Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer
Location: Hybrid (Chicago, IL)
Full-Time
Contact: Alex @awilliams@forbestc.com

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with other developers to design and develop functional, performing and complete features, systems and APIs
• Constantly looks for better ways of solving technical problems and designing the solution by not being afraid of challenging the status quo
• Identify appropriate technical solutions that provide business value while mitigating technical debt
• Participate in R&D and POC’s before active development for any key features where solutions need to be created.
• Enable the development organization by creating working examples
• Liaise with the Wealth Lead Architecture Groups
• Solve problems collaboratively
• Work with other developers on the team, specifically with code reviews and pair programming
• Decipher existing software systems and platforms and hook in applications to applicable data sources
• Write both unit and integration tests and develop automation tools for daily tasks

Required Skills:

• 4+ years development experience using Java, Springboot, SQL and NoSQL databases
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture and development patterns and best practices
• 3+ years of experience designing and building cloud-native applications, microservices preferably using Azure or AWS

• Strong experience deploying and hosting applications in containers and Kubernetes
• Experience in Single Page Applications using React/Redux
• Strong Experience in Software Delivery following Agile practices and Azure DevOps

• Knowledge of the financial services industry, Wealth Management preferred

• Strong understanding of REST APIs and how to use them in practice.
• Strong Experience with continuous integration and collaboration tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, Bitbucket, GitHub and Confluence.
• Strong Experience with unit testing and test automation tools and frameworks like JUnit, Jasmine, Jest etc.
• Experience with PaaS such a Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AKS a plus

Contact:
Alex Williams
Recruiting Consultant
Forbes Technical Consulting
awilliams@forbestc.com