Software Engineer - Allied Consultants, Inc.

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 32 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Software Engineer to be a key resource on a technical services team.

Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law.  Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background checkAllied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.

Responsibilities

Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes. Investigates problem areas. Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.

As part of client's IT Applications – Social Services Applications initiatives, the worker will perform the following activities to accomplish the following goals:

• Develop, enhance, and maintain existing and new Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications within client’s SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) platform using Agile methodologies.
• As a member of the team, participate in requirements analysis, high-level and detailed design, development, testing, and deployment of new application components, as required.
• Work with other teams as necessary to accomplish goals.
• Create technical and design documentation, as required.
• Perform system analysis and problem resolution, as required.
• Analyze software for configuration and performance tuning opportunities, as required.
• Develop and maintain data and process models, as required.
• Employ contemporary testing methods to ensure applications function properly and without error.
• Provide technical support for testing and implementation efforts.
• Participate in program design, coding, and test walk-through meetings to provide input regarding technical standards and customer requirements.
• Provide application support (defect repair, maintenance, and production operations support) for Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications in an SOA platform. Perform system analysis, troubleshooting, diagnosis, and problem resolution. Analyze software for defects and performance tuning opportunities. Develop and test application code to resolve defects and improve application reliability and performance.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

8

Required

Hands-on experience in enhancing and maintaining enterprise-class applications using mavenized Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications.

8

Required

Hands-on experience participating in all phases of the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle).

8

Required

Extensive experience using Windows operating systems and Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for professional documentation, communication, and project management.

8

Required

Hands-on development experience implementing applications utilizing any J2EE Application Server, Authentication and Authorization, Caching strategies.

8

Required

Hands-on programming experience in the following languages and technologies: Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, iText, JSON, XML, Maven, Python, Shell Scripts, JFrog, Hibernate, JPA, SQL, Groovy, JMeter, JUnit, Mockito, Git, IBM MQ.

8

Required

Extensive experience working with Linux operating systems, including system administration, scripting, and optimizing performance in enterprise environments.

8

Required

Experience in developing self-contained, reusable, and testable modules and components.

8

Required

Experience in Test-driven development and test creation using frameworks such as Selenium.

8

Required

Demonstrable experience developing, optimizing, and maintaining enterprise-level mavenized Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications, including complete ownership of the backend stack.

8

Required

Experience in implementing best practices in the areas of application design, performance, scalability, and maintainability.

8

Required

Strong understanding of Java interactions with Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.

8

Required

Experience in the manipulation and processing of PDF files within enterprise applications.

8

Required

Experience in fundamental programming concepts of data structures, algorithms, performance, caching, and scalability issues in the context of mavenized Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications.

5

Preferred

Hands-on experience with IBM WebSphere Application Server 8 or later

5

Preferred

Hands-on experience with Agile Development Methodologies (preferably Scrum)

5

Preferred

Hands-on experience with developing Spring Boot REST services and Spring Batch applications for Cloud platforms.

5

Preferred

Comprehensive REST Service Endpoint Documentation

5

Preferred

Experience using Splunk for monitoring, searching, and analyzing data generated by online REST services or applications/services deployed to WebSphere, for troubleshooting and improving application performance.