Sr Software Dev Engineer (202735)

AOL is a global media and technology company, representing the best of premium content and innovative platforms. Originally known as America Online, we once connected over 35 million people to the internet, becoming a cultural icon and business behemoth. We recognized digital as the future of media and set out to build a network to enable our company—and our users and partners—to capitalize on this new world. We've always had the drive and innovative thinking to mobilize the future. Now, we have the tools, the reach, and the resources to make this future a reality. We just need YOU!

A Little About Us

AOL, the original trailblazer of online communication, is looking for creative, exciting, deeply technical agents of change who seek to blaze a new trail.

We are looking for exceptional engineers to join us in creating exciting new products for our popular, ever-expanding portfolio.

Our ideal candidate:

The perfect candidate has good interpersonal skills and is a very driven individual with a desire to get things done. Also, the candidate must have the ability to figure things out with minimal guidance and experience working on teams within a very Agile environment with constantly changing priorities.
We are looking for a Full-Stack engineer with keen interest in the Security of the web applications. The candidate shall have experience with J2EE technology, Spring, SpringBoot, Spring Security, Junit, Linux, Tomcat, Apache. Ability to develop and enhance the front ends in Angular , React. Experience working with AWS, Git, Jmeter, Selenium, container technology like docker. The candidate shall be familiar with OWASP security standards, have good understanding of Java coding standards to minimize the security risk. Experience with penetration testing, security code analysis tools will be a solid plus. The candidate will also need to have excellent database (Oracle, MySQL) skills. Finally, the candidate should also have very good debugging skills in terms of tracking down issues.

Responsibilities:

• Design and Code Review to detect security problems

• Develop Personalized applications for Users.

• Create Creative User functionality using AI & ML.

• Develop highly scalable and robust cloud native backend services.

• Static code analysis and library upgrades for the J2EE applications

• Harden the AWS security rules to comply the enterprise standards

• Work on Backend Spring-boot based web service API's for multiple micro services

• Design develop and API for backend services

• Work extensively on integration with multiple vendor API

• Manage database changes, stored procedures on Oracle, Mysql

• Develop unit tests using Mock frameworks like Mockito, JMock and EasyMock

• Work on front end involving Javascript, TypeScript, Angular4, React.

• Write JMeter and Selenium tests for web services and the Web pages test automation.

• Support production deployments and troubleshooting.

• Automate the deployments through CI/CD pipeline with high availability.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience working as a application security engineer

• 2+ years of working with AI & ML technologies.

• 7+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer using J2EE (Spring, SpringBoot)

• 4+ years of experience as a Frontend Engineering (Angular, React, JavaScript)

• Experience with Linux (CentOS or Red Hat)

• Experience with Application Services (apache httpd, apache tomcat based)

• Experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments.

• Experience with containerization technology (Docker)

• QA automation (JMeter, Selenium)

• Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins)

• Experience working with code quality analysis, penetration testing tools

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