Sr. Developer, Web Services

About Us:

AAR Corp. (NYSE: AIR) is a global aerospace and defense aftermarket solutions company that employs more than 6,000 people across over 60 sites in over 20 countries. Headquartered in the Chicago, Illinois area, AAR supports commercial and government customers in more than 100 countries through four operating segments:
Parts Supply, Integrated Solutions, Repair and Engineering and Expeditionary Services.

AAR’s purpose is to empower people to build innovative aerospace solutions today so you can safely reach your destination tomorrow. The company’s mission is to go above and beyond to provide value-driven aerospace aftermarket solutions to meet the evolving needs of our customers worldwide. AAR constantly searches for the right thing to do for its customers, employees, partners and for society.

Description

The Senior Web Services Developer will work as a member of a team that designs, develops, tests, troubleshoots, and supports web services developed using modern languages and different frameworks. Thisrole can include but is not limited to creating new web services, invoking external web services, modifying existing web services, fine tuning and configuring existing web services host settings.

What will you be responsible for:

• Design, develop, maintain, and test RESTful or SOAP web services using Java or Python.
• Work with the backend database and UI development teams
• Participate in the implementation of multiple web service applications
• Follow the change management, source code management, CI/CD practices and support the Dev Ops initiatives.
• Participate in all the steps in the software development life cycle to create and modify the software, following Agile methodologies.
• Ensure well-written, testable, and high-quality code is produced.
• Peer review code written by other developers.
• Perform testing of code/projects to ensure accuracy, integrity, and completeness to achieve desired results.
• Resolve issues affecting project scope, quality, effort, risk, and timeline.
• Serve as an API resources for guidance, instruction, and direction to API support staf
  
  All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

What you will need to be successful in this role:

• Experience in at least one of the object-oriented languages (eg, java, C++, Python or C#), and familiar with web framework with these languages (like spring boot for java, flask for python), and use these create backend restful APIs.
• Experience with Docker images, containerize.
• Experience with SQL and NO SQL databases, and familiar ORM mapping tools like hibernate.
• Experience with API security with authentication and authorization like API key, basic authentication, OAuth2, TLS Mutual Authentication, IP restriction.
• Experience with modern CI/CD pipelines using Dev Ops tools
• Team oriented, action oriented, self-motivated, and delivery focused
• Great at organizing, prioritizing, and multitasking
• Strong communication and troubleshooting skills
• Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.) or Bachelor of Science degree (B.S.) from four-year college or university; or eight years related experience and/or training; or 5+ years of work experience in software development fields.

Prefer experiences with the following:

• Database’s CDC (Data change capture), message queue like Kafka, stream process with Apache Fink and Apache spark.
• Micro service architecture, distributed system and event driven architecture.

The rewards of your career at AAR go far beyond just your salary:

• Competitive salary and bonus package
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Generous paid time off program
• Professional development and career advancement opportunities

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach and move about the facility.
• The environmental characteristic for this position is an office setting.
• Candidates should be able to adapt to a traditional business environment.

AAR provides accommodation in accordance with applicable laws…