Back End Developer III

Job OpportunityLooking for local candidates currently. The resource would be able to work remote, but the team does meet on campus from time to time. Looking for a candidate with flexibility.***1 SUB SLOTS IN BEELINE***  - Initial 9 months contract to start - Very likely to be longer-termed/ongoingBusiness Overview:The Customer Domain (aka Customer Engagement Services) is responsible for enterprise and digital capabilities, features, services and platforms that enable core operational use of customer account data, loyalty and cardmember services, customer account-based offers, customer notifications, customer identity & access management, and fraud risk mitigation.Project DescriptionThe Customer Transactional Communications team exists to send accurate and timely notifications to end customers based on their interactions with Best Buy across different channels via email, sms, push and other mechanisms.Position Summary/Job DescriptionIn this role, they will be a critical member of the team building the foundation for Best Buy's next generation web platform. They will support and extend running applications & assist in the design and development of new applications. They will be expected to evaluate and refactor in a rapid manner for every part of our infrastructure. Overall knowledge of designing an application to run on a scalable platform is expected. You will be working in an agile environment which means test-driven development and pair programming. We are evolving towards a dev/ops model, with our development teams engaged in monitoring, optimizing and supporting our production environments. We have many projects running in parallel including Cloud technologies, Infrastructure automation, and SOA REST based web applications.ResponsibilitiesDeveloping Java/Spring web applicationsAggressive refactoringObject Oriented Programming and Service Oriented Architecture designSkills• 7-10 years of relevant application software development experience• Test-Driven Development• Strong Spring knowledge• Developing Spring/Java/Groovy/Maven applications• Experience in developing/consuming REST Services – Absolute Must• Object-oriented programming and experience with working knowledge of Design Patterns• Experience with emergent design and paired programming• Strong unit-testing skills (JUnit/Spock in particular)• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures• Able to participate in the planning process: take high level design discussions and create user stories, then further break those stories into tasks.Skills OverviewWhat are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?1. Java / Groovy2. Spring / Spring Boot3. GCP Cloud4. Distributed Computing5. SQLYears of experience: 7-10yrsWhat are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?1. Jenkins pipelining - Continuous Integration/Delivery2. Apache Beam3. Kafka4. Infrastructure as code5. Data Modeling6. Spock7. Cassandra database8. Microservice architecture9. React