Software Engineer

Job Title : Lead Software Engineer

Location : Newark, NJ - Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)

Duration : 12+ Months (Temp to Hire)

About Role :

As a Lead Software Engineer, you will partner with product owners, tech leads, designers, engineers and delivery professionals. 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 client's 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.
• 3-7 years of hands-on knowledge and experience with developing applications in Java, SpringBoot, Python, node.js, react or angular .
• Experience with developing java or python applications in AWS development stack
• Experience with using ECS, containers, GitHub, Kong / APIGEE and understanding of authentication and authorization enforcement in java services.

The Skills & Expertise You Bring :

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

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)

Preferred Qualifications :