Senior Java Developer with Security

8+ years MINIMUM experience in Java, preferably 10-15. Must be familiar with and worked within security (Spring Boot, Oauth, Microservices, API)

Location – Chicago - onsite 5 days a week is MANDATORY

18 month contract with possibility of extension up to 2 years

This role is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the role include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. This role ensures solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. These individuals possess strong proficiency in development and testing practices common to the industry, and have extensive experience of using design and architectural patterns

Responsibilities:
• Contribute to story refinement/defining requirements.
• Participate and guide team in estimating work necessary to realize a story/requirement through the delivery lifecycle.
• Perform spike/proof of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
• Code solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
• Utilize multiple architectural components (across data, application, business) in design and development of client requirements.
• Assist team with resolving technical complexities involved in realizing story work.
• Design/develop/modify architecture components, application interfaces, and solution enablers while ensuring principal architecture integrity is maintained.
• Design/develop/maintain automated test suites (integration, regression, performance).
• Set up and develop a continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline.
• Automate manual release activities.
• Mentor other Software Engineers and coach team on CI-CD practices and automating tool stack.

Required Skills:
• Strong experience in Java development for large and complex enterprise applications using JDK 8+ and Spring framework
• Strong experience writing and consuming web services – REST & SOAP.
• Ability to provide solutions based on industry standard frameworks/platforms like SpringMVC, NodeJS, React, Angular, etc.
• Proficiency using software development tools: JIRA, GIT, Maven, Jenkins, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, SOAPUI, Postman, etc.
• Experienced in application container setup and application deployment in Linux environment
• Thorough understanding of application security concepts, including authentication, authorization, session management. Familiarity with OAuth, OIDC, FIDO protocols and related products.
• Solid technical background and understanding of system architecture, loading balancing, TLS
• Working knowledge of application security, identity access management, and cryptography.
• Must be able to understand vendor or leading-edge technical documents and perform proof of concepts to evaluate product options/features.
• Demonstrated initiative and effective independent development skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Desired Skill:
• Familiarity with Ping Identity, Hypr products
• Experience with application vulnerability patterns and remediation
• Experience with developing secure applications using HSM