Java Software Engineer

Position: Software Engineer

Location: Dearborn, MI

Job Type: Contract W2

Client is looking for a few Software Engineers to work hybrid (2 days a week in office) in Dearborn, Michigan day 1.

Candidates are required to take a Hacker test to submit to technical roles at Ford Motor. A cumulative score of 105/150 is needed to be considered a "pass".

The test has been reduced to 1 hour instead of 2 hours!

Job Description:

• Handle Development, Enhancements and Production Support in the autonomous Product Driven Organization (PDO) team
• Develop software using test driven development to deliver user stories that contribute to a valuable working software product
• Improves continuous integration tooling by automating manual processes within the delivery pipeline and improving quality gates based on past findings
• Handle assignments with minimal direction and raise issues as vital to management - Be flexible to changing priorities
• Develop a deep understanding of the product, understanding the problems to be solved and deliver value to the customer
• Work with Product Manager to understand product vision
• Provide strong technical and analytical support both in new Development and Production support issues to ensure success of SLA's defined.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve the environment from both a technical and process perspective.
• Should closely work with technical teams, business and other stake holders.
• Should have good learning agility to cross train in related technology, application

Skills Required:

• 5+ years of experience in software development and support
• 5+ years of Object-Oriented Development experience where you applied expertise in building microservices architectures on JVM platform concepts with the following tools and technologies: - Spring Platform (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Cloud) - Asynchronous Messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Pub/Sub) - Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and technologies (Jenkins CI or similar)
• 5+ years of understanding, practicing, and advocating for clean code principles such as test-driven development (TDD/BDD), Extreme Programming (XP), self-documenting code, continuous refactoring, and writing Unit, Integration, and Acceptance test cases
• 3+ years Kotlin coding experience
• 3+ years experience working with cloud technologies (PCF, GCP)

Skills Preferred:

• 10+ years of experience in Development of Web Services REST/SOAP/WSDL/XML
• 10+ years of experience with a Java-based IDE
• 2+ years of experience with GitHub, Spring Boot, Sprint Cloud
• 2+ years of experience on Spring Platform (Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring JDBC, Spring Cloud)
• Experience with CI/CD and Test-driven development
• Experience with object-oriented analysis
• Experience building distributed / service oriented / micro-service-style and cloud-based solutions using Java (Spring)
• Experience with agile methodology and PDO, experience with Rally or similar tool preferred
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong drive for results and ability to multi-task and work Independently
• Self-starter with proven innovation skills
• Ability to work with multi-functional teams and all levels of Management
• Tackle highly sophisticated technical problems using industry best practices
• Evaluate new technologies, tools, develop POC, provide solution options and make recommendations
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Experience Required:

• 5-10 Years

Education Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology