J2EE Software Development Project for a new startup (J2EE, Spring MVC, REST Web Services)

IN ORDER FOR YOUR BID TO BE CONSIDERED, WE NEED YOU TO ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS AT THE END OF THIS JOB AD. To save our time and your time, PLEASE ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF J2EE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE. Payment upon perfect completion of the milestones. No advance milestone payment only to start working on the project and no drama please. We are looking for a highly skilled and dedicated software developer to help with an integration development of an e-commerce backend system for a new startup business. The work may include but not limited to: - Products and category management module - Integration with supplier product data (through REST API, CSV, API) - Database Design and integration - Shipping and Pricing metrics, Order Management - User access control - and many others Most of the core e-commerce features and payment solutions are already provided by our 3rd party e-commerce platform, so we don't want to re-develop those. More details will be sent to the selected freelancer. In term of timeline, our estimated time for this project is about one month, which we believe is very doable for someone who is experienced and committed. Qualities that we are looking for are as follow: A. TECHNICAL SKILL & EXPERIENCE 1. Excellent skills in Java technology, including: core Java, J2EE, Servlet/JSP, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Hibernate / JPA,, JUnit, and REST API (important) 2. Excellent database design and development skills using MySQL database. 3. Highly experienced in web application development and software architecture, utilising J2EE, Tomcat server, Multi-threading / Executors framework, popular front-end web development suite (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript / JQuery, AJAX) 4. Experienced in working with GIT and Eclipse 5. Very good understanding of software design principles, data structures, algorithms 6. Exposure towards cloud hosting (on Amazon), Background Job Processing (Message Queue), Cache Systems (i.e., Redis / mem-cache) will be highly regarded and will put your application at the top consideration. We need someone with several years of commercial experience to back all of the above skills and we also want to see your portfolio. B. OTHER CRITERIA 1. Great desire to always learn, constantly looking for inspiration, highly motivated and dedicated. 2. Already have a strong portfolio website to showcase your work to us. We may also send you a quick Java test in order to test your skills. 3. Great project management and time management experience. To be considered, we need you to answer the following questions: 1. Describe your experience and how it matches with the above requirements. 2. What motivated you to apply for this project? Why should we choose you? 3. How do you constantly look out for inspiration and how you keep your technical skills up to date? Give us some examples. 4. Are you able to commit at your best in working on this project in order to provide us with your highest quality work? Our timeline estimation for this project is about 1 month so we need someone who can dedicate his/her best time and effort to work on this project. 5. How do you define integrity and how you apply it in your personal and professional life? We look forward to receiving your application. Thanks!