Software Engineer Level

Overview

Job Title:
Software Engineer Level - 2

Location:

Newark, NJ (Hybrid)
Duration: 6+ Months (Temp to Hire)

• Build applications ensuring that the code follows latest coding practices and industry standards, using modern design patterns and architectural principles; with guidance, actively code against the roadmap
• 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 an understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide feedback to the team, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Work on problems of diverse scope in which analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript and React, Springboot, Node.js frameworks

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• Leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
• Conceptual understanding of agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• 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

• Programming
  
  Languages:
  
  Python, Java or Java Script; working in distributed systems, object oriented programming, design patterns and design methodology; JAVA services using Spring CLI, Maven, Microservice, multi-threading, Concurrency and parallel processing
• Frameworks:
  React, Springboot, Node.js, Flask, Django
• Data Store:
  No
  
  SQL or Relational Data structures
• Data Streaming: SQS, Kinesis
• 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 Dev Sec Ops ; 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 Git Hub, Bitbucket or Subversion;
  Dev Ops, Jenkins
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC):
  Monitoring and logging techniques
• AWS Core Services across compute, storage, DB, IAM and analytics

• AWS Development
• Architecture Patterns
• Design Thinking
• Financial/Insurance industry knowledge is a plus, not a must
• Experience with agentic frameworks and AI driven development tools is a major plus (Claude Code, Git Hub Copilot etc)