Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ECCO Select is recruiting for a Senior Application Developer / DevOps Engineer role on a collaborative software engineering team. The role focuses on application migration and modernization, production support, REST API development, and reliable deployments to Amazon EKS.
Responsibilities
- Leading the modernization and migration of applications—from JBoss to WildFly and onto Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
- Assessing applications, dependencies, and interfaces to identify and mitigate migration risks
- Performing root-cause analysis and troubleshooting production issues, ensuring robust and reliable deployments
- Designing, developing, deploying, and integrating REST APIs, with an emphasis on scalable, maintainable solutions
- Managing Maven build processes, including parent POMs, BOMs, sophisticated dependency management, and plugin configuration
- Applying vulnerability and risk reduction measures by upgrading software libraries, migrating platforms, and updating frameworks
- Utilizing AI tools to streamline daily responsibilities, and developing custom AI-driven skills as required
- Participating in daily standups to share progress, clarify priorities, and proactively resolve obstacles
- Engaging in performance testing and tuning to ensure high-availability and optimal efficiency of critical applications
- Providing mentoring and facilitating effective knowledge-sharing across cross-functional teams
- Championing quality, maintainability, and automated testability throughout the software development lifecycle
Skills
- Expert-level programming with Java and Jakarta EE (Java Enterprise Edition)
- Deep experience with Spring and Spring Boot for modernizing legacy applications
- Advanced MVC and build tool proficiency, specifically with Maven (including parent POMs, BOMs, dependency management, and plugin configuration)
- REST API development and integration expertise
- Advanced troubleshooting abilities for both software and infrastructure issues, particularly in production environments
- Experience with vulnerability and risk remediation including dependency updates, framework upgrades, and cloud platform migrations (notably to Amazon EKS)
- Proven use of AI tools to optimize and automate software engineering tasks, including the development of custom AI capabilities
- Excellent communication, teamwork, and mentorship skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple teams
- Solid critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills applied to daily responsibilities
- Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in enterprise-level software development and engineering roles
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes infrastructure
- Direct JBoss and WildFly administration, configuration, deployment, and troubleshooting expertise
- Strong understanding of resolving JBoss-to-WildFly compatibility concerns during migration projects
- Commitment to code quality, maintainable architecture, and adherence to S.O.L.I.D. design principles
- Passion for process automation and continuous improvement
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical field preferred
- Equivalent experience will be considered
Benefits
- Remote – Kansas City
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