Full Stack Developer IV

Job Title: Full Stack Developer IVlocation: Richfield, MN-HybridDuration: 12 Months Contract  
Interview: F2F Onsite Interview. 
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What you will do as a Sr. Software Engineer:
• Build high-performance, highly available and scalable distributed systems
• Build the simplest possible thing that will continually deliver working software to customers
• UI development, ReactJS, Redux, Jest, 
• Service development, REST, HTTP, Java, Spring, Groovy, Spock, NoSQL (Cassandra), Oracle, XML, JSON
• Prioritize, communicate clearly, and consistently deliver results
• TDD, paired programming, code reviews, and aggressive refactoring
• Work with open source software and tools (e.g. Spring, Apache, Tomcat, Jenkins, etc.)
• Share knowledge with peers to lessen knowledge silos, help peers grow and make the team better.
Position Summary/Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced full stack Senior Software Engineer who wants to work on a cross-functional agile development team. The person hired for this position will partner with product management to understand business pain points then design and build new solutions. Our application stack includes (among other things) ReactJS, Groovy, Java, Spring, Cassandra, and Oracle. We also stream data to Google Cloud Platform for analytics and BI dashboard reporting using BigQuery and Google Data Studio. In addition to designing and building new software the person hired for this position will work with other engineers in a DevOps manner to support CI/CD tooling and provide second tier production support of the team's applications.
Skills Overview:What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?Soft Skills:
• Courage to communicate in an honest and direct manner
• Willing to accept decisions that depart from your opinion
• Able to draft user stories and acceptance criteria
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated
• Excellent organizational skills
Minimum Requirements:
• 3 or more years of experience as a software engineer, coding new software
• 3 or more years of experience coding in Java, Groovy, or other object oriented language
• 1 or more years of experience with Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, and/or other aspects of Extreme Programming (XP)
• 1 or more years of experience working on an Agile software development team
What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?
• Knowledge of modern deployment, CI/CD, and configuration management tools
• Ability and aptitude to dig into and solve challenging problems and proactively avoid problems
• Experience in building web UI with ReactJS, or other JavaScript frameworks
• Scripting, automation, and troubleshooting of processes and systems; scripting in the shell and at least one of the following: Ruby, Perl, or Python
• Google Cloud Platform Big Query, Google Data Studio, or other BI tooling
• Networks, security, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, and other infrastructure components
• Legacy replacement
Interview Process Overview:
We would like them to answer some pre-screen questions.
For those we choose, I will do a pre-screen interview
The final interview will be some questions and a coding exercise.
Here are the pre-screen questions:
1. This is an extreme Programming (XP) team. Along with other XP practices, all production code is developed using pair programming and TDD.
What about this excites you?
What about this worries you?
How much pairing would you do in a typical day of your ideal job?
2.Refactoring
What causes you to refactor?
How often would you refactor?
How do you decide/prioritize what to refactor first, second, third, etc?
3.How do you confirm the quality of the software you write?
4. Describe how Test Driven Development fits into your engineering habits.