Senior Engineer - Java API Development

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing...

• Understand existing ecosystem, Implement features, functions, and enhancements
• Designing, developing and maintaining software system by evaluating and analyzing the product requirements.
• Translating designs into high quality code, writing unit tests and release to production
• Follow and improve process, including the code review
• Ensuring application development sprint cycle is on track and adjusting the plan to meet release timelines and adapting to an agile environment
• Acting independently and displaying the excellent collaboration within and between various teams
• Understanding the underlying domain and build domain knowledge.  
• Building the reusable code and libraries for future use.

What we’re looking for...

You are self-driven with experience in design and implementation of complex and distributed systems, particularly in building high-performance backend and/or frontend frameworks. You have a passion for seeking engineering excellence and adopting new technologies. You are not afraid to drive for success by working with multi-functional teams.

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Experience in developing software products.
• Experience with agile software development.
• Knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines.
• Working proficiency in development toolsets.
• Experience with Java/J2EE, Springboot/MVC, JMS & Kafka.
• Developing front end website architecture.
• Experience with developing frameworks such as ReactJS or AngularJS.
• Proficiency with front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Designing and developing APIs.
• Knowledge of Database (Oracle), Linux/Unix, NOSQL DB (e.g. MongoDB, HBase), caching mechanism, Load Balancing, multi-data center architecture.
• Knowledge of Microservice Architecture, Cloud Computing, Docker Containers, Restful API, EKS.
• Familiarity with developing and deploying services in AWS.
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Design, Agile Scrum, Test Driven Development.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Knowledge of Linux and troubleshooting.
• Good writer and verbal communication, listening, negotiation and presentation skills.
• Knowledge/Exposure/Expertise in Go Programming Language.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

Scheduled Weekly Hours

Diversity and Inclusion

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