Urgent Need - Sr. Software Engineer (JAVA/TYPESCRIPT/NODE.JS) with Higher Educational Clients Exp.

The Senior Software Developer, with expertise in Java and/or Typescript on NodeJs, will design and develop new enhancements in the higher education technology sector. The ideal candidate must be a self starter that can identify and resolve issues autonomously and collaboratively at the appropriate times.

Responsibilities

• Build efficient, testable, and reusable modules
• Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
• Integration of a variety of data storage solutions
• Take ownership of existing build and deployment pipelines
• Develop unit and system-level testing modules.
• Coordinate and communicate with remote team members in an Agile development environment

Critical Skills and Qualifications

• Strong understanding of modern Web Frameworks such as Express, and Spring.
• Strong understanding of modern Web API design patterns such as GraphQL, and/or RESTful APIs
• Strong understanding of fundamental design principles for building a scalable application
• Strong understanding of Authentication and Authorization access patterns and protocols
• Understanding of Object Oriented Programming following Service Layer Principles
• Basic understanding of synchronous and asynchronous operations
• Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
• Familiarity working in a cloud environment, particularly AWS
• Understanding of continuous integration/delivery, containers, and deployment automation
• Ability to leverage infrastructure-as-code tooling for repeatable configuration across dev, staging, and production environments;
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git and branching flow models

Desired Skills and Qualifications

• Familiarity with AI Assisted Development; its benefits, limitations, and how to avoid common pitfalls.
• Strong knowledge of common web server exploits and their solutions
• Thorough knowledge of User authentication and authorization flows between multiple systems, servers, and environments
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Familiarity with limitations of PHP, Java, or NodeJs as platforms and their workarounds
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
• Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases and their declarative query languages
• Familiarity with Unit test frameworks for Node and Java/groovy environments
• Familiarity with Integration testing using Postman, Allure, and/or Playwright
• Familiarity with Student Information Systems such as Peoplesoft, Banner, and Colleague and development against those systems.
• Familiarity with API Gateways such as Tyk and Kong