Senior Java Developer

Who We Are – MassMutual Romania

MassMutual Romania is a technology partner of MassMutual, a leading financial services company in the U.S., with a more than 170-year legacy. Established in 2020, the Romanian company is building an in-house team passionate about technology and innovation. We have expertise in software development, data science, and a wide range of technologies. With offices in Bucharest and Cluj, and team members across the country, MassMutual Romania develops technological solutions that help MassMutual deepen its digital capabilities and accelerate its growth in a digital-first world.

Job Description

Reporting to: Director, Systems Analysis

Department name: ETX Corporate Technology - Regulatory HR Technology

Location: Romania

Key Goal: Responsible for core technical development, support and execution of all Compliance products. Efforts include analysis, design, development, testing, migration to production and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Works closely with both business and technical stakeholders
• Operates independently on multiple project tasks
• Writes code in Java using the Spring framework with Spring Boot
• Builds web services, microservices, and APIs as Spring Boot applications
• Participates in code reviews and manages deployments to Kubernetes (on AWS EKS) via CI/CD
• Coordinates teams in ensuring development and support of a portfolio of applications
• Participate in all phases of project planning, execution and testing
• Produces application artifacts per SDLC, Agile and DevOps audit requirements 
• Implements high-quality, cost-effective and sustainable solutions. Meet today's needs with the potential to scale or adapt to the needs of the future/new emerging technologies

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering/development experience
• Able to work independently and in small to medium size groups of other developers
• Proficiency with Java, including Spring / Spring Boot
• Experience using Maven, POM files, dependency management, etc.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
• Experience building web services / microservices / APIs
• Experience with JavaScript framework
• Working knowledge of CI/CD practices
• Experience with Atlassian suite, mainly JIRA and Confluence
• Significant experience with various AGILE methodologies, and exposure to DevOps
• Legacy tech stack: Struts 2, JSP, JavaScript with AJAX, HTML, XML, Java 6, IBM DB2.

Preferred

• Experience designing and leading the development of one or more complex corporate technology solutions.
• Experienced using DevOps to develop and migrate application code to production.
• Experience working in a large corporate environment with strong knowledge of SDLC, development patterns, and best practices.

Candidate Competencies 

• Ability to apply technical and business knowledge across multiple business functions.
• Ability to work in close collaboration with stakeholders, project/program managers, business analysts, business users, developers, and testers to optimize the quality of the developed product.
• Skilled in interacting with both onshore and offshore team members.
• Ability to effectively capture development tasks and estimate the time to complete the tasks.
• Ability to communicate clearly and to simplify complex topics for a wide range of audiences (both written and verbal)
• Ability to work through complex issues and develop solutions, in time-critical situations.
• Ability to develop a strong understanding of business processes and functional requirements and the skill to be able to translate those requirements into succinct functional / technical design specifications and development tasks in JIRA with subsequent unit test creation and execution to successfully meet acceptance criteria and documenting the results while providing close oversight of specifications and results.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and platforms.
• Ability to adhere to project schedules and meet deadlines in the execution of job responsibilities. 

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