Middle Java Software Engineer for a Research Databases Company

We are currently looking for a Middle Software Engineer with 2+ years of Java experience, Spring and Microservices expertise, to join our team for a new open source project.

The customer provides a complete and optimized research solution comprised of e-journals, e-books, and research databases — all combined with the most powerful discovery service to support the information needs and maximize the research experience of its end-users.

The main pool of tasks is associated with work on “green field” projects focused on designing, architecting, and building core software products onto the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform.

Please note that even though you are applying for this position, you may be offered other projects to join within EPAM Anywhere.

Responsibilities

• Work with a team on design, implementation, testing and delivery of high-volume customer-facing applications that support customer’s products and services
• Collaborate with product management and your team while analyzing and decomposing complex software features into simpler stories for planning and execution
• Collaborate with your team to manage and estimate the size and complexity of the features/stories
• Perform the technical design, implementation, and testing of feature/stories and commit to what can be accomplished in an iteration
• Own system and feature quality throughout the development, testing and deployment phases to ensure quality delivery expectations are met
• Suggest improvements to continuously improve the quality of the team’s deliverables
• Conduct new technology research, proof of concept, and design work that will provide direction for the enhancement of the overall system and products
• Adhere to software engineering best practices for design, coding standards, performance, security, delivery, maintainability and culture
• Demonstrate ownership of developed components from development through production

Requirements

• 2+ years of Java experience
• Knowledge of Spring
• Experience with Microservices
• Knowledge of React
• Understanding and experience with Redux
• Knowledge of Node.js

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS
• Knowledge of CI/CD, Jenkins
• Familiarity with Scrum
• Experience in testing of web applications (such as Karma.js and JMeter)

We offer

• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
• Work on enterprise-level projects on a long-term basis
• Full-time remote work
• Unlimited access to learning resources (EPAM training courses, English classes, Internal Library)
• Community of 38,000+ industry's top professionals