Junior Java Engineer San Jose, CA (or) Scottsdale, AZ 6-12 months Contract (may go for long term) Openings: 20 HACKER RANK TEST REQUIRED Your day to day: • Work within a team of highly talented engineers, products, and architects to design and develop a highly scalable and configurable Identity Platform. • You will be involved in all aspects of the project life cycle, from the initial kickoff through the requirements analysis, design, and implementation. • Must be a self-starter, work independently or as a team member, and have strong communication skills in interfacing with business partners and Technology. • You are required to build domain knowledge for all channels that we support at the Identity platform. • Highly analytical, innovative, and able to think strategically and develop comprehensive detailed specifications. • Highly effective at working in cross-functional groups and getting results in matrix organizations. • Experience in engineering support of a product through a PDLC. Working knowledge of finance industry standards and practices is preferred. What do you need to bring: • 5 years of experience in software development. • Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures, knowledge of object-oriented design, Design Patterns, and multi-threaded programming • Strong OOP skills, with the ability to analyze requirements and transform them into scalable software designs. • Experience with HTTP, and REST APIs and competent designing and building web services/microservices in a commercial setting. • Competent in design/implementation for reliability, availability, scalability, and performance. • Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and analytical skills. • Hands-on Java Programming Expertise (Core Java, J2EE, Spring framework) • Hands-on Building Restful Services. • Follow coding and design best practices • Experience working on SQL, and NoSQL solutions with a clear understanding of the pros and cons of both relational & free form databases. • Knowledge and a particular interest in issues related to large-scale distributed stream processing, real-time computation systems • Ability to determine the impact of architectural solutions and come up with recommendations • Design, architect and build data systems and pipelines • Ability to navigate organizational boundaries and work fairly independently with limited handholding • Exhibit one team behavior and work with several stakeholders and team members cohesively. Rate: 50/hr