Duration: Longterm
- Strong Database modeling experience, creation of tables, columns, PKs, FKs, table relationships and indexes.
- Writing Stored Procedures and SQL Functions.
- Hands-on SQL experience – writing queries and understanding query optimization, using aggregated functions, sorting, grouping. Transact SQL, MS SQL Server 2016.
- Java 1.7-1.8.
- Spring Core, Spring MVC, Aspects, Spring Configuration, Interceptors, Argument Resolvers, Views, Code Generation, Annotations, Binders, Views.
- Junit, Mocks – hands-on experience in creating automated test cases and using one of popular Mocking libraries.
- JSON, AJAX.
- JSP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery. Ability to build html pages using JSP Custom tags, configure Page Layouts using Javascript and utilize JQuery plugins for rich user interfaces.
- Understanding of a Build process and experience with ANT scripts.
- Tomcat, Apache.
- Experience with Source Control Systems.
Desired skills:
- Struts.
- Experience with configuring and maintaining Clustered Applications in Apache/Tomcat for Production Environment.
- Experience with configuring and maintaining AWS, EC2, RDS, Elasticache services for Production Environment.
- Experience with Application Caching tools like EhCache and Redis.
- DevOps concepts, Build Server Configuration, Application Deployment and Code Release. Automated Builds to AWS is a big plus.
- Experience with Application Performance Monitoring, Analysis, Management and Optimization Tools.
- UI/UX, Usability skills, ability to analyze and model user actions and design simple and efficient user interfaces.
Few candidates we interviewed earlier for Senior Engineer position had strong resumes with rich sets of skills, however some of those key skills were not proven during the interview, in one instance the candidate wasn’t even familiar with some things written in his own resume.
It’s also hard to rely on job titles in their resumes since some companies might rate Senior Level Engineer’s responsibilities differently. But in general, Senior Engineer should have a broad expertise in many areas from lower DB design all the way to UI interactions with JS components so he/she can efficiently utilize this experience in overall system analysis, design and implementation.
So far we have not seen a real Senior Level candidate yet among those we interviewed and we hope you guys will find one.