Junior Software Developer

CGI•Lafayette, LA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

CGI is seeking an enthusiastic, creative, junior SW developer to join a high-performing Agile team in designing and building modern, services-based web applications for a large government agency. Our team is using a modern development stack and various additional open-source technologies. You will have the opportunity to help build and modernize the system applications for cloud deployment. Grow your leadership and technical skills with in-demand technologies in a fast-paced environment as part of an exciting, positive team that moves quickly and delivers quality software alongside a passionate customer. This position is located in our Lafayette, LA or Knoxville, TN office, however, a hybrid working model is acceptable.

Requirements

Worked in Agile environment
Demonstrated understanding and at least 2 years of work experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Java (frontend and backend) development.
Experience with various AI paired programming tooling
Exposure to a modern Java software development environment and tools such as Maven, Git, Tomcat, Eclipse, Bamboo, Hibernate, etc.
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or other similar technologies.
Positive, can-do attitude, and desire to contribute in various means to team success.
Confident communication skills with both internal team members as well as customers.
Ability to work independently as well as within a dynamic team environment on development tasks and continuously deliver quality code for team review and product owner demonstration.
Ability to quickly research, learn, and apply emerging technologies within the software development industry.

Nice To Haves

Development - Java / JEE, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Spring - REST JAX-RS, Web Services, Security, Controllers/Service, Spring Data ORM (Hibernate/JPA 2), JSON
AWS Serverless Services – SQS, SNS, SES, Step, Lambda
AWS Analytics – Glue, Redshift, EMR, OpenSearch, Athena, Sagemaker, Quicksight
Event Streaming - Kafka
Web Server – Apache, Application Server – Jboss EAP
Open Source Frameworks - various includes e.g. commons-, ehcache, velocity, aopalliance, mail, swagger, etc.
User authentication and authorization - ForgeRock's OpenAM, SecureAuth and Okta.
UI/UX – Angular, Bootstrap
Databases – AWS RDS for Oracle and PostgreSQL
Log Management – DataDog
Alerts and Monitoring - Datadog, Google Analytics, New Relic
CICD - Jenkins, SonarQube, Nexus, Selenium
Load Testing – Jmeter
Code Mgmt: Git, GitHub
tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket, SourceTree, etc.)
Consulting experience
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical discipline preferred.

Responsibilities

As a junior software developer, you will help define and code the ongoing architecture and development of an emerging application
Confidently code and organize the application using best practices while helping to share their knowledge with the team and grow the teams' skills and understanding of robust Java applications.
Participate in all phases of an Agile software development lifecycle, including application design/requirements gathering, estimating development activities, authoring application code, participating in code reviews, and testing the software.
Authoring and reviewing web application - using AI paired programming techniques - code in Angular, Java, JavaScript, etc.
Deploying application to Kubernetes
Base understanding of data structures (document form, JSON/YAML), problem solving, algorithm design and analysis
Extensive use of the Spring Framework: Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Data, etc.
Gaining experience in RESTful systems - specifically relating to API designs
Participating in daily team discussions and code collaboration to promote continuous progress
Participating in client, industry, and end-user discussions to help provide technical viewpoint on the application.
Participating in technical design sessions to create sustainable, high-performing features and providing accurate estimates and development timelines.
Continuous improvement of existing development tools and technologies
Authoring automated testing script for the application
Augmenting and improving system architecture
Gaining a general understanding of database design and optimizing application access to backend data