Senior Java Developer

Position : Software Engineer
Location : St. Louis Missouri - Remote
Direct Client Requirement

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will play a leadership role on a product team to design and build new features and components in our evolving platform, helping to embrace modern principles like microservices and event driven architectures.

About The Client's Technical Stack :
The Digital and eCommerce team currently operates several B2B websites and direct digital sales channels via a globally deployed cloud-based platform that are a growth engine for client's life science business. We provide a comprehensive catalog of all products, enabling our customers to find products and purchase products as well as get detailed scientific information on those products.

Essential Job Functions:
• Work as part of an Agile development team, taking ownership for one or more services
• Provides leadership to the Agile Development team, driving technical designs to support business goals
• Ensuring the entire team exemplifies excellence in design, code, test and operation
• A willingness to lead by example – embracing change and foster a Growth and Learning culture on the team
• Mentoring team members through code review, design reviews
• Taking a lead role, working with product owners to help refine the backlog, breaking down features and epics into executable stories
• Have a high quality software mindset – making sure that the code you write works
• Design and implement robust data pipelines to ingest, process, and store large volumes of data from various sources.
• Stay updated with the latest technologies and trends in data engineering and propose innovative solutions.

Qualifications

Education:
• Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Mandatory Skills:
• 8-10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• Recent experience in Java, Kotlin, Oracle, Postgres, Data handling, Spring, Spring Boot
• Recent experience in Kafka, in memory caching
• Experience in developing REST services.
• Experience in unit test frameworks.
• Ability to provide solutions based on business requirements.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work with global teams and a flexible work schedule.
• Must have excellent problem-solving skills and be customer-centric.
• Excellent communication skills.

Preferred Skills:
• Experience with Microservices, CI/CD, Event Oriented Architectures and Distributed Systems
• Experience with cloud environments (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Amazon Web Services, etc.)
• Experience leading product oriented engineering development teams is a plus
• Familiarity with web technologies (e,g,, JavaScript, HTML, CSS), data manipulation (e.g., SQL), and version control systems (e.g., GitHub, GitLab)
• Familiarity with DevOps practices/principles, Agile/Scrum methodologies, CI/CD pipelines and the product development lifecycle
• Familiarity with modern web APIs and full stack frameworks.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Docker, Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience with Apache Airflow, Apache Flink, Google BigQuery is a plus
• Experience developing eCommerce systems – especially B2B eCommerce – is a plus.