Cloud Native Java Developer (U.S. remote)

<p style="margin: 0in; line-height: normal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">We are actively hiring <strong>Senior Cloud Native Software Engineer </strong>who are fluent in Java 11+, Spring Boot, Python and AWS tools to serve as a technical resource for developing clean, maintainable code. </span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">About Railroad19:</span></strong></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At Railroad19, Inc, we develop customized software solutions and provide software development services. We’re a specialized team of developers and architects. As such, we only bring an “A” team to the table, through hard work and a desire to lead the industry — this is our company culture — this is what sets Railroad19 apart.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As a Railroad19 employee, you will be part of a company that values your work and gives you the tools you need to succeed. Our headquarters is in Saratoga Springs, New York, but this position is in Mexico City, MX. Railroad19 provides competitive compensation and excellent benefits</span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.25in; line-height: 115%; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Core responsibilities:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Understand our client's fast-moving business requirements.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Negotiate appropriate solutions with multiple stakeholders.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Write and maintain scalable enterprise-quality software.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Build web applications using Spring Boot.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Build Microservices that connect to Oracle and NoSQL databases</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Build software components that integrate with a workflow engine and/or ESB to execute asynchronous business processes.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Manage the complete software development life cycle.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Writing functional and unit tests to maintain code quality.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Work with Jenkins to perform continuous integration.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Collaborate with other teams to deliver a highly performant application that contains few or no defects.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Identify new opportunities, tools, and services to enhance the custom software platform.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Support and troubleshoot issues (process & system), identify root cause, and proactively recommend sustainable corrective actions.</span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Skills & Experience:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Advanced Java development experience (6 or more years)</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Hands-on experience with Java 8-11 (especially streaming collections and functional interfaces)</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Hands-on experience with Spring Boot, and/or Spring Cloud </span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Hands-on experience with Python</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Hands-on experience with AWS as a cloud infrastructure as well as different AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, and SNS</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Hands-on experience with relational databases.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Hands-on experience with SQL, MySQL and Oracle</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Demonstrates willingness to learn new technologies and takes pride in delivering working software.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Excellent oral and written communication skills</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience participating on an agile team.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Is self-directed and can effectively contribute with little supervision.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline; or equivalent work experience</span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Preferred Requirements a PLUS</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Hands-on experience with NoSQL technologies is a plus.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Hands-on experience with AngularJS and/or similar JavaScript frameworks is a plus.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience working with microservice architecture.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience using Elasticsearch is a plus.</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience with AWS Kinesis is a plus</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience working within a Continuous Integration workflow</span></li> <li style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 8pt 24px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience acting as a technical lead is a plus.</span></li> </ul> <p></p><p><br></p><p></p> <div>$120,000 - $150,000 a year</div>

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