Client Industry: Banking/Financial Services Pay Rate: $68.00/hour Location: Plano, TX (Hybrid, 3 days onsite per week) Employment Type: W2 Contract Duration: 12 months Description: Job Description: This Core Java Developer is responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the role include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. This is a hands-on development role which will leverage and utilize many of the latest and cutting-edge technologies. Ideal candidate with have extensive API development experience and demonstrated success building APIs for large, complex and interdependent systems. APIs will be scalable, reusable, system agnostic and will simplify the offerings for systems. Responsibilities: • Build quality, well thought out APIs that are scalable and reusable by multiple calling systems • Work around various platforms and understand the unique needs for each back end and front end system • Assist partner teams in adopting and consuming new APIs • Creating integration patterns for existing service providers (REST) and exposing those services via various API gateways Building Java modules that are run as a batch / server side components Required Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, the candidate must have the following minimum experience: • 8 years of demonstrated experience designing, developing and testing real-world, enterprise applications • 5 years of hands-on Java experience, including analysis, design and testing • 5 years of experience using Spring framework (all modules), Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Test Framework, Spring RESTful services, Transaction Management, Spring Annotations. • 5 years of experience developing and consuming web services using SOAP or REST • 5 years of experience using JPA / Hibernate and also developing complex queries using native / HQL • 5 years of relational database experience with a solid understanding of SQL and modeling concepts • Experience using Scrum and following Agile best practices • Web UI development would be desired. Working experience with UI technologies like HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS would be and added advantage • 3 Years of working knowledge of Infrastructure for a typical web application (web servers, app servers, Configurations etc….) • Experience working in an Agile team is a must-have • Demonstrating strong communication is an absolute must-have • Experience with Mulesoft is also an added advantage • Experience building cloud native applications deployed via openshift and building containerized services is a BIG advantage