Role: Java Developer

Location : NYC (Onsite)

Type : Contract

Top Skills:

- Strong experience with REST API's both building and consuming

- Strong experience working with Service level architecture at the enterprise level- ideally a fintech or payments organization (Java, Gradle, Graph QL - Kotlin is a plus and/or an eagerness to learn)

- Strong experience collaborating with others teams, working across globally dispersed teams- much of the job is collaborating with other teams that own the APIs you need to build off of

- Passion for not just back end but how your work impacts the user experience of the application- has worked closely with product and UI teams

Relevant technologies that you may encounter:

· Kotlin

· Gradle

· REST

· GraphQL

· Java

Responsibilities:

· Contribute to the design, architecture, and development of Server-Side REST APIs that are elegant, efficient, secure, highly available, and maintainable

· Works closely with other developers and end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction

· Contribute insights into ways to improve our processes and tools

· Be highly motivated and maintain a positive, “can-do” attitude in a fast-moving environment

· Follow and help cultivate consistent development best practices

· Collaborates with project manager and other software developers to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain the applications and APIs

· Provides thought-leadership regarding implementation best practices

· Assists in estimation and assessment of feasibility of features

· Foster a collaborative spirit across multiple teams

Relevant experience and skills:

· Building server-side applications

· Writing code

· Refactoring code

· Deleting code

· Build tools

· Continuous Integration

· Fixing bugs

· Asynchronous code

· Performance Analysis and Optimization

· Legacy Code

· Unit tests

· Open Source

· Working in a team

· Self-starting