Java/AWS Developer

Every year, nearly 200 million travelers trust our client to get them where they're going. Take your career to new heights by working for this longstanding leader in air travel that services more worldwide destinations than any other airline.

We are looking for a Java/Cloud Developer to join our team for a 12 month contract in Atlanta, GA. You will be involved in developing new functionality, implementing web services, building micro services, and performing API integration for a highly visible large enterprise application. You will be actively coding, troubleshooting across all integration touchpoints; optimizing performance, resolving problems, and designing highly scalable enterprise application hosted on AWS cloud. As a Cloud Developer, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining our cloud applications, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, with 8+ years of relevant technical experience or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems with 2+ years of technical experience.
• 8+ years’ experience in Java, J2EE, Python development experience is required.
• Proven experience as a Full Stack Developer, with a strong focus on Java Spring and related technologies.
• Hands-on experience with JPA and Hibernate for database integration.
• Proficiency in OpenShift PaaS deployments.
• Strong knowledge of AWS server technologies, including S3, Lambda, VPC, Route53, MSK, Kinesis, Aurora, RDS, and DynamoDB.
• Must have familiarity and hands-on working experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with front-end technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue.js).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Experience working with GitHub and/or GitLab, SonarQube, JUnit, Spring Boot
• Skilled in writing, designing unit test cases using TDD and BDD methodologies.
• Hands on experience of virtualizing services for test automation using tools such as Wire Mock, Mockito etc.
• Hands on experience of working with continuous integration tools such Jenkins and Gitlab CI.
• Experience using relational and object databases and web service development standards and practices, including RESTful APIs, micro-services, and services.
• Experience working in an agile development environment using workload management tools like VersionOne/Agility
• Designing, prototyping, and demonstrating new features and components of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliance with requirements
• Assisting in the design, implementation and optimization of related approaches, tools, and workflows
• Maintaining current products/services and collaborating with other staff to ensure both functional and non-functional requirements are met
• Collaborate with the designers and product managers to ensure that the code that is developed meets their vision.
• Design the solution to meet functional and nonfunctional requirements
• Align to Security/Compliance framework and controls requirements, leverage Security + Compliance as code accelerators and leverage controls automation
• Own quality posture and write automated tests, ideally before writing code
• Develop delivery pipelines and automated deployment scripts
• Configure services, such as databases and monitoring
• Fix problems from the development phase through the production phase, which requires being on call for production support
• Expert troubleshooting and deployment experience with strong understanding of transforming business and functional requirements into efficient technical solutions
• Experience with system integrations, optimizing performance and data integrity
• Strong technical and non-technical communication skills. Assures smooth flowing, timely transmission of critical information.
• Excellent judgment and problem-solving skills; individual should be able to resolve urgent problems in a calm and quick manner and display a high degree of initiative and drive.
• Hands on experience of creating test reports from automation test run using tools such as cucumber report, Extent report etc.
• Experience with OpenShift, working knowledge of MQ

Desired Skills & Experience

• Airline industry experience is good to have.
• AWS/OpenShift and/or Java Distributed Technology certifications is a plus.
• AWS Certification is a plus
• DevOps and/or automation experience in code testing, building, and deployment a plus
• Experience building computer software within the airline industry is a plus
• Knowledge Linux operating systems a plus

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop amazingly efficient and effective software using Java, NodeJS, Python, Spring Boot, Microservices, APIs.
• Enhance and maintain on prem and internal PAAS applications, and actively rework these to AWS along project timelines.
• Help to design and implement serverless patterns from containerized applications.
• Build industry standard APIs and help with establishing, consuming & routing calls, connectivity protocols and policy.
• Design, develop and implement architecture patterns that are optimized for SLAs, reliability, and cost.
• Look upstream and downstream to see around corners and anticipate future consequences for immediate technical choices.
• Help to establish and grow a culture of software craftsmanship best practices, including TDD/BDD and Test Automation (both Unit and Integration), Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment.
• Drive performance improvements including monitoring, detailed metrics, problems, trends, and costs, to determine solutions, required process changes, etc. that will make the function more efficient.
• Ensure adherence to security standards and compliance with privacy rules and regulations early in the development.
• Be aggressive to resolve and prevent technical debt.
• Actively engage in Agile software development activities, including sprint planning, daily standups, and retrospectives, with an aim to continuously improve.
• Collaborate frequently to share ideas and gain perspective. Communicate critical information in a clear and timely manner, listen to others, and seek clarification to confirm shared understanding.
• Initiate and lead code reviews and continuous improvement efforts.
• Create usable documentation/playbook(s)
• Effectively analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs – communicate these across the team.
• Optimize pace and meet deadlines.
• Administer product upgrades and patches.
• Provide assistance and support other team members where required, including troubleshooting and maintenance of production systems/programs/applications.
• 24/7 On-call support rotation function is a component of this role.

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.