Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

As a Software Development Engineer- Java, you possess strong technical skills, developing software applications and services that make life easier for customers.
You will work with an agile team to develop, test, and maintain digital business applications. You will get an opportunity to work with industry leading clients and global teams to solve complex business problems and build your skills on the full stack of application development technologies

• You will work in the spirit of agile & a product engineering mindset - delivering the sprint outcomes, iteratively & incrementally, following the agile ceremonies
• You will groom the stories functionally & help define the acceptance criteria (Functional & Non-Functional/NFRs) collaborating actively with stakeholders - locally & in client org., understanding end-to-end customer requirements
• You will actively contribute in technical grooming, brainstorming & whiteboarding design sessions to define & articulate the solution approaches, to identify tasks & estimates, and to document the module/sub-system design with their interfaces & wireframes
• You will have breadth of concepts, tools & technologies to address NFRs like security, performance, reliability, maintainability and understand the need for trade-offs
• You will bring in expertise to optimize and make the relevant design decisions (considering trade-offs) at the module / components level
• You will be a polyglot with a PE mindset – Open & Curious, learning & adopting new languages, platforms & toolkits constantly
• You will help evangelize and inculcate the engineering mindset and culture, share knowledge within Peer groups & ASDEs; Provide and receive constructive feedback
• You will have a continuous improvement mindset working on opportunities to shift left; Proactive about reduction of tech. debts, eliminating waste, increasing automation, using the right productivity tools, understanding client business, using dashboards for monitoring & alerts
• You will be accountable for development, unit testing of features with an E2E focus, following the engineering best practices, standards:

• Solve problems at a story level, given the stories and system design
• Design Sub-systems/Modules, Ensure Implementation in-line with design & Integration with all dependent systems/modules; Focused on solving business problems.
• Write Unit & Acceptance Testcases, adopting a Test First approach applying TDD; while using BDD for Functional & Integration testing
• Manage Tech Debts
• Use SCM like GIT; Understand & adopt different branching strategies for code development;
• Use integrated tools like Jira, Confluence etc., along with other collaboration tools across geo locations
• Perform Peer Reviews of sub-system, component level design & implementation, following the established coding standards
• Use Static Analysis & Profiling tools to ensure high Code Quality & Performance
• Practice the DevOps mindset, adopting CI/CD to Deliver, Deploy & Support the implementation from Dev., QA environments all the way to Production
• Document Code (Doc as Code), Functional Features (BDD), User Manuals to help in the support & training

Qualifications

• US citizen
• 7+ years of professional work experience building large scale, large volume services & distributed apps., taking them through production and post-production life cycles
• Migrate, refactor, lift and shift application components from on-prem to AWS
• Familiar with Agile development and delivery
• Provide on-going support inclusive of AWS onboarding, issue resolution and enhancements by working collaboratively with infrastructure & PS teams.
• Assist team lead with estimation of releases, application testing & validation
• Use more than one programming language with expertise in at-least one; Ex:
  • Memory Management, GC, Templates/Generics, Closures etc.
  • Multi-Threading, Sync/A-Sync.; Blocking/Non-Blocking execution styles
• Practice Imperative, Functional Programming styles
• You have experience with Core Java 8+ and above
• Prior AWS development experience & developer certification
• AWS Oracle RDS, EC2, Lambda, QuickSight, Cloudwatch
• AWS DevSecOps tools experience
• API management, User authentication and authorization frameworks and tools
• You are a problem solver choosing the relevant data structures, algorithms considering the tools for Time & Space Complexity
• You apply SOLID, DRY design principles, design patterns & practice Clean Code
• You are an expert at String Manipulation, Data/Time Arithmetic, Collections & Generics
• You practice & guide on handling failures à Error Management & Exception handling
• You build reliable & high-performance apps leveraging Eventing, Streaming, Concurrency, Multi-Threading & Synchronization libraries and frameworks
• You design and build microservices from ground up, considering all NFRs & applying DDD, Bounded Contexts
• You use one or more databases (RDBMS or NoSQL) based on the needs
• You deploy to production, troubleshoot problems & provide live support
• You understand the significance of security aspects & compliance to data, code & application security policies; You write secure code to prevent known vulnerabilities; You understand HTTPS/TLS, Symmetric/Asymmetric Cryptography, Certificates
• You use one or more Web Application Frameworks
  • Spring or Spring Boot or Micronaut (Java)
  • Flask or Django (Python)
  • Express or Meteor or Koa (Node)
  • Asp.net MVC, WebApi or Nancy (.Net)
• You use one or more messaging platforms (e.g. JMS/RabbitMQ/Kafka/Tibco/Camel)
• You use Mocks & Stubs & related frameworks (Moq)
• You use logging frameworks like Log4j, NLog etc.
• You use build tools like MsBuild, Maven, Gradle, Gulp etc.
• You understand and use containers, virtualization
• You use proactive monitoring & alerting, dashboards
• You use Logging/Monitoring solutions (Splunk, ELK, Grafana)

Set Yourself Apart With:

• AWS Certification
• Experience in one or more of front-end development technologies
• Knowledge of one or more security or integration framework
• Java EE, EJB, Websphere Application Server, Hibernate, Rational Application Developer
• Oracle/PL/SQL
• Familiarity with UI frameworks like JSF, JavaScript, jQuery
• Experienced with capital markets businesses, fixed Income industry knowledge

Travel:

• At least 2 days/week to NYC downtown

Additional Information

Pay Range: $75,000 - $146,000 USD

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

Benefits of Working Here:

• Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued
• 16 paid holidays throughout the year
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Tuition reimbursement 
• Corporate gift matching program 

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at hiring@publicissapient.com or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.