Full stack Engineer (Java) - Contract- Insurance- Canto- 65k
Summary
Contract full-stack engineer role in Hong Kong for an insurance client (via recruiter Argyll Scott): designing, building, testing, and maintaining business applications with Java/Spring Boot and Node.js backends, React/Angular frontends, SQL/NoSQL databases, Docker/Kubernetes, and Azure messaging/CI tooling. Cantonese appears required ("Canto" in title).
Summary
The main function of a Full Stack Engineer is to design, develop, implement, test, and maintain business and computer applications software or specialized utility programs, including mainframe and client/server applications, and major enhancements of existing systems.
Job Responsibilities
- Fine-tune and improve a variety of sophisticated software implementation projects.
- Gather and analyze system requirements, document specifications, and develop software solutions to meet client needs and data.
- Analyze and review enhancement requests and specifications.
- Implement system software and customize it to client requirements.
- Prepare detailed software specifications and test plans.
- Code new programs to client specifications and create test data for testing.
- Modify existing programs to new standards and conduct unit testing of developed programs.
- Create migration packages for system testing, user testing, and implementation.
- Provide quality assurance reviews.
- Perform post-implementation validation of software and resolve any bugs found during testing.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field is required.
- 5–10 years of experience required.
- A solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design.
- Large systems software design and development experience.
- Experience performing in-depth troubleshooting and unit testing with both new and legacy production systems.
- Experience in programming, problem diagnosis, and resolution.
Technical Requirements
- Frontend: React, Angular, strong JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5/CSS3.
- Backend: Node.js, Java (Spring Boot), microservices design experience.
- API Development: RESTful APIs, API versioning, authentication/authorization.
- Databases: SQL (PolarDB for PostgreSQL, PolarDB for Oracle, SQL Server), MongoDB, Redis.
- Storage: Azure Blob Storage, OSS.
- Event Usage: Azure Service Bus, RocketMQ.
- Containers and Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes.
- CI/CD: GitHub, Jenkins, or equivalent.
- Testing: Unit, integration, and end-to-end testing practices.
- Observability: Logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting in production.