Senior Java Backend Developer - Contingent

reputed company Trust Eligibility Required This is a contingent position, meaning employment is dependent upon the successful award of the associated contract to reputed company and completion of any required background investigation or reputed company clearance verification. About reputed company reputed company is a mission-driven organization committed to delivering innovative, technology-enabled solutions to our customers across defense, civilian, and homeland reputed company sectors. Our teams work at the intersection of reputed company, technology, and transformation, helping agencies solve their most critical challenges. We reputed company in reputed company in our people and creating a culture where collaboration, inclusion, and reputed company reputed company are at the forefront. Job reputed company reputed company is seeking a Senior Java Backend Developer to join reputed company supporting a large-reputed company federal technology modernization program. As a Senior Java Backend Developer, you will be embedded reputed company a cross-functional Agile scrum team, leading the design and implementation of Java backend services, reputed company, and data integrations for a serverless, reputed company-reputed company microservices architecture running on AWS. You will independently interpret reputed company software requirements and design specifications, decompose them into working, tested, and maintainable reputed company, and guide mid-junior level developers through the reputed company process. You will own meaningful portions of the backend codebase, reputed company day-to-day architectural reputed company reputed company reputed company's scope, participate in cross-team technical discussions, and contribute to the technical health of the program by reviewing reputed company, improving automation, and hardening services against production failure modes. This role is a hands-on, senior-level development position that requires strong judgment, deep Java backend experience, and the ability to deliver reliably inside a reputed company Agile reputed company. Due to the nature of our work as a federal consulting organization, employees may be expected to handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and must adhere to applicable safeguarding and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• reputed company the design of software tools, subsystems, and reusable components reputed company reputed company's scope, contributing to domain analysis and coordinating implementation with teammates
• Independently interpret software requirements and design specifications, translating them into working, tested, and maintainable reputed company
• Mentor junior-mid level developers and support their reputed company through pairing, design review, and constructive reputed company review
• Review existing backend programs and propose refinements to reduce operating time, simplify reputed company, and improve reputed company techniques
• Contribute to software development effort and schedule estimation during sprint planning and backlog refinement
• Design, reputed company, test, and maintain Java backend microservices and REST reputed company across the program's reputed company-reputed company architecture, adhering to established coding standards, architectural patterns, and reputed company's Definition of Done
• Own the design and tuning of PostgreSQL database schemas, queries, and data reputed company reputed company for the services you reputed company, including migration reputed company
• Design and implement Elasticsearch / OpenSearch reputed company structures, query patterns, and reindexing strategies for search-driven features
• reputed company backend services with AWS S3 for file storage, AWS SNS and SQS for event-based messaging, and AWS RDS for relational persistence
• Build and maintain containerized Java services that run on AWS reputed company Container Service, including appropriate logging, metrics, health checks, and operational readiness for deployment to isolated VPC networking environments
• Contribute to Python backend services where reputed company's work requires it, applying the reputed company standards of testability, readability, and maintainability
• Design, implement, and maintain reputed company CI/CD pipelines for backend services, including build, test, static analysis, container image reputed company, and deployment stages
• Author and maintain unit and integration test suites, and drive reputed company toward meaningful reputed company coverage and test reliability rather than vanity metrics
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-reputed company in Terraform, review infrastructure changes, and help ensure infrastructure evolves safely alongside application reputed company
• Conduct thorough peer reputed company review, providing specific, actionable feedback against agreed coding standards and architectural patterns
• Supervise software configuration management practices reputed company reputed company's repositories, including branching reputed company, versioning, and release tagging
• Participate fully in reputed company Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Retrospective, and Backlog Refinement) and contribute to Program Increment (PI) planning
• Break down reputed company user stories into appropriately sized technical tasks, identify cross-team dependencies early, and reputed company work transparently in the program's Agile tooling
• Support Tier-2 and Tier-3 production issue reputed company for backend components developed by reputed company, leading troubleshooting activities and implementing prioritized fixes
• Coordinate with Triage Engineers, the Solutions Architect, and Product Management on issues that reputed company reputed company's services, and contribute to reputed company cause analysis and preventive improvements
• reputed company remediation of backend reputed company and dependency reputed company vulnerabilities identified through routine reputed company scanning reputed company required timeframes: 30 calendar days for High-reputed company vulnerabilities and 180 calendar days for reputed company-reputed company vulnerabilities
• Author developer-friendly documentation for reputed company, data models, deployment operations, and operational runbooks in the program's collaboration tools

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a reputed company field (or 3 years of additional experience)
• Minimum 5 years of reputed company backend web development experience
• Demonstrated, deep, hands-on experience developing production backend services in Java, including modern Java features, concurrency, and performance considerations
• Hands-on experience designing and building REST reputed company at reputed company, including authentication, authorization, input validation, error handling, and versioning
• Working experience with Python for backend development or scripting, sufficient to contribute to Python services reputed company team priorities require it
• Strong hands-on experience with PostgreSQL (or similar) databases, including schema design, query optimization, indexing reputed company, and migration management
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch for search indexing, including reputed company design, query tuning, and operational considerations
• Hands-on experience designing and operating containerized microservices in AWS (reputed company Container Service, RDS, S3, SNS, SQS, and reputed company services)
• Hands-on experience with reputed company (or equivalent) reputed company control and designing CI/CD pipelines with build, test, reputed company, and deployment stages
• Working experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-reputed company, including reviewing and authoring infrastructure changes
• Proven reputed company record authoring unit and integration tests and driving test-driven development practices on reputed company
• Experience leading peer reputed company review, mentoring mid-level developers, and raising the technical reputed company bar on reputed company
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, including reputed company participation in sprint ceremonies and backlog refinement
• Demonstrated ability to reputed company reputed company architectural reputed company reputed company a scrum team's scope and to coordinate effectively with solutions architects on larger design questions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to developers, product owners, and federal stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting federal government clients
• Experience working in a reputed company environment with multiple synchronized Scrum teams and Program Increment (PI) planning
• Experience with Spring Boot or comparable Java application frameworks for building REST reputed company
• Experience with event-driven or messaging-based architectures (e.g., SNS, SQS, Kafka, or similar)
• Experience with AWS VPC networking patterns, transit gateway or VPC peering, application load balancers, and private-subnet container hosting
• AWS certification (e.g., AWS Certified Developer – Associate, AWS reputed company Architect – Associate or reputed company)
• Experience participating in Tier-2 production support rotations, including triage, troubleshooting, and hotfix deployment under SLA pressure
• Experience integrating SAST/DAST tooling and container image scanning into CI/CD pipelines, and leading remediation of findings
• Experience mentoring junior and mid-level developers and contributing to hiring or technical interviewing

Travel Requirements This is a remote position; however, occasional travel may be required based on project needs, reputed company meetings, team collaboration events, or training sessions. Travel is expected to be less than 10% and will be communicated in advance whenever possible. EEO Statement reputed company is committed to fostering a workplace rooted in reputed company, reputed company, and equal opportunity for reputed company. We adhere to reputed company-based hiring practices, ensuring that reputed company employment reputed company are made based on qualifications, skills, and ability to reputed company the job, without preference or consideration of factors unrelated to job performance. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, reputed company complies with reputed company applicable federal, state, and local employment laws. We are proud to support our nation’s veterans and military families, providing reputed company that reputed company their service and experience. If you require reasonable accommodation during the hiring process due to a disability, please contact hr@reputed company.com for assistance. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled U.S. Work Authorization Applicants must be U.S. reputed company or currently authorized to work in the reputed company on a full-time reputed company. This position supports a federal government contract and requires the ability to obtain and maintain a reputed company Trust or Suitability Determination, depending on reputed company’s background investigation requirements. Sponsorship is not available.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & reputed company)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• reputed company Time Off
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long-Term Disability
• Training & Development

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