Full Stack Developer

Contract to hire position with a leading Financial firm.

Hybrid in Newark, NJ.

Description: Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; remove technical impediments

Develop high quality, well documented and efficient code adhering to all applicable standards

Collaborate with product owners in understanding needs and defining feature stories, tech leads in defining technical design and other team members to understand the system end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that bring about business impact

Write unit, integration tests and functional automation, researching problems discovered by quality assurance or product support, developing solutions to address the problems

Bring a strong understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, provide input and coach team members and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day

Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variables.

Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot frameworks

The Skills & Expertise You Bring

Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields

6+ years of hands-on experience building enterprise-grade applications using modern Java and JavaScript ecosystems

Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business

Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges

Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills

Advanced experience and/or expertise with several of the following:

Programming Languages: Python, Java, Java Script; Typescript working in distributed systems, object oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology; JAVA services using Spring, Maven, Microservices, multi-threading, Concurrency and parallel processing

Frameworks: React, Springboot, Flask, Django, Node.js (Run time)

Data Store: NoSQL or Relational Data structures – PL/SQ, DB2, Oracle, Postgres, RedShift

Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis, AWS MSK, Event Bridge

Application Programming Interfaces (API): Consumption & Development; implementing service oriented architecture (SOA) patterns; Web service technologies such as APIs, REST, JSON, SOAP, XML, JDBC, MySQL

API Management & Integration : Kong, Apigee

Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling (functional & non-functional)

Automated testing

Accessibility awareness

Software security skills including secure coding, web application security and DevSecOps; Solid grasp of security concepts (authentication, authorization, encryption, digital signature, JWT), SSL, web service proxies, firewall, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0)

Dev Ops Tools & Practices: Branching techniques and usage of GitHub, Bitbucket or Subversion; DevOps, Jenkins

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC): Monitoring and logging techniques

AWS Core Services across compute, storage, DB, IAM and analytics incl specific services listed above

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong UI expertise in building modern applications using React and JavaScript ecosystem is a Must.

Strong experience with Domain Driven Development (DDD)

AWS cloud native solution development

Architecture Patterns

Design and critical Thinking

Financial/Insurance industry experience is a must, not a plus

Experience with agentic frameworks and AI driven development tools is a Must. [Claude Code, GitHub Copilot etc]

Payrate 65 - 70 per hour depending on experience.

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