Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Job Description

Publicis Sapient is looking for a Senior Developer, Java to lead a team of top-notch technologists. You will work with global agile teams on a range of technologies to develop, test, and deliver products with quality for leading clients in the US. Working alongside other talented minds with strong technical skills, you’ll solve complex business problems to deliver software applications and services that positively impact our clients and their customers. 

Your Daily Duties and Impact: 

Help define and prioritize Epics and Stories, grooming Stories functionally and help define the acceptance criteria (Functional and Non-Functional/NFRs) and collaborate with stakeholders to shape end-to-end customer requirements 

Lead the technical grooming, brainstorming, and whiteboarding design sessions to define and articulate the solution approaches, identify tasks and estimates, and design and document sub-system(s) along with interfaces and wireframes 

Bring in expertise to optimize and make the relevant design decisions (considering trade-offs) at the sub-system level and question the status quo 

Work with architects and technology managers to define the overall system architecture, standards, and guidelines, helping them with the details of the sub-system specifics 

Proactive about reduction of tech debts, eliminating waste, increasing automation, using productivity tools and dashboards for monitoring and alerts 

Accountable for sub-system design, development, and deployment, quality with an E2E focus, following the engineering best practices, standards 

Resolve problems at an epic level, given the overall business requirements 

Design Sub-systems concentrated on solving business problems; Ensure Implementation is in-line with design and well-integrated with all other dependent sub-systems/systems 

Evangelize adoption of test-first approach and TDD, and apply BDD for Functional and Integration testing; Review Unit and Acceptance Test suites 

Work in the spirit of agile and a product engineering mindset, motivating the sprint outcomes, iteratively and incrementally, following the agile ceremonies 

Use SCM like GIT and advocate the relevant branching strategies for code development 

Use Static Analysis and Profiling tools to ensure high code quality and performance 

Document Code (Doc as Code), Functional Features (BDD), configuration as code, user manuals to help in the support and training 

Collaborate with global teams using integrated tools like Jira, Confluence, etc. 

Perform peer reviews of system/sub-system, module-level design, and implementation and work with SDE-IIIs to establish coding standards 

Practice DevOps mindset, adopting CI/CD to Deliver, deploy and support the implementation from Dev., QA environments to production 

Mentor and guide, regularly evangelize the engineering mindset and culture, 

Share knowledge within peer groups, SDE-Is, ASDEs, while providing and receiving constructive feedback 

Qualifications

Your Technical Skills and Experience: 

5+ years of strong software development experience with expertise in Java 8 and above. Experience with Multi-threading, Collections, and concurrent API. Knowledge and how to apply the latest Java (9) features 

A breadth of concepts, tools, and technologies to address NFRs like security, performance, reliability, maintainability and advocate relevant trade-offs 

Thorough experience in writing high-quality code with full automated unit test coverage (Junit, Mockito, etc.) 

Experience in Microservices, 12-factor methodology, and automated integration testing 

Experience in API management, Swagger 

Deep experience in defining and applying design standards, patterns, quality matrix depending on the solutions 

Working experience with data platforms (relational and/or NoSQL) and messaging technologies 

Excellent OOPs, data structure, algorithm knowledge 

Working experience with common UNIX commands and scripts 

Understanding of HTTPS/TLS, Symmetric/Asymmetric Cryptography, Certificates, SAML, Vaults, Key rotation, OAuth, JWT, MFA, DDOS, etc. 

Experience with containers and virtualization (Docker, Vagrant) 

Experience with distributed, cloud design patterns and architectural styles 

Experience with developing high performance and high scalability enterprise applications using one or more supporting cloud platforms across SaaS and PaaS including Amazon AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform 

Experience practicing infra as code using tools like terraform, cloud-formation, ansible, etc. 

Ability to set up a CI/CD pipeline and infrastructure from grounds-up (Jenkins, Bamboo) 

Knowledge of load-balancers, CDNs, Edge caching, reverse proxies 

Ability and willingness to learn technologies at pace 

Excellent verbal and written communication 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field 

 

Set Yourself Apart With: 

Experience in one or more front-end development technologies 

Working experience creating high performing applications including profiling and tuning (of those applications to boost performance) 

Knowledge of one or more security or integration framework 

Experience in TDD/BDD 

Experience in Scrum/Agile 

Cloud Certifications at a professional or Architect level 

Willingness to travel 

Additional Information

Pay Range: $140,000 - $152,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work itself.

Benefits of Working Here:

Flexible vacation policy; time is not limited, allocated, or accrued16 paid holidays throughout the yearGenerous parental leave and new parent transition programTuition reimbursement Corporate gift matching program 

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or you may call us at +1-617-621-0200.