Senior Java Developer

Principal Software Engineer (P4), SmartHome Solutions

The successful candidate will be a highly technical member of a small team leading product innovation, new technology adoption, and cloud strategy in the IoT domain. The successful candidate should have a broad and deep software engineering expertise, a demonstrated ability to architect and independently deliver on hands-on tasks, and a passion for automation and continuous improvement. The successful candidate is a technical leader who can inspire the business and drive innovation.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead new technology adoption delivering new capabilities and driving value attainment for consumers
• Provide leadership, motivation, and direction to IT for all issues and planning touching SmartHome Solutions' IoT application landscape
• Proactively drive SmartHome Solutions architecture and on-going evolution ensuring maintenance of current stability, reliability, performance, flexibility, and capacity
• Drive compliance with industry best practice for system implementation and technical architecture standards
• Act as an architect and designer of central applications
• Plan, scope, size, architect, design, prototype, and engineer solution components
• Hands-on engineering of difficult and complex sections of the application
• Ownership of the full lifecycle of the platform: brainstorming, development, delivery, maintenance, and decommissioning
• Deliver solutions using (but not limited to) the following technologies: Java, Node.js, React, Puppet, PHP, AWS, Machine Learning, Bash, Linux, Jenkins, HTML, JavaScript, Git
• Produce detailed functional and technical software specification documents for scalable applications
• Establish and drive best practices for maximum code reuse, testability, application integration, performance, reliability, manageability, and security
• Design and develop re-usable components and operational strategies in the cloud to support scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, restore, etc.
• Deliver solutions in a few weeks from concept to delivery
• Rapidly embrace and implement new technologies
• Take an automation first approach to streamline processes
• Establish strategy for incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and problem resolution
• Build and maintain an automated DevOps delivery/deployment model to enable continuous release of software into cloud environments
• System availability and uptime, capacity planning, maintenance scheduling, and disaster recovery
• Perform software upgrades and installations as required in support of cloud strategy and business priorities

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field and/or 6+ years of experience in software development in lieu of a degree
• 1+ years’ experience in technical leadership
• 5+ years’ experience in Java
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with TDD
• Experience with NoSQL DBMS
• Familiarity with software and infrastructure change management, release management, and source code configuration control including knowledge of CI/CD tools and processes
• Familiarity with performance tuning applications
• Experience with Git
• Ability to reason through complex situations with strength in identifying and mitigating risks
• Ability to build / maintain strong relationships, effectively partner with peers, and possess excellent verbal / written communication skills
• Strong prioritization skills required to manage all in-flight and pending tasks appropriately.
• Desire to continually learn

Desired:

• Master’s degree in computer science/engineering or related field
• 5+ years’ experience with AWS
• Experience in Unix/Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Java
• Experience using standard tools and techniques (ssh, bash, unix scripting, sed/awk, perl, etc)
• Experience with CloudFormation, and/or ARM templates, and/or yaml scripting
• Experience training and maintaining machine learning models using various ML frameworks
• Experience in Agile Software Development
• Experience in application frameworks
• Experience in application testing technologies
• Analytics experience with large amounts of real time data
• Strong strategic thinker who can translate strategies into solutions with concrete actions & tactical plans
• Self-starter with an ability to solve problems with little or no direction
• Familiarity with and experience implementing open-source software
• Comfortable making local decisions when needed
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Process-oriented and committed to superior quality and customer service

Required Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2+ years), Java (5+ years), AWS Lambda, AWS DynamoDB Basic Qualification: Backend Java Development, AWS experience, NoSQL DBMS, Designing/Implementing CI/CD pipelines Additional Skills: Backend Java Development, AWS experience, NoSQL DBMS, Designing/Implementing CI/CD pipelines

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