Company Description

Optima is a leading provider of talent acquisition services for large and small enterprises alike. We are engaged to find talented individuals like yourself who are seeking dynamic opportunities with Optima's clients. Most of our clients have exciting new products and services that will likely be America's next super star sensations and household names.

Job Description

Perform research, analysis, design, development, testing, and integration as part of client's professional services team. This may be as part of implementing, customizing, extending, and integrating existing open source platforms, or may be completely new custom software development as per customer requirements.

May be open to virtual employment for the most qualified candidate

This is a Fulltime/Direct Hire position, but will be open to contract

Qualifications

Education and Work Experience

Bachelor's degree in software engineering or computer science, or equivalent experience
3+ years of professional experience designing, developing and supporting web-based applications

Required Knowledge & Skills

Experience developing web-based applications with Java and JEE APIs
Professional experience with application/product deployment and documentation
Professional experience writing and conducting unit tests
Understanding of core concepts and principles of XML and JSON
Agile software development experience: Scrum Process, Extreme Programming (XP), and/or other Agile software development practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Experience with Open Source technologies, projects, and communities
Ability to work within an environment with low specificity, vague requirements
Skilled at being persuasive and possessing the ability to direct a project
Motivated self starter and quick learner
Able to work independently without supervision
Excellent communications and interpersonal skills
Outstanding attention to detail
Strong analytical and design skills
Strong teamwork skills

Preferred Knowledge & Skills

Professional experience with Java XML APIs, especially WWWC DOM and dom4j
Experience with Web Services (especially REST)
Experience deploying and troubleshooting Apache Tomcat
Professional experience with Spring, Hibernate (or other JPA libraries), and Ehcache
Working familiarity with portal technologies and the Java Portlet specifications
Advanced understanding of Object Oriented Design, Design Patterns, and UML
Professional experience with XML related technologies, especially XSL/XPATH and DTD/Schema
Professional experience with relational database platforms
Professional experience developing multi-threaded and distributed systems
Experience working on performance and scalability issues in large-scale enterprise systems
Experience with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA)
Experience using common source code control tools, especially Git
Working familiarity with common server operating systems, especially Linux
Experience using Amazon Web Services (e.g., EC2, S3, DynamoDB)
Systems integration experience

Additional Information

Competitive Salary and Comprehensive Benefits

All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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