Senior Applications Developer - Backend (REST API)

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Job Description :

Moving our world forward by delivering what matters! UPS is a company with a proud past and an even brighter future. Our values define us. Our culture differentiates us. Our strategy drives us. At UPS we are customer first, people led and innovation driven. UPS’s India based Technology Development Centers will bring UPS one step closer to creating a global technology workforce that will help accelerate our digital journey and help us engineer technology solutions that drastically improve our competitive advantage in the field of Logistics.

‘Future You’ grows as a visible and valued Technology professional with UPS, driving us towards an exciting tomorrow. As a global Technology organization we can put serious resources behind your development. If you are solutions orientated, UPS Technology is the place for you. ‘Future You’ delivers ground-breaking solutions to some of the biggest logistics challenges around the globe. You’ll take technology to unimaginable places and really make a difference for UPS and our customers.

Job Summary

This position provides input, support, and performs full systems life cycle management activities (e.g., analyses, technical requirements, design, coding, testing, implementation of systems and applications software, etc.). He / She participates in component and data architecture design, technology planning, and testing for Applications Development (AD) initiatives to meet business requirements. This position provides input to applications development project plans and integrations. He / She collaborates with teams and supports emerging technologies to ensure effective communication and achievement of objectives. This position provides knowledge and support for applications development, integration, and maintenance. He / She provides input to department and project teams on decisions supporting projects.

Responsibilities :

Senior App Developer with minimum 5+ years’ experience developing applications

Experience creating REST services (APIs) keeping microservice design patterns in mind

Familiarity with Spanner / SQL Server

Experience creating integration services to consume / process data from other systems

Familiarity with GCP PubSub / AMQP is helpful needed

Able to create CI / CD pipeline for the above services  (Jenkins / Terraform)

Able to create relevant documentation for each of the services

Perform design reviews and code reviews

Experience providing real time knowledge transfer to UPS team

Establish UPS best practices in design / coding / testing

Provide best practices for performance tuning

Familiarity with testing, automation, and BDD testing frameworks is desired as well.

Provide best practices for distributed logging and aggregating them to have appropriate instrumentation for all services

Develop microservices keeping in mind best practices for cloud native applications (GCP GKE / OpenShift)

Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s Degree or International equivalent
• Bachelor's Degree or International equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field - Preferred

Employee Type : Permanent

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