Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Full Stack Developer

12 month contract for a Software Engineer role with a leading client in Chicago, IL. APPLY NOW!!!!

Title:

Software Engineer

Location:

Chicago, IL

Workplace type:
Hybrid (near west loop)
but will be fully onsite as soon as a few weeks in to the contract (M-F 40 hour work week)

Type:
Contract

Pay: $70-71.77/hour on w2

Length: 12 months

Screenings: no tech, full panel drug and background once hired

+optional benefits, long term contract with ability to extend or convert to full time

• Education & Experience
  
  Required:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in computer science or electrical engineering or related field, Plus 10+ years exp OR Master’s degree plus 8+ years exp OR No degree, they must have 15+ years’ experience in this capacity
• Experience in technical leadership
• 10+ years or more of software development experience or at least eight years of experience with master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 10+ years or more of experience in designing and developing software applications in Java or at least eight years of experience in Java with master’s degree in computer science or related field.
• At least three year of experience developing in AWS: cloud formation templates, deploying ECS clusters, Lambda, Fargate, Amazon Elastic Search, S3. Strong understanding of IAM roles and policies.
• Proven experience in following, Designing, developing, deploying and maintaining software ee years of experience building and developing with Cloud Technologies (such as AWS, Azure, GCP) Developing software applications using relational and Nosql databases. Application architectural patterns, such as MVC, Microservices, Event-driven, etc. Deploying software using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Azure Devops etc. Deploying and maintaining software using public clouds such as AWS or Azure.
  
  Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum)
• Strong understanding and/or experience in some of the following, Batch or stream processing systems such as AWS SQS, AWS SNS, Kinesis. Experience designing well-defined Restful APIs Hands on experience with API tools such as Swagger, Postman and Assertible Test driven development and behavior driven development. Hands on experience with testing tools such as Selenium and Cucumber and their integration into CI/CD pipelines.
  
  Data stores such as Dynamo
  
  DB, Mongo
  
  DB, Cassandra, Redis, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Oracle.
• Must demonstrate solid knowledge of computer science fundamentals like data structures and algorithms.

Soft Skills

• (Required)
  Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
• Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
• Education without dates will not be considered.
• Candidate with no experience with clout will NOT be considered.
• Resume shows a lot of front end and no back end exp, they will not qualify.
• If resume does not have the candidate’s current location of residence, they will be DQ.
• If candidate(s) do not currently reside in local area but open to relocate on their dime, that needs to be clear on the resume.
• Choppy tenure/ consistent job hopping

The main function of a software engineer is to apply the principles of computer science and mathematical analysis to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers work. A typical software engineer researches, designs, develops and tests operating systems-level software, compilers, and network distribution software for medical, industrial, military, communications, aerospace, business, scientific and general computing applications.

Job Responsibilities:

Review and approve the modification of existing databases and database management systems. Instruct staff to write and code logical and physical database descriptions and specify identifiers of database to management system. Direct database development and approve project scope and limitations. Review project requests describing database user needs to estimate time and cost required to accomplish project. Plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure.

Approve, schedule, plan and supervise the…