Java Software Engineer (API & Streaming)

Who We Are – MassMutual Romania

MassMutual Romania – in partnership with MassMutual in the United States – will help shape a culture of innovation and to create the digital products and technology solutions that help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. Positioning MassMutual for its next 20 million customers and remaining innovative in a digital-first world led to the creation of MassMutual Romania in 2020. With offices in Bucharest and Cluj, MassMutual Romania was established to build an in-house team with expertise in application development and support, quality assurance and data science. For 170 years, MassMutual has put its customers at the heart of what it does by providing holistic financial solutions, guidance, and education on their terms. Its long-term strategy helps ensure that policyowners and their loved ones can rely on them to be there when they need them most. If this vision excites you, come join us and become a MassMutual Romania team member. This is a great opportunity to be part of the transformational journey at MassMutual Romania. As we continue to grow our business and look for new ways to engage with customers, technology will be one of the most important enablers to our success and you can be a part of it.

The Opportunity

Do you want to be part of a team that encourages your growth, supports your ambitions, and makes it a priority for you to reach your goals? Is helping people part of who you are? At MassMutual Romania, we help millions of people find financial freedom, offer financial protection and plan for the future. We do this by building trust with our customers by being knowledgeable problem solvers and prioritize their needs above all else. We Live Mutual. If this sounds like a fit, come join our team.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain APIs & Kafka Integrations

• Supporting on premise and cloud platform environments such as AWS

• Develop, integrate and test run time execution of APIs

• Analyze performance requirements & performance of current APIs and actively remediate tech debt

with those.

• Assist in production setup, monitoring and roll out to partners

• Active “developer on call” to support maintenance and issue remediation of the APIs: Debugging

existing software and correcting defects

• Contribute to the conceptual and physical design of application integration using APIs and events

• Integrating existing software into new or modified systems or operating environments

• Writing or reviewing software system documentation and ability to share knowledge is a must

• Be able to “debug” a code; critically think to highlight where issues are coming from

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/ business information systems or equivalent educational/

professional experience and/or qualifications with at least 5 years of experience in software

development.

• Java Web applications

• RESTful Services

• Java Message Service (JMS)

• AWS/Microservices.

• Strong SQL Skills.

• Spring Framework knowledge and experience.

• Experience with design/prototyping.

• At least 3 years of experience in developing REST services using Java or Node.js.

• Able to implement processes and troubleshoot to continue to improve operational stability.

• Experience and understanding of Kubernetes (preferred).

• Experience with GitHub or GitLab.

• Experience with generating technical documentation.

• Experience using with Jira and Confluence.

• Agile Methodology - comfortable working in a scrum environment.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Linux Containers (Dockers)

• Experience with design/prototyping

• DevOps experience

• Experience with API Management Suite

• Kafka experience.

Competencies

• Learner – shouldn’t be shy to learn any new technology.

• Quality Focused - should believe in code quality and be able to highlight challenges/issues with

current code.

• Shift left mentality – i.e. quality is owned by the team rather than just a QA tester.

• Clear and effective communication skills - verbal and written.

• Critical Thinking – ability to dive into a problem, dig in to help SDETs and then pull up as needed.

• Ability to visualize the flow of data through a complex application is critical to your success, and to

the team

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