Application Developer

About the role

Software Guidance & Assistance, Inc. (SGA) is seeking an Application Developer for a contract assignment with a premier Financial Services client in New York, NY.

Responsibilities

• Work on re-platforming applications from on-premises to cloud-based services in AWS.
• Quickly understand the on-prem implementation and implement the roadmap to migrate the application to cloud.
• Develop products and services on the latest technologies through contributions in requirement analysis, development, enhancements, testing and implementation.
• Effectively leverage open-source components and home-grown frameworks.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Partner with business and peers in pursuit of solutions that achieve business goals through an agile software development methodology.
• Perform problem analysis, data analysis, reporting, and communication.
• Work with peers across the system to define and implement best practices and standards.
• Develop, modify, extend code to build cloud infrastructure and automate using CI/CD pipeline.
• Actively participate in code reviews.
• Build robust and secure applications and leverage tools to automate verification of code quality, scan vulnerabilities and address findings.

Required Skills

• Expert level proficiency with hands-on design and development skills in Java/Scala.
• Nice to have knowledge of Python programming language.
• Strong technical skill in software engineering in Java EE/Cloud technologies and proficiency in Java 8+ Lambdas, Streams API and functional programming concepts.
• Hands-on experience of building distributed system with micro-services, Spring boot and Spring cloud.
• Expert level skills in SQL queries in databases like Oracle and NoSQL databases.
• Hands-on experience in building/implementing cloud native applications, preferably on AWS platform.
• Expertise in AWS Compute (i.e. AWS Fargate), AWS Storage (S3), AWS Data Integration (preferably Glue), Lambda, Secrets Manager and AWS Core services.
• Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in Spark and Databricks Workflows.
• Solid hands-on containerizing experience leveraging Docker images.
• Good understanding of AWS Identity and Access management, AWS Networking and Logging.
• Proficiency in CI/CD and deployment automation using GITLAB pipeline.
• Familiarity with Cloud infrastructure provisioning tools.
• Passion for developing loosely coupled testable applications using automated unit tests, Integration Test, etc.

Preferred Skills

• Preferable to have a major in Computer Science in the Undergraduate/Graduate.

Qualifications

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States for the duration of the assignment.
• This position is not available for C2C arrangements, and the company is unable to provide visa sponsorship.