Job Description

• Collaborate with Product Managers, UX Designers, Engineers and QA to design, develop and deploy new platform features and functionality for our SaaS product

• Contribute to the design and build evolution of the platform, ensuring it remains scalable, reliable, and easy to use.

• Development of data retrieval stored procedures using SQL Server

• Be involved and take ownership of end-to-end delivery – from solution design, estimation, development, testing and deployment

• Uphold quality standards including reliability, efficiency, security, maintainability and usability by applying best practice processes, methodologies and tools

• Contribute to engineering discussions across our platform

• Collaborate with senior business stakeholders to understand requirements, build applications, present solutions and make adjustments

• Contribute to solution design and upgrade of new and existing systems

• Participate in peer reviews, ensure the quality of code produced, promote coding standards, test coverage, and design

• Integrate frontend packages to build dynamic and interactive tables and graphs with a dashboard

• Create user friendly functional designs provided to you by the business to build dashboards or update existing projects

• Develop your skills to enhance or understand data analysis techniques to then be reflected via your dashboards

• Contribute to team projects and create, explore, improve and implement ideas

• As always follow all development standards – develop, test and implement clean, readable and high quality code

Skills and Experience

• 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

• Knowhow of Java concurrency patterns

• Proficiency in Web frameworks like Struts and Spring

• Basic 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, AWT according to project requirements

• Ability to write clean, readable Java code

• Basic knowhow of class loading mechanism in Java

• Experience in handling external and embedded databases

• 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

• Understanding of building tools like Ant, Maven, Gradle, etc

• Expertise in continuous integration

• Other required skills of java developer include the basic knowledge of:

• JavaServer pages (JSP) and servlets

• Service-oriented architecture

• Web Technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS, JQuery

• Markup Languages such as XML, JSON

• Abstract classes and interfaces

• Constructors, lists, maps, sets

• File IO and serialization

• Exceptions

• Generics

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

• Multithreading and Synchronization

Favourable Criteria

Applicants who meet the following criteria will also be considered favourably:

• Experience in edtech

• Have past exposure to development in a consulting environment

• Hands-on development experience using any of the following: Java Scripts, AWS