The University of British Columbia (UBC) is hiring a Software Engineering Senior Advisor to lead the design and development of the next generation of RESTful APIs and event-driven microservices. In this senior role, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for crafting robust solutions in a distributed environment, working closely with developers, principal engineers, and business stakeholders to ensure requirements are met.
What You'll Do
- Lead the design and development of RESTful APIs and event-driven services in a distributed environment.
- Be hands-on in designing and developing robust solutions, considering scale, security, reliability, and cost.
- Support product delivery partners in the successful build, test, and release of solutions.
- Work with distributed requirements and technical stakeholders to complete shared design and development.
- Support the full software lifecycle of design, development, testing, and support for technical delivery.
- Work with both onsite and offshore team members to define testable scenarios based on requirements.
- Be part of a fast-moving team using agile methodologies and the latest open-source technologies.
- Understand the business and application architecture end to end.
- Solve problems by crafting software solutions using maintainable and modular code.
- Participate in daily team standups and code reviews to ensure code quality.
- Provide impact analysis for new requirements and be responsible for low-level design.
- Act in a senior capacity, potentially leading scrum teams, being accountable for projects, and mentoring junior team members.
What We're Looking For
- 13-16 years of relevant software engineering experience.
- Proven experience with architecture, design, and development of large-scale enterprise application solutions.
- College degree (Bachelor) in a related technical or business field, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience with vendor management in an onshore/offshore model.
- Expertise designing and developing applications using Java 1.8 and Spring Boot, deployed on cloud infrastructure.
- Solid experience with messaging middleware, especially Kafka.
- Strong understanding of OOP, Design Patterns, and Data Structures.
- Experience developing high-quality designs and building multithreaded applications focusing on asynchronous parallel processing.
- Experience with NoSQL databases like MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
- Extensive hands-on experience with the AWS SDK and proficiency in leveraging AWS services.
- Proficient with the SAM (Serverless Application Model) framework and Lambda functions using Java.
- Proficient in internal AWS integration using Lambda with services like Event Bridge, S3, SQS, and SNS.
- Must have GitHub and CI/CD experience.
- Good knowledge in Healthcare and Pharmacy Benefit Management.
- A recognized internal expert for the most complex software engineering assignments.
Nice to Have
- Industry certifications such as PMP, Scrum Master, or Six Sigma Green Belt.
Technical Stack
- Languages & Frameworks: Java, Spring Boot, Serverless
- Infrastructure & Cloud: AWS, Lambda, OpenShift
- Data & Messaging: Kafka, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, S3
- Integration & Tools: SQS, SNS, Event Bridge, GitHub
Team & Environment
You will work with a collaborative team including onsite Scrum Masters, Product Managers, QA, and Developers, as well as offshore QA team members.
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