Software Engineer - Java Backend

About the job

The Red Hat Experience Engineering (XE) team is looking for a Software Engineer to join us in Pune, India. In this role, you will help develop the next generation of our industry-leading customer platform. You will contribute value to our customers through the enhancement of both customer and internal systems as part of an agile and globally distributed development team. In this role, you’ll need to be both creative and motivated, proficient in building web applications, and able to work in a fast-paced, distributed environment. As a Software Engineer, you will focus primarily on developing and maintaining web applications using Java and related technologies (and related frameworks). You also need to be proficient at building RESTful or GraphQL APIs.

What you will do?

• Work with the Engineering and Program teams to adapt existing engineering processes and practices, and develop new processes to facilitate a productive development environment

• Work with the development teams to gather information about system APIs and help shape the data that is available for UI consumption

• Work with product managers, business analysts, and other related stakeholders to ensure business requirements and priorities are well understood and communicated to the development team.

• Advocates for code reviews and best practices.

What you will bring?

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a technology-related discipline

• 3+ years of software development experience

• Experience with Java and JEE

• Knowledge of building web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Great communication and collaboration skills, solid attention to detail

• Experience with project & version management tools like JIRA, GitHub, Gerrit

• Problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, including performing root cause analysis

• Experience with production release and continuous integration/continuous deployment.

• Experience with web services, e.g., REST, SOAP, Java Messaging

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience with agile development and open-source projects

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and/or Linux Containers is a plus

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