Java Backend Developer Senior

SAIC • Ashburn, VA

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

SAIC is currently seeking a motivated, career and customer oriented, and hands on mid-level Java Backend Developer with cloud experience to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA. This position requires you to be on-site in Ashburn, VA 5 days per week for the first year of employment. After their first year, you will have the option to work a hybrid schedule (2 days on-site).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related engineering field with 5+ years of related technical experience.
• At least 5 years of strong Java JEE design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems.
• At least 5 years of working with Applications on Cloud utilizing serverless hosted services like AWS lambda.
• Java 21
• Docker/Kubernetes Container
• SpringBoot Micro Services architecture
• AWS
• XML Message builder & XML parsing
• Postgres DB
• Angular
• Extensive skills in JDBC/JPA/Hibernate and strong SQL skills is required for this position.
• Knowledge of standard design patterns.
• Demonstrated expertise in software engineering practices (e.g., reading/generating software specs, design patterns, continuous integration)
• Gitlab/JIRA/Jenkins for CI/CD
• Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation
• Must be a US Citizen

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field is a plus
• First-hand experience working with large project teams (working with the Federal Government a strong plus)
• 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
• AWS ISTIO
• Spring Scheduler
• IBM MQ and Kafka Queues
• Debugging with AWS Kibana
• Experience with NoSQL DBs like MongoDB, DocumentDB, DynamoDB etc.

Responsibilities

• Participate in system architecture design, 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 develop Java code as dictated by project requirements.
• Work with and mentor junior team members.
• Learn and adhere to continuous integration, automated unit testing and other AGILE practices established within the team using the tools that are currently used by the team.
• Diagnose and fix issues in existing application components as part of maintenance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level