Java Developer - Backend Services

Java Engineer

Java Developer

Johnson Controls is searching for a highly skilled and experienced Java Developer to work on the design and construction of JCI’s internal and customer portals. The ideal candidate will have an in-depth understanding of how to translate complex product requirements into an elegantly coded, usable, scalable, extensible, and maintainable web and mobile application.

The Java Developer will be working in an agile environment, with both onshore and offshore teammates, as well as with our leadership team, using iterative and cutting-edge development methods.

Responsibilities

The Java Developer will design and build robust, elastic, and maintainable back-end services for complex web and mobile software applications. The applicant will be leading an offshore and onshore team. He must be a self-starter having a thorough understanding of REST and SOAP services, RDBMS systems and SQL, design patterns, and deployment strategies.

Candidates will collaborate with a UI/UX Lead, Product Owner, Solutions Delivery Lead, and Solutions Architect to plan and coordinate efforts. Candidates will evaluate user requirements, in collaboration with the Product Owner, engineers, and others. The Back-End Developer will be expected to make recommendations on interacting with legacy programs, create design documents to illustrate software components, provide best practices on back-end service construction, review source code delivered by developers, create and update database schemas and queries, and be able to read and interpret a current code base.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required, specializing in computer science, engineering, or related field

• Minimum 3+ years of experience building back-end services for web and mobile applications using Spring and Spring Boot technologies

• Experience with Microsoft Azure and App Services

• Strong experience with developing back-end services for complex web and mobile applications using onshore and offshore developers

• Strong experience in design, construction, and deployment of REST and SOAP services

• Strong experience with creating and running SQL queries against relational databases (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL)

• Strong knowledge of design patterns and coding best practices

• Experience with Azure pipelines and Azure DevOps

• Experience with Jira

• Experience with Agile/Scrum development practices and concepts

• Experience with developing SaaS applications

• Experience with troubleshooting and solving application memory and performance issues

• Database schema design and PL/SQL experience, a strong plus

• Experience with WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Application Server, and WebSphere Content Manager, a plus

• Experience using Jira and Confluence

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills

• Experience and desire to work within a fast-paced, iterative development environment