Position: Senior Java Developer
Company: Forte Group
Category: Java
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

You will play a key role in designing and building our client's market-leading software products as they drive to continuously increase their cloud maturity and mobility. You will be working as a key part of an agile team to design, build, test, and support the client's enterprise software solutions. You will review, recommend & implement system enhancements that will improve the quality, performance, and maintainability of their products. You will be responsible for contributing to an always improving Engineering environment by ensuring all stakeholders (Engineers, Architects, Product Owners, SREs, IT Ops…) are informed of the status and supported in their roles.

With the variety of environments, platforms, technologies & languages, you must be comfortable working in a Cloud-based Linux environment and learning a variety of programming languages.

Responsibilities:
- Participate in design decisions for new and existing application development, proactively escalating issues and seeking assistance to overcome obstacles
- Prepare and provide project status and risk assessments to their manager with appropriate levels of detail to ensure that programs stay on schedule
- Perform coding, testing, and debugging throughout the entire development process to ensure systems meet documented user requirements
- Troubleshoot, test, and validate software issues; resolve issues with due urgency and maintain thorough documentation of all software solutions
- Perform engineering level tests to find defects; troubleshoot and debug development and production issues, collaborating with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans
- Work with Engineering leads to clarify and estimate feature work
- Lead and mentor junior level software engineers at various stages of the development process
- Work with QA Engineers to develop optimal product test plans and resolve new feature issues as QA finds bugs during release stabilization
- Perform code peer reviews

Qualifications:
- 5-7 years’ experience designing and developing new or maintaining existing software applications in a software product development environment
- Minimum proficiency required in one or more of the following: Java, SQL, Python, Shell scripting
- Experience building enterprise applications in the cloud (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure, etc)
- Familiarity with the IntelliJ IDE, GitHub, and the use of Jira/Confluence
- Practical experience with Agile methodologies
- Highly motivated self-starter with a desire to help others and take action
- Requires strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into non-technical terms
- Ability to independently work as a contributing member in a high-paced and focused team
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks with competing deadlines
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to work under pressure
- Ability to socialize ideas and influence decisions without direct authority
- Collaborative in nature with a strong desire to dig in and learn independently and as well as through asking questions
- Considers ‘best-practice’ standards, as well as departmental policies and procedures
- Computer science fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures & algorithms, and databases
- Upper-Intermediate level of English