Sr. Java / Microservices Developer

Duration: 6 Month Contract to Hire

Positions: 3 openings

Work Location: Hybrid 1-2 days a week downtown Toronto,

Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. No overtime expected

Role:

Advisory Developer - you will be a key member of the technology team supporting Digital Transformation, successfully implementing complex, enterprise-scale solutions on modern platforms with a variety of system integration and patterns. As a Java / Microservices Developer you will be responsible for overseeing each software release; coordinating with internal stakeholders, ensuring quality of releases and SLA's are met from a technical perspective.

Responsibilities:

• Interact with Business experts to discover business requirements.
• Interact with Enterprise Architects to clarify the high-level solution architecture.
• Engage with 3rd-party software product vendors and Dev teams where needed to work out interfaces or deployment particulars
• Compute work effort estimates and interact with Development and Project management to plan the delivery of work.
• Design the technical solution, in consultation with Development team Consultants and Managers.
• Develop the solution and corresponding unit tests and execute development-level testing. Coordinate with Development team peers on the integration and co-testing of multi-part solutions.
• Participate in design and code peer reviews.
• Work with the Operations team to document the solution's deployment procedures.
• Work with and support the Testing team to move the solution through the testing environments and the testing phases. Diagnose and resolve any testing variances found.

Qualifications:

• 7 + years of experience in software development with majority with Java development.
• Proficiency in Java 17 and experience with migrating to Java 21.
• 3+ years of experience in Java/J2EE, Spring/Springboot, Web Services (SOAP, JSON and RESTFul).
• 4+ years in Microservices architecture platforms, design patterns, design modelling, SOAP, XML, JSON and RESTFul web services, SQL,
• Experience with Springboot state transition
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD), writing Unit Test frameworks (e.g., JUnit, TestNG),
• 1+ years of experience in Cloud environments (Azure Preferred) and Containerization and Container Orchestration (OpenShift/Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of DevOps, GitHub, Docker, Splunk & Dynatrace
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical topics
• Strong planning ability, with close attention paid to progress vs plan.
• Ability to juggle multiple work items and prioritize between them.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Nice to have:

• Banking Experience
• Azure environment