Able to write secure code in Java, SQL
Familiar with secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT) and vulnerability management
Infrastructure as code and cloud first software development knowledge experience preferred.
Understands and implements standard branching (e.g., Gitflow) and peer review practices. Move the team towards trunk-based development
Apply tools (e.g., Sonar, Zally, Checkmarx ) and techniques to scan and measure code quality and anti-patterns as part of development activity
Has skills in test driven and behavior driven development (TDD and BDD) to build just enough code and collaborate on the desired functionality. Ability to keep the full testing pyramid healthy - Has skills to author test code with lots of smaller tests followed by few contract tests at service level and fewer journey tests at the integration level
Understands the use of basic design patterns (e.g., factory, adaptor, singleton, composite, observer, strategy, inversion of control)
Understands use cases for advanced design patterns (e.g., service-to-worker, MVC, API gateway, intercepting filter, dependency injection, lazy loading, all from the gang of four) to implement efficient code
Understands and implements Application Programming Interface (API) standards and cataloging to drive API/service adoption and commercialization and effort estimation
Experienced in agile and modern SDLC practices (Scrum/Kanban/Continuous Delivery/DevOps/Quality engineering) and the delivery situations they are used for
Has skills to orchestrate release workflows and pipelines and apply standardized pipelines via APIs to achieve CI and CD using industry standard tools (e.g., Jenkins, AWS/Azure pipelines, XL Release, others).
Understanding of Continuous Integration (CI) and Delivery (CD) concepts, and capabilities to support automation, pipelines, virtualization, and containerization
Able to perform debugging and troubleshooting to analyze core, heap, thread dumps and remove coding errors
Has skills to conduct product demos and co-ordinate with product owners to drive product acceptance signoffs
Work Experience
Java Spring Boot
Hibernate
Microservices
Kafka (Good to have)