Right to hire contract. Hybrid, in Newark, NJ. 3 days per week.

Seeking talented backend, front end and fullstack developers for a major investment firm.

AWS and Agile experience is required.

Looking for junior, mid-level and senior developers.

As a Software Engineer in the Technology Organization, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals to improve applications across the retirement systems. You will code, test and debug new and existing applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to advanced technical expertise and experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Here is 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, Node.js frameworks

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
Ability to coach others with minimal guidance and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
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

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

Programming Languages: Python, Java or Java Script; working in distributed systems, object oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology; JAVA services using Spring CLI, Maven, Microservice, multi-threading, Concurrency and parallel processing
Frameworks: React, Angular, Springboot, Node.js, such as Full / MEAN / MERN stack
Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures; MongoDB BPM tools
Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis, Kafka
Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL

Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)

Automated testing: JUnit, Jasmine
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: AWS Services such as CloudWatch, Code-Deploy

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Development
Architecture Patterns
Design Thinking
Financial/Insurance industry experience is a plus, not a must

payrate: 50 - 75 /hr depending on experience.

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