SCIGON has an immediate need to a Senior Java Developer for a Contract to Hire position in San Diego or Campbell, CA.

Summary of Duties:
The ideal candidate for this position should have an advanced grasp of the full gamut of the software engineering lifecycle: requirement gathering, design proposals, implementation, testing and maintenance for the enhancement of both existing and new products & tools. This candidate will provide technical support to project team members and rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. The position will involve a variety of complicated tasks and may require leadership of others, working under general direction. A wide degree of creativity and resourcefulness is expected.

Due to the nature of our organization, we work in a high-pace and extremely collaborative Agile environment, thus the ability to engage your peers to propose, express and challenge ideas is extremely important; we emphasize the creation and self-maintenance of our documentation, so clarity in the candidate’s ability to express ideas and concepts is required.

Role Essentials

Overall Essentials

• Great interpersonal relations, team cooperation and the ability to communicate with technical and business stakeholders
• Familiarity with emerging technologies and software development best practices
• Ability and desire to quickly evaluate and learn new concepts, technical skills and technologies
• Able to mentor others and lead design efforts
• Experience leading a technical team through all phases of the software development and delivery cycle.

Java Role Essentials

• Bachelor’s Degree or above (Computer Science, Bio Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Engineering or any related field)
• 5+ years experience using Groovy, Java, Scala or another JVM language
• Linux experience (medium to advanced knowledge)
• Experience with JSON, RESTful web services and client-server interactions
• Experience with Spring framework
• Experience with highly scalable web services
• API design and development

Role Desirables

• Experience with Spring Boot
• Environment management/orchestration systems (Kubernetes, etc.)
• Experience with testing frameworks and code quality tools
• Experience with continuous integration environment and tools
• Experience with Oracle, PostgresSQL, Mongo development and optimization
• Enterprise data warehousing design and development