Java Backend Developer Senior Job Listing at SAIC in Ashburn, VA (Job ID 2612914)

Description

Description

SAIC is currently seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Backend Developer (Senior) to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA. 

This position requires on-site work in Ashburn, VA 5 days per week for the first year of employment. 

Job Responsibilities

• Working closely with the tech lead and senior developers, the Mid-Level Java Developer will participate in the system architecture design, systems engineering, development, integration testing and validation, and all aspects of the software life-cycle (requirements to design to implementation to test) for a java backend application involving extensive messaging and transaction processing
• Design and implement Micro Service Architecture for Cloud based software applications.
• Use modern software engineering tools including Eclipse, Jira, and Atlassian Suites for design, development, and testing the software
• Present the solution at formal and informal design reviews, and document the design according to the Government's system lifecycle methodology

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related engineering field with 9+ years of technical experience
• 9+ years of strong Java design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems
• Extensive use of Java hands-on on most recent Job role (such as SW Developer or SW Engineer) or in the last 5 years
• Effective Proficiency usage and Development with JavaEE, Spring, and Springboot relative to Microservices
• Usage of JavaEE supported technology stacks in platforms, such as EKS, Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS, or Weblogic
• Demonstrates capability for Operational Support and Analysis of Delivered Applications to resolve real-time issues
• Demonstrates capability to modify and share code seamlessly via tools such as Maven and Artifactory while communicating its changes effectively to group members for rapid application rollouts
• Ability to diagnose problems and support production systems
• Experience working with Applications on Cloud utilizing serverless hosted services like AWS S3, DynanoDB, lambda etc
• Java Micro Service Architecture frameworks such as Spring Boot
• Experience with container platforms like Docker and Kubernetes
• SQL DBs (preferably Oracle) and strong SQL/JDBC skills is required for this position.
• Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, Document DB, Cassandra etc.
• Messaging and Streaming Systems (Kafka, SQS ans Kinesis)
• XML/JSON
• Unix/Linux
• Experince with JPA/Hibernate
• Experience with building RESTful webservices and experience with query language based APIs like GraphQL.
• Jenkins, Maven, Gitlab and Jira for CI/CD
• Demonstrated expertise in software engineering practices (e.g., reading/generating software specs, design patterns, continuous integration)

• Demonstrated ability to incorporate rigorous Unit testing as part of development activities is essential

  Desired Skills and Experience

• First-hand experience working with large project teams (working with the Federal Government a strong plus)
• Proficient in applying core Java programming skills and using popular 3rd-party libraries to interpret data mappings and organize information for processing large-scale datasets across various representation formats such as relational databases,  NoSQL Databases, XML, JSON, and raw flat files
• Used Java for enterprise applications development involving real time operations
• Proven Java custom framework development for supporting data processing, especially with extremely high-volume Transactional usage
• Usage of real time analysis tools such as Dynatrace to diagnose issues and maintain situational awareness of issues
• Usage of CI/CD tools such as Harness
• Demonstrated ability to think critically and creatively to develop innovative solutions to software problems.
• Ability to develop and maintain components with stringent performance requirements.
• Agile development experience a plus

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field is a plus

  Customer Requirements

• Clearance – Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation
• Citizenship – Must be a US Citizen
• Location – Required to be on-site in Ashburn, VA 5 days per week for the first year of employment. All candidates must be within the GWA/commutable area