Java/J2EE/Spring Developer - 29165W  

Contract or Contract to hire after 6 months to a year!

POSITION OVERVIEW:
This is a software engineering position in a world-class software organization, developing high scale J2EE applications.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide technical expertise to a project team, including requirements analysis, brainstorming, design and implementation of new software.
- Mentor engineers to improve design and implementation skills.
- Write production quality code in Java, J2EE., and Spring
- Adhere to software development and source control processes.
- Provide the software development and product management teams with feedback on the product (manageability, supportability, robustness, functionality, etc.).
- Lead the way with best practices and new technology within the Engineering team.
- Collaborate with the Product Owner and the Team in defining user roles and writing user stories.
- Work with the Team to provide story point estimates and break user stories down into tasks and supply task-level estimation.
- Design, build, configure, test, and document production quality software on an iterative basis.
- Refactor and maintain existing code on a continuous basis.
- Contribute to the overall success of the Product Development organization.
- Provide input into improvements of core engineering assets. Design, build, configure, test changes to the core product technology.
- Assist support and operations in resolving configuration and technical issues in a "last tier" support capacity.
- Perform other projects/assignments that the Team commits to.
- Write documentation.

REQUIRED SKILLS:
- Must have 4+ years of Object Oriented server-side development and design experience in a multi-tiered environment.
- 3+ years solid experience implementing Web-based systems in high volume enterprise-class environments.
- 3+ years software development experience with Linux, Apache, Tomcat, J2EE (preferably BEA Weblogic), Java, SQL, Maven, Ant, Eclipse.
- 1+ years experience with Junit required.
- Experience writing Enterprise Java Beans required.
- Knowledge of Spring Framework and Hibernate.
- Experience with Web Services (SOAP/REST).
- 1+ years experience with UML required.
- 1+ years experience as a user of enterprise-class configuration management software (such as IBM Rational ClearCase or Perforce) required
- Experience with XML structure and transformation technologies (such as XSD, XSL, etc) required.
- Experience with Fitnesse or other user-acceptance test frameworks.
- 2+ years experience on an agile team using Scrum, XP, Crystal, etc.
- 2+ years experience with agile development practices including Test Driven Development, Refactoring, paired programming, continuous integration, automated acceptance testing, etc.
- Ability/initiative to define and evolve processes to ensure continuous improvement.
- Adaptable, able to acquire technical and business skills needed to integrate with and satisfy our diverse clients rapidly.
- Team player.
- Quality-focused, customer-focused.
- Action oriented. Possess a strong bias for action; takes it personally when an issue is unresolved.
- Confident and polished. Demonstrated ability to make our internal customers feel confident in our ability to get job done.
- A passion for hands-on technical problem solving.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science-related field.
**Masters degree in Computer Science - strongly preferred.**

NextGen Information Services, is a premier consulting and permanent placement organization focused on hiring talented Information Technology professionals. We offer flexible hiring options which may include W-2 hourly, Salary, 1099, Corp. to Corp. and Direct Hire opportunities.

For immediate consideration, please send a resume to Apply Here with
Java Seattle 29165 in the subject line.

Holly B. White
NextGen Information Services
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