Urgent hiring for Application Tech Lead - Ridgefield Park, NJ - 1 Year of Contract

Dear Candidate,

I hope you are doing well.

If you are interested in exploring this opportunity further, please feel free to send your resume to Eric@geopaqlogic.com or contact directly at 209-508-9079. I look forward to discussing how this role could be the next great step in your career.

Job Title: Application Tech Lead

Location: Ridgefield Park, NJ

Duration: 1 Year of Contract

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable applications and modules, writing clean, efficient, and well-documented code

Manage the entire software development lifecycle, including planning, prioritizing, testing, and releases, often using Agile methodologies

Lead, guide, and mentor junior developers, conducting code reviews and ensuring adherence to best practices

Work closely with project managers, business analysts, designers, and other engineers to define requirements and deliver innovative solutions

Implement automated testing, debug issues, troubleshoot complex problems, and ensure application security and performance

Contribute to high-level application design and database architecture

Participate in internal and external meetings to gather the business requirements and suggest solutions 

Analyze the business requirements and suggest the best practice to apply to the business requirements

Write clean code to produce fully functional backend processes and frontend UI modules

Develop a new or existing system of frontend UI and APIs

Write unit, integration, and production test scenarios

Troubleshoot and debug to optimize application performance

Liaise with the development team to identify and plan new features

Ensure the developed modules comply with Samsung SDS quality assurance standards

Research and suggest new technologies, applications, and protocols

Be an individual contributor when it comes to designing and developing frameworks and critical pieces of code that have a wider impact

Create detailed technical plans for the execution and implementation of projects

Be available to answer technical questions, clarifications, and clear obstacles for the team

Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes

Writing development progress reports

Requirements

10+ years of application development experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field

Extensive knowledge of Java development. This includes the whole process, from the first line of code to implementation in the production environment

Deep knowledge of operating systems, including but not limited to

Proficiency with writing automated tests in JUnit, Espresso, Mocha, Jest, Enzyme, XCTest, etc.

Proficiency in Java, with a good understanding of its ecosystems

Sound knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Patterns and Concepts

Familiarity with different design and architectural patterns

Skill for writing reusable Java libraries 

Know-how of Java concurrency patterns

Good understanding of the concepts of MVC (Model-View-Controller) Pattern, JDBC (Java Database Connectivity), and RESTful web services

Experience in working with popular web application frameworks like Play and Spark

Relevant Knowledge of Java GUI frameworks like Swing, SWT, and AWT according to project requirements

Extensive knowledge of the class loading mechanism in Java

Experience in handling external and embedded databases such as Oracle, MS SQL, etc.

Understanding basic design principles behind a scalable application

Skilled at creating database schemas that characterize and support business processes

Basic knowledge of JVM (Java Virtual Machine), its drawbacks, weaknesses, and workarounds

Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests 

In-depth knowledge of code versioning tools, for instance, Git

Expertise in continuous integration

Experience in Java Server Pages (JSP) and servlets, Web frameworks like Struts and Spring

Web Technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JQuery

Abstract classes and interfaces

Constructors, lists, maps, sets

File IO and serialization, Exceptions, and Generics

Java Keywords like static, volatile, synchronized, transient, etc

Multithreading and Synchronization

Experience with profiling and debugging Java-based applications and products

Experience integrating with backend systems preferred, such as ERPs, WMS, OMS, etc.

Solid knowledge of performance Improvement best practices

Experience in a similar role would be advantageous

Willingness to build professional relationships with staff and clients

Excellent communication, motivational, and interpersonal skills