Software Engineer IV, Java

Reporting to the Manager of Software Engineering, the Software Engineer IV is responsible for wearing multiple hats such as viewing the architectural approach with a critical eye, making implementation decisions, and proactively communicating this with the team. Effectively serving as a technical lead for their team and/or feature(s)

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Serve as a team or feature's technical team lead by understanding the approach and design decisions and creating an implementation that supports overall design.
• Mentor more junior engineers through tight collaboration and pair programming as needed.
• Partner with external teams such as AppSec and Platform Engineering as the point of contact for feature work hand-off and ensure their deliverables meet team delivery guidelines.
• Actively participate in Agile development lifecycle, including planning and grooming, stand-up, and retrospectives
• Perform feature code reviews, give feedback, and validate changes.
• Will own (along with team) all aspects of the application, including quality, performance testing, and production support.
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required

• Full stack Java (core, concurrency, threading) development experience, from backend systems to user interfaces as necessary
• Knowledge and experience using Spring, dependency injection, Hibernate, JQL, Spring Cloud, RESTful APIs, microservices, some form of workflow engine.
• Knowledge and experience using AWS services, such as S3, RDS, SQS, etc.
• Knowledge and experience using relational database systems, especially PostgreSQL
• Ability to comfortably develop code for and debug remote systems
• Can collaborate with others; capable of working constructively with a group of people that have different skill sets and interests
• Ability to take ownership of and effectively communicate implementation decisions at various levels
• Ability to work independently and take initiative as a member of a dynamic and fast moving team
• Understanding of OKTA or other SSO providers; oAuth2, openId, Identity management
• Understanding RFC822+, the parts of emails and the flow of email across networks.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred

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The above statements are neither intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be a listing of all of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job. This job description is not a contract of employment, either express or implied. Employment with Cofense will be voluntarily entered into and your employment is considered at will. Cofense reserves the right to alter the job description at any time without notice.

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