Software Development Engineer

About AppDirect

About You

What You'll Do And How You'll Make An Impact

• Lead simple projects independently and begin contributing to medium-complexity projects.
• Take initiative and execute ideas that positively impact the team, occasionally leading small initiatives.
• Communicate effectively within your team, across projects, and with cross-functional partners.
• Deliver complete, high-quality products on time, while identifying gaps in requirements or implementation plans.
• Proactively anticipate problems, recognize barriers, and collaborate with internal and cross-functional teams to resolve them.
• Value robust, sensible design and clean, maintainable code; advise others on boundary and negative test cases.
• Mentor junior team members on writing testable code and consistently write comprehensive tests for your own work.
• Make informed decisions about when to use unit, integration, or end-to-end testing.
• Consistently deliver systems and features that provide meaningful value to customers and other teams.
• Raise potential delivery or timeline issues early, without fear of blame, and contribute through detailed code reviews and documentation of best practices.
• Collaborate closely with product management, design, and sales teams to build impactful solutions.
  

What We’re Looking For

• 3-5 years of experience developing in Java with a proven track record of delivering end-to-end solutions from scratch.
• Strong proficiency in Core Java and frameworks such as Spring Framework, J2EE, or Reactor. Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, and design patterns.
• Experience building and maintaining REST APIs and working with microservice architectures.
• Hands-on experience with HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, and TypeScript (ReactJS/Redux is a plus). Familiarity with Node.js and frameworks like Express.
• Proficiency with databases such as MySQL and MongoDB. Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and messaging systems like Kafka.
• Strong background in testing, including unit testing with JUnit, integration testing, and performance testing.
• Experience working in Agile development environments and collaborating across teams.
• Knowledge of scalability, performance engineering, and application security best practices is a plus.
• We value engineers who enjoy building production-grade code, supporting it once live, and are comfortable refactoring and exploring new technologies. Commitment to writing clean, testable, and maintainable code is essential.