Full Stack Developer

About the Role

Contract to hire position with a leading Financial firm. Hybrid in Newark, NJ.

What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; remove technical impediments
• Develop high quality, well documented and efficient code adhering to all applicable standards
• Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining feature stories, tech leads in defining technical design and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact
• Write unit, integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems
• Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot frameworks

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• 6+ years of hands-on experience building enterprise-grade applications using modern Java and JavaScript ecosystems
• Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills

Skills

Advanced experience and/or expertise with several of the following:

• Programming Languages: Python, Java, Java Script; Typescript working in distributed systems, object oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology; JAVA services using Spring, Maven, Microservices, multi-threading, Concurrency and parallel processing
• Frameworks: React, Springboot, Flask, Django, Node.js (Run time)
• Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures – PL/SQ, DB2, Oracle, Postgres, RedShift
• Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis, AWS MSK, Event Bridge
• Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL
• API Management & Integration: Kong, Apigee
• Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)
• Automated testing
• Accessibility awareness
• Software security skills including secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0)
• Dev Ops Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub, Bitbucket or Subversion; DevOps, Jenkins
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Monitoring and logging techniques
• AWS Core Services across compute, storage, DB, IAM and analytics incl specific services listed above

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong UI expertise in building modern applications using React and JavaScript ecosystem is a Must
• Strong experience with Domain Driven Development (DDD)
• AWS cloud native solution development
• Architecture Patterns
• Design and critical Thinking
• Financial/Insurance industry experience is a must, not a plus
• Experience with agentic frameworks and AI driven development tools is a Must (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot etc)

Pay

$65 - $70 per hour depending on experience.