaining software at scale.

·
3 years of experience
building and developing with Cloud Technologies (such as AWS, Azure, GCP) o
Developing software applications using relational and Nosql databases.

·
Application
architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc.

·
Deploying software
using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure Devops etc.

·
Deploying and
maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.

·
Working within an
Agile framework (ideally Scrum)

Strong understanding and/or experience in some
of the following,

·
Batch or stream
processing systems such as AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Kinesis.

·
Experience
designing well-defined Restful APIs

·
Hands on
experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible

·
Test driven
development and behavior driven development.

·
Hands on
experience with testing tools such as Selenium and Cucumber and their
integration into CI/CD pipelines.

·
Datastores such
as DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Oracle.

·
Must demonstrate
solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures and
algorithms.

Soft Skills (Required):

·
Ability to work
under pressure and within time constraints.

·
Passion for
technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment.

Disqualifiers/Red Flags
:

·
Resume shows a
lot of front-end and no back end exp, they will not qualify.

-
If resume does
not have the candidate’s current location of residence, they will be DQ.

-
If candidate does
not currently reside in the local area but open to relocate on their dime, that
needs to be clear on the resume.